Jerry Springer, TV talk show host, cause of death revealed

LEADING THE WAY. BUT YOU’VE GIVEN US THAT WONDERFUL THOUGHT OF. YOU WROTE TO ME YESTERDAY. YOU KNOW HOW YOU ALWAYS END YOUR BROADCAST. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. AND EACH OTHER. YEAH. IT’S A WONDERFUL THOUGHT. ALL RIGHT. CERTAINLY THE RIGHT AND DECENT WAY TO LIVE. BUT YOU SEE, I DIDN’T MAKE IT UP. YOU DID. LONG BEFORE HIS NAME WAS KNOWN ACROSS NATIONAL AIRWAVES, HE WAS A NEWSMAN, POLITICIAN AND AN ATTORNEY. FORMER CINCINNATI MAYOR. TALK SHOW HOST AND WTTW ANCHOR JERRY SPRINGER, SADLY HAS DIED. SO MANY OF YOU WAKING UP TO THAT NEWS OR GETTING IT WHILE YOU WERE AT WORK TODAY. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT 4:00. I’M SHEREE PAOLELLO AND I’M ASHLEY KIRKLEN. A FAMILY SPOKESPERSON FOR SPRINGER CONFIRMED HIS DEATH TO US THIS MORNING. HE DIED AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO AT THE AGE OF 79. YOU KNOW, DESPITE THE NOTORIETY THAT FOLLOWED THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW, CINCINNATI KNEW A DIFFERENT MAN THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD. THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. ONE OF THE MEN WHO KNOWS HIS CAREER BEST IS OUR VERY OWN JOHN LONDON HERE IN THE STUDIO TODAY. AND AS SOON AS HE WALKED IN, I SAID, HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY? BECAUSE I KNOW HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A COWORKER. HE WAS HE WAS A FRIEND. AND AS SOMEONE WHO COVERED HIM, YOU KNOW, WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG POLITICIAN AND THEN WHO, OF COURSE, WORKED WITH HIM HERE AT CHANNEL FIVE WHEN WE WERE DOWN AT NINTH AND ELM. I CAN TELL YOU THERE ARE TWO THREADS ABOUT HIM THAT WERE CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT ALL THOSE YEARS. HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT THE WORK HE DID AND NEVER TOOK HIMSELF TOO SERIOUS, AUTHENTIC, EASY HUMOR WAS A PART OF HIS PERSONA. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING ABOUT SPRINGER TODAY IS HOW GENUINELY CHARMING HE WAS IN ANY SETTING. SOMEONE WHO WAS LIKE A HUMAN MAGNET WHEN HE ENTERED A ROOM, CLOSE FRIEND GENE GALVIN REMARKED THIS AFTERNOON THAT HUMOR AND A FRIENDLY MANNER CAME BY WAY OF INSTINCT WITH SPRINGER. HE JUST HAD THAT IN HIM. GALVIN, DESCRIBING IT AS ELITE LEVEL COLLECTIBILITY PART OF WHAT MADE HIM SUCCESSFUL IN POLITICS WHEN HE WAS MAYOR AND BROADCAST WHEN HE ANCHORED THE NEWS HERE AND AT AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL AS A TALK SHOW HOST, SPRINGER WAS IN TOWN TWO MONTHS AGO TO BE PART OF A ROAST FOR FORMER SHERIFF, JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR SALES AND FOR CHANNEL FIVE 75TH BIRTHDAY AND SPOKE LOVINGLY AT THAT TIME ABOUT THIS CITY. HERE’S PART OF WHAT HE SAID AFTER I STARTED THE INTERVIEW BY ASKING HOW IT FEELS TO BE OLDER THAN THE STATION. NO, I WELL, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE OLD? BUT 75 YEARS OF THE GREAT HISTORY OF THIS STATION AND TO BE A PART OF ITS HISTORY, I GOT TO TELL YOU, A SOME OF THE FAVORITE YEARS OF MY LIFE HAVE BEEN. YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS HERE DOING THE NEWS, WHEREVER I GO, WHEREVER I TRAVEL, PEOPLE IDENTIFY ME AS CINCINNATI. THEY’LL JUST, YOU KNOW, HEY, YOU KNOW, I’LL BE DOING A SHOW SOMEPLACE. CINCINNATI. WHO? DAY, WHO DAY. YOU KNOW, IT’S IT’S IN MY BLOOD. IT REALLY IS. I’M NOT TRYING TO BE CORNY ABOUT IT. I LOVE THIS PLACE. I LOVE THIS STATION. I OWE IT EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW, THERE COULD HAVE BEEN LOTS OF REASONS THAT PEOPLE TURNED AGAINST ME AND CHANNEL FIVE SAID, HERE YOU GO. YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE PACKAGE. WE ACCEPT YOU AND AND, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE THAT BLESSING IN LIFE. SO IT’S GREAT. I LOVE IT. THE CITY MANAGER ORDERED CITY FLAGS LOWERED TO HALF STAFF TODAY. WHETHER ONE EMBRACED HIS POLITICS OR CONDEMNED THEM. SPRINGER’S IMPRINT AND IMPACT ON CINCINNATI UNDENIABLE. AND OF COURSE, I REMEMBER A LOT OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD HIM TALK ABOUT IN THERE. I’M JUST GOING TO SAY, IS THERE ONE MOMENT THAT YOU JUST WHEN YOU GOT THE NEWS TODAY, IS THERE ONE MEMORY THAT THAT YOU REMEMBER ABOUT HIM AND YOU’LL NEVER FORGET? WELL, I MEAN, THERE’S YOU KNOW, THERE’S IT’S SORT OF UNLIMITED, REALLY, IN A WAY. JERRY WAS THE KIND OF GUY I MEAN, EVERY DAY IN THE NEWSROOM WHEN I WAS WORKING IN THE NEWSROOM, YOU YOU’D BE DRAWN TO HIM AND HE WOULD ALWAYS BE GIVING SOMETHING BACK TO YOU, USUALLY WITH WITH A GREAT DEAL OF HUMOR AND AND A LOT OF WISDOM. HE WAS A VERY SMART FELLOW. HE REALLY WAS. WASN’T HE? I THAT’S THE ONE THING I WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO PEOPLE, LISTEN, WHETHER YOU LOVE HIS POLITICS OR NOT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THE SHOW, RIGHT. WHEN YOU MET HIM, YOU REALIZED JUST HOW BRILLIANT HE TRULY WAS. AND I ALWAYS SAY KIND TO YOU BECAUSE NO MATTER WHEN WE CALLED HIM, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONTROVERSY WAS, HE WAS ALWAYS SO GRACIOUS. AND LOOK, YOU CAN’T SAY THAT ABOUT EVERYONE WHO’S BECOME SUCCESSFUL FROM CINCINNATI AND MOVED ON TO BIGGER THINGS. THERE ARE A LOT OF CELEBRITIES THAT WILL REACH OUT NOW, AND THEY THEY KIND OF FORGOT WHERE THEY CAME FROM. AND HE JUST NEVER DID. HE DIDN’T. AND AUTHENTICITY WAS THE THING THAT STICKS OUT ABOUT HIM. HE WAS WHO HE WAS BECAUSE HE WOULD TELL YOU THAT SCREEN, YOU CAN’T FAKE IT. WE’LL HAVE WE’LL HAVE A BITE WITH HIM A LITTLE BIT LATER WITH REGARD TO THAT THAT YOU HAVE TO BE WHO YOU ARE OR ELSE PEOPLE WILL THEY’LL GET IT. THEY’LL NOTICE AND THEY’LL REJECT IT. SO YEAH, YEAH. AMONG YOU AND CURTIS AND OTHERS HERE IN THE NEWSROOM, THE STORIES ABOUT JERRY SPRINGER HAVE JUST BEEN INVALUABLE TO HERE BECAUSE, OF COURSE, AS I SPOKE WITH GEORGE ABOUT THIS SOCIAL MEDIA WASN’T AROUND BACK THEN. AND SO YOU GUYS JUST HAVE THOSE AUTHENTIC STORIES FROM MEMORY AND IT’S JUST REALLY BEEN GREAT TO HEAR THOSE. YEAH, WE DIDN’T HAVE WE DIDN’T HAVE THIS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. GOOD F

