Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79

Springer’s show at one point was more popular than Oprah.

(Richard Drew | AP file photo) Talk show host Jerry Springer speaks in New York on April 15, 2010. Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died. He was 79. A family spokesperson died Thursday at home in suburban Chicago.

| April 27, 2023, 3:47 p.m.

Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79

Springer’s show at one point was more popular than Oprah.

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