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Jerry Springer’s family announced that, he had passed away early on Thursday, after a “brief illness,”. Subsequently, his publicist Linda Shafran, verified that the daytime show had in fact passed away from pancreatic cancer.

Gerald Norman Springer, better known by his stage name Jerry Springer, was a British-born American television host and politician who was best known for his daytime talk show The Jerry Springer Show, which featured outrageous guest behaviour and contentious topics. Jerry Springer was born on February 13, 1944, in London, England, and died on April 27, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.

Tributes

Rabbi Sandford Kopnick of The Valley Temple in Cincinnati, a longtime friend and respected religious figure of Jerry Springer, said that the host of the Jerry Springer Show’s “illness was sudden.” He described Jerry as “a kind and generous person” who “never lost sight of his roots,”.

Interesting Jerry Springer Background

Gerald Norman Springer was born at the Highgate Underground Station in London. This was during the Second World War, when the station was being used to hide residents from German bombing. He was raised in Chandos Road in East Finchley. Margot and Richard Springer, his parents, were German Jews who fled Poland as refugees.

There has never been a better time to recall the most outrageous Jerry Springer incidents than now, following his passing on Thursday at the age of 79.

Some Interesting Jerry Springer Hit Episodes

The controversial talk show host passed away, leaving behind a variety of shocking incidents that helped define his career.

As the son of Jewish-German exiles who fled the Nazis, Springer frequently interviewed racists and Ku Klux Klan members on his show. The topic was also very personal to him. He said to an anti-Semitic priest in 1995, “I don’t hate you, I feel sorry for you.”. Springer instructed the priest to “shut your face” after he launched into a Holocaust denial tirade, almost resulting in physical altercation.

In another instance of an adorable infant guest at his show in 1996, 18 month old infant Zack Strenkert made news for his height and weight. (He was subsequently identified as having the overgrowth-causing Simpson Golabi Behmel Syndrome.) It didn’t matter if his parents led an unusual lifestyle and diapered Zack their child, as an adult. During Zacks first appearance on the show alongwith his father, Zacks father had commented, “Wouldn’t change him for the world.”.

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