Kimmel to sub for Philbin

Kimmel to sub for Philbin

LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel is going bicoastal. The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will fill in for a vacationing Regis Philbin on “Live with Regis and Kelly” in New York while still hosting his namesake show from Los Angeles. During the week of Oct. 22, Kimmel will fly back and forth across the country daily, co-hosting with Kelly Ripa in New York each morning and taping his own show in Los Angeles each night. That’s two cross-country flights a day for five days. The cross-country element adds spice to the show, he said. “For whatever we lose from not being able to prepare for a long time, I think we’ll gain in stories and stunts as it happens,” he said.

Hasselbeck to take leave

NEW YORK — Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” will go on maternity leave next month, a show spokesman said Saturday. Hasselbeck, 30, will leave the popular New York-based daytime talk show beginning Nov. 8 or 9, spokesman Karl Nilsson confirmed. Various celebrity guests will fill in for her while she is on leave, he said. Hasselbeck, who was a contestant on the reality show “Survivor: The Australian Outback,” is pregnant with her second child. She’s married to NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, who was recently released by the New York Giants and played at Boston College, where the two met. They have a 2-year-old daughter named Grace. Hasselbeck announced her pregnancy in April.

Today’s birthdays

Jazz musician Freddy Cole is 76. Singer Barry McGuire is 72. Actress Linda Lavin is 70. Actress-director Penny Marshall is 65. Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 65. Singer-musician Richard Carpenter is 61. Actor Victor Banerjee is 61. Tennis player Roscoe Tanner is 56. Singer Tito Jackson is 54. Actor Jere Burns is 53. Actress Tanya Roberts is 52. Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 48. Chef Emeril Lagasse is 48. Rock musician Mark Reznicek is 45. Actor Dominic West is 38. Singer Eric Benet is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ginuwine is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Keyshia Cole is 26. Actor Vincent Martella (“Everybody Hates Chris”) is 15.