Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel did not hold back while discussing their thoughts on ex-Live host Regis Philbin and his drama with the hit show.<br /><br />On the Monday, October 21 episode of his Sirius XM show, the Shock Jock brought up ABC’s talk show, Live with Kelly and Ryan.<br /><br />“Don't you think they should have Regis on that show once a year at least? I don't understand why they don't,” Stern questioned.<br /><br />“Why the abandonment?” co-host Robin Quivers asked.<br /><br />“Why the abandonment?” Stern, 65, echoed.<br /><br />“You think he still wants to be on?” Kimmel, 51, asked.<br /><br />“Yes, I do,” Stern replied. “I think he would've liked to at least be associated in some way with the show and remind people that he's the guy who started that whole thing.”<br /><br />RadarOnline.com readers know Philbin, 88, founded Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee in 1988.<br /><br />When Kathie Lee Gifford left in 2001, he remained as co-host and executive producer to what then became Live with Regis and Kelly.<br /><br />Philbin was eventually ousted in 2011, but the show went on without him.<br /><br />Kelly Ripa stayed on, and in 2017, Ryan Seacrest was brought in as her co-anchor. The show is now called Live with Kelly and Ryan.<br /><br />his feud with Ripa.<br /><br />When asked if the two still kept in touch, he candidly replied: “Not really, no.”<br /><br />“Never once did they ask me to go back,” he added, despite the fact that he hosted the daytime talk show for 28 years.<br /><br />“She got very offended when I left. She thought I was leaving because of her,” Philbin said of Ripa. “I was leaving because I was getting older, and it wasn’t right for me anymore.”<br /><br />At the time, Philbin was also asked if he would ever make a Live! comeback.<br /><br />“I don’t know. How often would it be? Would it be every night? Every day?” Philbin said. “I do miss it. There are times when I really miss it, and wish I’d never stopped. But, you know, I just figured it was time to let go.”<br /><br />But as Radar exclusively reported earlier this year, Philbin has been asking Gifford, 66, to caught avoiding him at a star-studded cocktail party in 2017.
