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POSTED: Friday, June 17, 2011, 11:00 AM

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Drescher and her gay ex-husband

Christopher Seybert dishes on the week's best and worst moments in daytime talk.

Fran Drescher, the Beard

What do Fran Drescher, Liza Minnelli, and Katie Holmes (allegedly!) have in common? They have all unknowingly married gay men. Fran Drescher has created a new television series based on this unfortunate happenstance called Happily Divorced. She was on The View Tuesday to promote it.

Drescher married her high school sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson, in 1978 and they divorced 21 years later. After the divorce, Peter came out and they have remained best friends. For comedic purposes, the show is a little different than her real life situation, but one question remains: How did she not know? She said in hindsight there were obvious clues — like his meticulous attention to her appearance — but she always attributed it to "metrosexuality." So ladies, if you find yourself in a similar situation, remember you’re not losing a husband; you’re gaining someone who can dress you for the rest of your life!

Someone’s Older than Reeg?

When Kelly Ripa’s away, the oldies will play! The incomparable Betty White was Regis’ co-host on Live! with Regis and Kelly Tuesday. They proved that age (Regis is 79, Betty 89) is just a number because that morning they were the wittiest duo on TV.

The ‘Host Chat’ segment, where the hosts adlib for about 15 minutes, separates the amateurs from the pros and showed that these two have learned a thing or two after being in show business for over 50 years. From White saying that she framed Anthony Weiner’s infamous Twitpic and turned down the role of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, to their mutual disdain for modern technology and digs at Lebron James, these two were on fire. And when Regis told Betty she had it all, referencing her longevity of work, she was quick to correct him saying that she still has it. Yes you do Betty, yes you do!

Sophie’s Tatum’s Choice

To fix your relationship with your father on or off camera … that was the choice Tatum O’Neal was faced with when Oprah offered her and Ryan O’Neal a docu-series on OWN. Ok let’s face it, there is no such thing as a choice when the Big O is involved, so of course Tatum and Ryan signed on for Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals. Tatum stopped by The Gayle King Show to talk about it.

It’s no surprise that this father-daughter relationship is tumultuous with issues like alcohol and drug abuse, estrangement and neglect making front page headlines for years. Since Farrah Fawcett’s death in 2009, Tatum wanted to patch things up with her dad but revealed that he would only do it if the cameras were rolling. On that note alone reconciliation doesn’t sound promising, but you can't say never when Oprah’s involved.

(christopher.seybert@citypaper.net)

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