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==Game Show Hosting Career==
==Game Show Hosting Career==
Philbin started his hosting career in a show called ''The Neighbors'', a short-lived 1975-1976 show where a woman had to guess which of her three female neihbors was [[gossip]]ing about her. Philbin would have much more success in 1999 by hosting the American version of the popular British game show ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire'', where contestants answer fifteen multiple-choice questions with the amount of money escalating after every question with only two safe havens to one million dollars. The show went into syndication after Philbin's primetime show was canceled with new host Merideth Viera. Philbin also hosted the first season of ''America's Got Talent'', where a contestant would have to impress three judges with an act in hopes to win a million dollars and a [[Las Vegas]]
Philbin started his hosting career in a show called ''The Neighbors'', a short-lived 1975-1976 show where a woman had to guess which of her three female neihbors was [[gossip]]ing about her. Philbin would have much more success in 1999 by hosting the American version of the popular British game show ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire'', where contestants answer fifteen multiple-choice questions with the amount of money escalating after every question with only two safe havens to one million dollars. The show went into syndication after Philbin's primetime show was canceled with new host Merideth Viera. Philbin also hosted the first season of ''America's Got Talent'', where a contestant would have to impress three judges with an act in hopes to win a million dollars and a [[Las Vegas]]
headline show, beofre being replaced by [[Jerry Springer]] and later [[Nick Cannon]]. He also hosted ''Million Dollar Password'', where a contestant would pair up with a celebrity guessing word clues against another contestant/celebrity pair, revivng a series of older ''Password'' shows.
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