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Article: SPRINGER, KING OF TRASH; His victims swear, fight and go all out to shock ... and they've made Jerry Springer a star. But has the tackiest show on telly gone too far?(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1998
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His talk show is the ultimate in bad taste ... and the pinnacle of success.
In the past month, Jerry Springer has featured two porn stars, eight bisexual men, 10 bisexual women, three dominatrixes, two incestuous lovers, four lesbians, six hookers and 12 transvestites.
And in that time there have been 69 woman-on-woman fights, 40 woman-on- man fights, 32 man-on-man fights and 34 free-for-alls.
In America, Springer has done the impossible - beaten talk-diva Oprah Winfrey at her own game with the most lurid shows on TV.
Known as a `bottom ...