Jerry Springer, TV talk show host, cause of death revealed

Updated: 10:26 AM EDT Apr 28, 2023

Longtime TV talk show host Jerry Springer died peacefully Thursday at his home in suburban Chicago, according to a statement from his family. He was 79.He died after a bout with pancreatic cancer, according to a family spokesperson. Springer’s namesake TV show was a ratings powerhouse, but often a cultural pariah, known for its chair-throwing and tabloid-style drama. “The Jerry Springer Show” ran for 27 years – with more than 4,000 episodes – before coming to an end in 2018. Outside of his famed chair-throwing, tabloid-style television show, Springer was also known for his political chops and background.Jerry Springer Archive: Springer talks about coming to America, seeing Statue of LibertySpringer entered politics with an unsuccessful congressional race in 1970. He was elected to Cincinnati Council the following year, resigned in disgrace three years later in a Northern Kentucky sex scandal, then was re-elected a year later, demonstrating his popular appeal despite the fresh baggageHe served as Cincinnati’s 56th mayor in 1977.His lone attempt at higher office came in 1982, when he took a run at the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor and lost.After that, he left the political candidate track and became a news anchor and commentator at sister station WLWT in Cincinnati before taking on a new role as a talk show host in the early ’90s. After serving the city of Cincinnati as a newsman, Springer bid farewell to the Queen City in 1993.In recent years, Springer has made a splash with his podcast “The Jerry Springer Podcast,” and was also the star of the courtroom show “Judge Jerry.”

Longtime TV talk show host Jerry Springer died peacefully Thursday at his home in suburban Chicago, according to a statement from his family. He was 79.

He died after a bout with pancreatic cancer, according to a family spokesperson.

Springer’s namesake TV show was a ratings powerhouse, but often a cultural pariah, known for its chair-throwing and tabloid-style drama. “The Jerry Springer Show” ran for 27 years – with more than 4,000 episodes – before coming to an end in 2018.

Outside of his famed chair-throwing, tabloid-style television show, Springer was also known for his political chops and background.

Jerry Springer Archive: Springer talks about coming to America, seeing Statue of Liberty

Springer entered politics with an unsuccessful congressional race in 1970. He was elected to Cincinnati Council the following year, resigned in disgrace three years later in a Northern Kentucky sex scandal, then was re-elected a year later, demonstrating his popular appeal despite the fresh baggage

He served as Cincinnati’s 56th mayor in 1977.

His lone attempt at higher office came in 1982, when he took a run at the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor and lost.

After that, he left the political candidate track and became a news anchor and commentator at sister station WLWT in Cincinnati before taking on a new role as a talk show host in the early ’90s. After serving the city of Cincinnati as a newsman, Springer bid farewell to the Queen City in 1993.

In recent years, Springer has made a splash with his podcast “The Jerry Springer Podcast,” and was also the star of the courtroom show “Judge Jerry.”