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As for the "star" status, doesn't really bother me either. One that DID always bother me was, on "Hollywood Squares", when Shadoe would say, "And STARRING Whoopi Goldberg, with Tom Bergeron your host!"...umm, there's only eight other celebrities who could be deserving of that title as well...
Didn't the Vegas version of HS have a similar intro "And starring PAUL LYNDE with Peter Marshall" or something like that? I know someone posted an audio of the intro from the short lived Vegas run of HS.
Another interesting billing, in terms of hosts, was Monty's for the 90s LMAD "and now here's your special guest host, the big dealer himself, Monty Hall!"
Most of us know it was Monty's intention to find another host to replace Hilton, which in an American Archive interview, he said he HATED to do. I know I am going off topic a little, but Monty said that the producers of "Hello Larry" did NOT want Mc.Lean Stevenson, but Mc.Lean was under contract at NBC and in order to "sell the show", they reluctantly got Mc.Lean to star. (Hello Larry also featured Monty's Daughter Joanna Gleason). Just the same, Monty had to "sell" LMAD by taking back the reins himself.