Jerry Springer Net Worth

Jerry Springer's Quotes

• I would never watch my show. I'm not interested in it.
• On running for Senate - "I would love to have done it. But I have to have seperation from the TV show. Research showed I could win, but people would want the show to be over before the campaign. It's hard to think about Iraq in the evening when I'm dancing with transvestities in the afternoon."
• If a wrestler could be governor, I could be president!
• (What's changed over the new millenium): "I've never been older... "
• I think technology has changed the way we see things. Human behavior has not changed in the last 3,000 years. There's nothing that has ever been on our show that isn't in the Bible, that isn't in literature, that isn't in Shakespeare.

Interesting Facts about Jerry Springer

1. Talk show host
2. Used to be the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.
3. His nationally televised talk show is well known for guests fighting on stage and shouting foul language, as well as having strippers and exotic dancers performing on various episodes.
4. Attended Northwestern University School of Law.
5. Daughter Katie attended Barat College, from where she graduated in May 2001.
6. The Jerry Springer Show (1991) debuts. It was developed by Cincinnati's WLWT-TV to replace its landmark The Phil Donahue Show (1967) (Phil Donahue and Springer both worked for WLWT-TV at the time). Springer was eventually forced to revamp its serious format in an attempt to save the show from being dropped by syndicators due to poor ratings. The rest, as they say, is history. [September 1991]
7. A self-described "country singer-songwriter," he opens for Billy Ray Cyrus whenever scheduling allows, and has even performed at actor Johnny Depp's notorious club, the Viper Room.
8. Born in a London Underground station after his family fled the Holocaust. The family - mom Margot, dad Richard, and sister Evelyn - moved to Queens, New York in 1949 when Jerry was 5.
9. Cincinnati Magazine voted him TV's "Best Anchor" five years in a row.
10. Daughter Katie (born 1976) was born without nasal passages, a condition which was fixed through surgery right after she was born. She is also legally blind and deaf in one ear. She worked as an assistant teacher at Chicago's Park School, working with children with special needs.
11. Has established a scholarship fund at the Keliman School (Chicago, IL) that serves inner-city youth.
12. Holds a BA in Political Science from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), and a JD from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL).
13. Ran for Governor of Ohio in 1982.
14. Spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of what became the 26th Amendment to the Constitution.
15. Vice President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
16. Was a campaign aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's campaign. [1968]
17. Was elected mayor of Cincinnati in 1977 for one year, receiving the largest plurality in history.
18. Won a seat on Cincinnati's Council-at-Large in 1971, but resigned in 1974 after police - raiding a Fort Wright, Kentucky "health club" - found a check he had written to a "massuse" for her services. Coming clean at a press conference, he admitted that he paid for sex with two personal checks in December 1973 and January 1974. His honesty worked, and he won back his seat in 1975.
19. Did a cameo in Brad Paisley's video "I'm Gonna Miss Her."
20. Won 10 local Emmys for his nightly news and political commentaries during his stint at Cincinnati's WLWT-TV.