BY ZAYDA RIVERA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 12:27 PM
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JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE/GETTY IMAGESDr. Phil McGraw spoke to Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night about Bruce Jenner’s alleged gender transition and joked the former Olympian may be past his prime.
Is Bruce Jenner too old for gender transition? Dr. Phil McGraw seems to think so.
While discussing Jenner's highly anticipated two-hour special with Diane Sawyer, which airs Friday, Jimmy Kimmel asked Dr. Phil if he was heartbroken he didn't get the interview.
"It would be boring to talk to me about that," the famed TV doctor told Kimmel on Wednesday night. "First off I would say, 'Look if it's what you want to do, do it. I mean, what the hell does it matter what anybody else thinks.'"
The audience applauded him for that before he pointed out the age of the 65-year-old "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" as a possible roadblock for his gender transition.
"That'd be the first 30 seconds and then I guess we'd spend the next hour and 59 minutes saying ,'You're almost 80, what's the point?'" Dr. Phil joked.
"This is a theoretical exercise, right?" he continued, alluding to his sexual prime. "He's kind of like past the prime for like … right?"
The late night talk show host quickly jumped to Jenner's defense.
"You know he's an Olympic gold medalist so I wouldn't put anything past him, I mean he may be a champion in the bed as well," Kimmel said.
Jenner has been married three times, and has six biological children and four stepchildren, so he's been pretty successful with the ladies.
In fact, his high school sweetheart and prom date, Michelle Rosenthal, opened up to "Inside Edition" about the Jenner she knew all those years ago.
"We danced close, we did kiss. He seemed to enjoy it," she said of their prom night.
"I would never have thought that in a million years, knowing him from school," she continued, referring to news that he's set to come out as transgender. "When it came out in the paper that he was thinking of this, I think everyone was really shocked."
Rosenthal remembers Jenner as a "happy-go-lucky, nice guy" who was "friendly with everybody."
Dr. Phil agreed, telling Kimmel that Jenner is a "hell of a nice guy."
"Speaking of nice guy," Kimmel said, turning the focus back on his guest. "Dr. Phil accepts no money for his show. He just does it to help people. I admire that so much."
"Thank you for acknowledging that," Dr. Phil said, adding, "I do get my own parking spot."
