With the publication of their book What Makes Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life in 2020, Donahue and Marlo Thomas commemorated nearly 40 years of marriage.
In 2002, following the conclusion of his lengthy program, Donahue made a brief comeback to television with a show on MSNBC.
During the Cold War, he also co-hosted an avant-garde television discussion series in the 1980s with Soviet journalist Vladimir Posner.
Furthermore, Donahue co-directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Body of War in 2006.
Donahue’s five children from a previous marriage—four sons and a daughter—remain. According to NBC.
His family has asked for donations to the Phil Donahue/Notre Dame Scholarship Fund or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in place of flowers.
