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Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman Springer was a British-American broadcaster, television host, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show from 1991 to 2018. Noted as a pioneer in the emergence of "trash TV", his eponymous show was a "commercial smash and certifiable cultural phenomenon" in the 1990s.
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Born 13 February 1944 · Died 27 April 2023 · Q27214
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The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.
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Showbiz is a job. I never take it too seriously. I work hard, but I never pretend it’s life or death. I’m just incredibly lucky.
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review – a remarkable look at the trashiest TV of all time
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Netflix released the documentary series Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Rage, chair-throwing and sleepless nights: behind the scenes of The Jerry Springer Show
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2023· 13 entries
Published video “A Celebration of the Life of Jerry Springer”.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Jerry Springer Left All His Money And Likeness To His Black Children” Performance.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In May 2023, Jerry Springer left his entire estate to two secret biracial children he had out of wedlock.” False.
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The Guardian: ‘Jerry was freaked out’ – the writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera on their showdown
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A video authentically depicts daytime television talk show host Jerry Springer, who died on April 27, 2023, once saying he didn’t watch his own show.” True.
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The Guardian: A look back at the career of TV host Jerry Springer – video obituary
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The Guardian: Jerry Springer: the man who changed US television for better and worse
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The Guardian: Jerry Springer Show: his most outrageous TV moments
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The Guardian: Jerry Springer, influential US talkshow host, dies aged 79
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Died 2023-04-27.
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“The bias against the show is purely elitist. We’re all like the people on the show – the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There’s nothing that happens on my show that rich people don’t experience.”
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“The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.”
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“Showbiz is a job. I never take it too seriously. I work hard, but I never pretend it’s life or death. I’m just incredibly lucky.”
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2022· 5 entries
Published video “Ep 358”.
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Published video “Episode 356”.
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The series was canceled after three seasons with its final episode airing on August 22, 2022
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Springer died of pancreatic cancer on April 27, 2023, at the age of 79
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Springer competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Beetle"
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2021· 1 entry
Published video “The Jerry Springer Podcast”.
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: How The Jerry Springer Show splashed around in humanity’s worst excesses
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2019· 6 entries
Published video “Episode 205: Democratic Candidates Won't Debate on Fox News”.
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Published video “Episode 204: Pelosi Says Trump Not Worth Impeaching”.
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Published video “Episode 203: WHITE SUPREMACIST COAST GUARD OFFICER PLANNED TERRORIST ATTACK”.
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Published video “Episode 202: COULD TRUMP STILL SKATE AFTER THE MUELLER REPORT?”.
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Published video “Episode 201: Democratic Socialists and the Democratic Party”.
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Published video “EP 200: JERRY’S TAKE ON THE VIRGINIA BLACKFACE SCANDAL”.
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2018· 2 entries
Jerry Springer aired its final episode in syndication after 27 seasons, before it began airing reruns on The CW on September 10
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The Guardian: Farewell to The Jerry Springer Show: 27 years of fights, bleeps and outrage
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2016· 2 entries
2017 and 2018, he guest hosted three episodes of the BBC One's early-evening talk show The One Show with Welsh TV host Alex Jones
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Springer voiced support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election
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2014· 3 entries
In an attempt to conduct an intervention with The Bella Twins
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The Guardian: Jerry Springer: 'We had a holocaust before anyone had a television set'
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Through the Keyhole in 2015, and QI ("Noodles") in 2017
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2010· 1 entry
At Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa
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2009· 2 entries
The Guardian: Q&A: Jerry Springer on crying at chick flicks
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Springer appeared as a guest on the British game show Countdown
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2008· 2 entries
The Guardian: TV ratings - August 27: 6.5m watch Jerry Springer trace his roots
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Springer delivered a commencement address at Northwestern University School of Law, his alma mater
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2007· 2 entries
Signed on to host Nothing But the Truth, the UK version of the Colombian game show Nada más que la verdad
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Springer also cameoed in a handful of episodes of the George Lopez Show
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2006· 2 entries
Springer was the guest host for the third-season premiere of The Friday Night Project for Channel 4 and guest hosted Have I Got News for You on December 12, 2008
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Springer donated $230,000 to Park School in Evanston, where his daughter worked as an assistant teacher, to help construct a high-tech facility called "Katie's Corner" for students with disabilities
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2005· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jerry Springer signs for ITV... but there won't be any fights
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A UK version of the show aired on Britain's ITV network, titled The Springer Show
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2004· 2 entries
Springer was featured in an episode of This American Life titled "Leaving the Fold"
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Played the US president in The Defender, directed by Dolph Lundgren
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2002· 1 entry
The sons of guest Nancy Campbell-Panitz, who was murdered by her ex-husband after they appeared on a May 2000 episode with his girlfriend, filed suit in Sarasota County, Florida, against Springer, his producers, and his
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2001· 1 entry
Was the host of the UK version of Greed, and a stand in host for The Wright Stuff
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2000· 1 entry
And 2004, but backed down due to negative associations with his broadcasting career
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1998· 1 entry
Voiced a cartoon version of himself in the "Starship Poopers" segment of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror IX"
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1997· 2 entries
Springer appeared on an episode of the first season of The Steve Harvey Show, playing himself waiting at the airport alongside Harvey's character and his students
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The Chicago-based NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV hired Springer to serve as a news commentator
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1996· 1 entry
Appeared on an episode of the ninth season of Roseanne and on The X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus"
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1995· 1 entry
Springer recorded the album Dr
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1994· 1 entry
A spokesperson said they were still married at the time of his death
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1981· 1 entry
Springer stepped down from his seat on the City Council to focus on seeking the Democratic nomination in the 1982 Ohio gubernatorial election
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1977· 2 entries
Springer was chosen by the City Council to serve for one year as mayor, which was not a separately-elected position at the time
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Career landmark: Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1977–1978).
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1975· 1 entry
Career landmark: Cincinnati City Council member (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Resigned from the council after admitting to soliciting a prostitute; however, he ran for the office again in 1975 and won by a landslide
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: Cincinnati City Council member (1971–1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Springer ran to represent Ohio's 2nd congressional district, then based in Cincinnati, in the United States House of Representatives
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1968· 1 entry
Studied at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Juris Doctor (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts (1965).
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1944· 2 entries
In the London Underground's Highgate station while the station was in use as a shelter from German bombing during World War II
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Born 1944-02-13.
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