Sally Jessy Raphael pᴀssed a major milestone as she celebrated her 90th birthday on Tuesday.

The TV icon posed for a rare snap as she began the celebration over the weekend before jaunting off for a girls trip to Paris with friends. 

‘I had a wonderful birthday brunch this weekend with some of my favorite friends and family,’ the former talk show host told People. 

‘They kept saying, “We can’t believe you’re 90!” I told them to stop reminding me, because I certainly don’t feel it!’

The Emmy winner marked the day with family and friends, including her grandsons Max, 29, and Kyle, 23, before jetting off. 

‘Took the red eye last night to Paris for a birthday girls’ trip, and look what the airline gave me as a little gift! J’adore,’ Raphael wrote on a social media post showing some yummy treats to the camera and tagging Jet Blue. 

Sally Jessy Raphael pᴀssed a major milestone as she celebrated her 90th birthday on Tuesday 

 Raphael, known for her red glᴀsses, made history in 1983 as the first woman to host an audience-participation talk show, with her Sally Jessy Raphael Show  (Pictured circa 1990)

Another snap shows her taking in the City of Lights from her H๏τel balcony. 

‘Ah, Paris… it’s so good to be back!’ the feisty redhead penned next to the pic.

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Raphael. known for her trademark red glᴀsses, made history in 1983 as the first woman to host an audience-participation, issue-drive talk show, with her own Sally Jessy Raphael Show.

She was on air for three years before Oprah Winfrey, who had her own beloved talk show, hit the airwaves, covering human interest stories and current affairs. 

She won a Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host in 1989. 

The show, known later as Sally, won a Daytime Emmy in 1990 for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series. 

However, as the compeтιтion increased for ratings against compeтιтors such and Maury Povich and Jerry Springer in the 1990s, the program began focusing on more unsavory topics, such as revealing the results of paternity tests on air.   

‘The last years of doing those Maury Povich/Jerry Springer shows? I hated them,’ Raphael said on a 2016 episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now?

On Tuesday, the Emmy winner shared a pH๏τo from her H๏τel balcony. ‘Ah, Paris… it’s so good to be back!’ she wrote

Raphael has remained active, hosting a radio show on Talknet from 2005-2008, a Logo series in 2014 and most recently making a cameo appearance on the animated Every Still Hates Christ in 2024   (Pictured in Brooklyn, NY in October 2013) 

‘I was betrayed by some of the producers into doing that. Come to think of it, I should have fought harder for what I knew what right — what I knew that I didn’t want to do,’ she told Winfrey. 

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Sally was cancelled in 2002, but the media personality was not ready to hang up her glᴀsses, and hosted the daily Sally Jessy Raphael radio show on Talknet from 2005-2008.

in 2014, she hosted the Logo series Sally Jessy Rides and in 2024, make a cameo appearance on the animated series Everybody Still Hates Chris. 

In an appearance on Sherri Shepherd’s talk show Sherri in May 2024, Raphael revealed she and former members of her staff still get together. ‘We like to drink!’ adding, ‘Well, there has to be a reason for a reunion.’