Jerry Springer, 79, passed away. The former politician became famous for his outrageous television talk programs.
According to his publicists, the renowned host of The Jerry Springer Show, who presided over it for over 30 years, departed peacefully on Thursday. Jerry Springer's cause of death was disclosed by his family.
Jene Galvin, a friend of Springer's and the family spokeswoman, said in a statement that Jerry Springer was "irreplaceable" because of his capacity for human connection, which was the cornerstone of his success in various fields, including television and politics, per the BBC.
His family disclosed Jerry Springer's cause of death, saying that just a few months before his peaceful death at his Chicago home, the renowned TV presenter had received a cancer diagnosis, according to the Daily Mail. Jerry Springer's health condition has since become worse.
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One of A Kind TV Show Host
After serving as Cincinnati's 56th mayor in the 1970s, Jerry Springer turned his attention to television. He rose to fame as the host of the iconic talk program The Jerry Springer Show, which ran from 1991 to 2018 for 28 seasons. After his chat show ended, he made an appearance in Judge Jerry, a reality TV series.
Thirty years after the premiere of The Jerry Springer Show, Springer jokingly said that it was his first "grown-up job," according to People.
Jerry Springer humorously identified himself as the "Talk show host, ringmaster of civilization's end," and his audience would cheer his name during the show's outrageous confronts and slur-filled quarrels that were often censored.
Despite Springer's description of it as "escapist entertainment," several detractors said the program encouraged a deterioration of American societal standards. Jerry Springer would joke around with people and say he hoped they would never have to come on his show.
The Jerry Springer Show gained so much popularity in the 1990s that in certain areas, it even outperformed Oprah Winfrey's program.
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