Jerry Springer, the longtime TV personality best known for his raucous show, has died aged 79. LaurenTomasi 9News MORE:
In a "Too Hot For TV" video released as his daily show neared 7 million viewers in the late 1990s, Springer offered a defence against disgust.
He also contended that the people on his show volunteered to be subjected to whatever ridicule or humiliation awaited them. He studied political science at Tulane University and got a law degree from Northwestern University. He was active in politics much of his adult life, mulling a run for governor of Ohio as recently as 2017.Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Springer greets supporters at a rally on Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 3, 1982.
Then 30, he had married Micki Velton the previous year. The couple had a daughter, Katie, and divorced in 1994. "With all the joking I do with the show, I'm fully aware and thank God every day that my life has taken this incredible turn because of this silly show," Springer toldWell in advance of Donald Trump's political rise from reality TV stardom, Springer mulled a Senate run in 2003 that he surmised could draw on "nontraditional voters", people "who believe most politics are bull".
"I have no other motivation but to say I love this country," Springer said to a Democratic gathering in 2003.show in 2019 and continued to speak out on whatever was on his mind in a podcast, but his power to shock had dimmed in the new era of reality television and combative cable TV talk shows.
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