Jerry Springer died in 2023, at the age 79. His legacy lives on through “The Jerry Springer Show”. His controversial tabloid show began airing in 1991 and lasted until 2018. From 2019 to 2022 he hosted “Judge Jerry”, a television courtroom program, but this was not the talk show that made his name. The HBO show, “Hollywood Demons,” dedicated an episode to the “Jerry Springer Show” and revealed some of the secrets behind-the scenes.
The segment that made one producer quit ‘The Jerry Springer Show
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The “Jerry Springer Show” featured a segment titled “Secrets Revealed”, in which guests invited a friend to the show and asked them to reveal their secret live in front of an audience. Former associate producer Houston Curtis quit the show because of a segment like this.
In 1994, an episode entitled “Surprise!” was aired on the show. I’m a Drag Queen. In “Hollywood Demons,” Curtis remembered how a son had a “surprise” for his mother. Curtis described her as “the sweetest, little old lady from Alabama.”
It was very wrong and it felt horrible
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“I told her that your son had a surprise in store for you and he wanted to share it on The Jerry Springer Show,” Curtis said, according to Entertainment Weekly. The show paid for her flight to Chicago, a nice hotel room, and a limo ride to the show.
During the show her adult son who was in his early or late 40s came out dressed as a “drag queen” and sang a song he wrote for her. “All the lyrics were written bashing his mom, who was, to my knowledge, the sweetest person that I had ever booked on the program. She just sat with class and integrity and took it all,” Curtis remembered.
Curtis went backstage after the segment to check on the woman. He said she cried in his arms. “I was a young man in my 20s at the time, but I knew it was wrong. He recalled that it was wrong and felt terrible. “That night I called Burt Dubrow, [the show’s producer] and told him, ‘Burt I quit. ‘”
Curtis Reveals how ‘The Jerry Springer Show” encouraged fights
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The fights were a huge boost to the ratings of the show. It quickly became one of the most watched talk shows in history. Curtis revealed they used sneaky tactics to encourage fights between guests to boost ratings.
“Let’s imagine that I have two brothers who are in conflict. When you are preparing the guests, tell one of them: “If your brother says something that you don’t agree with, you can yell, you could get up in their face, or you could even spit at him. Curtis explained, “But whatever you do, never hit him.” “And you don’t tell the person anything about that.”
“Once you get one person up and spit on someone’s face and then you don’t give any instructions to the other, the other will haul off and knock out the hell of the one who did that, and boom, there’s a fight,” added he.
Jerry Springer Has Passed After a Brief Battle with Pancreatic Cancer
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According to PEOPLE magazine the talk-show host who served as mayor of Cincinnati in 1970s passed away at his Chicago home after a “brief” illness. Jene Galvin, a close friend and spokesperson for the Springer family, told NBC News Springer died of pancreatic cancer.
Rabbi Sandford Kopnick, of Cincinnati’s The Valley Temple, told PEOPLE Springer’s illness was “sudden,” adding that “he died of cancer and he had cancer for a very short time.”
He described Springer as a “kind and generous person” who was not portrayed well on his show. He also called Springer “very smart,” adding that he “was a remarkable man who understood the meaning of paying it forward.”
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