“He let everyone into his life,” Joy Philbin and their daughters Jennifer and Joanna tell PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “He turned every little daily annoyance and happiness into a ...

"He became more and more reliant on Joy as the years went on," Kathie Lee Gifford says of Regis Philbin, who died July 24 Emily Strohm is a Senior Editor at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE for 11 ...

Philbin had four children: daughters J.J. Philbin and Joanna Philbin, whom he shared with his wife of 50 years, Joy Philbin, and daughter Amy Philbin and son Daniel Philbin, whom he shared with ...