Sprightly Springer has no plans to hang up the mic.
Jerry Springer, 70, first shocked the world with his talk show in 1991 and he has no plans to slow down.
“My show is a circus. It’s about outrageous, dysfunctional, inappropriate behaviour.
“Every day when I go in, I’m not allowed to know what the show’s about, even when it starts.
“They hand me a card with the names of the guests on it, but I never know what the story is and that’s why my first question is always: ‘So what’s going on?’, and then my job is to ask the questions you’d ask sitting at home watching.
“I think the craziest guest must be the guy who married his horse. It was pretty hard to forget that, and we did a follow-up show because the horse left him,” Jerry laughs.
Although Jerry loves presenting his own show he’s also hosted other series such as America’s Got Talent and he’s now doing an international tour of The Price is Right.
“One of the beauties of doing my show is that it opens up so many doors to all kinds of other things. I’ve been really lucky,” he says.
“If God came to me and said: ‘I’m going to give you another life, and you have a choice to live this one again or live another one’, I’d sign on for this one again in a heartbeat.
“Who wouldn’t? I’ve been the luckiest person who ever lived. I’ve had all these great jobs and a great family. It’s just the perfect life I can’t believe it, it’s pure luck and I’m very appreciative.
“I’ll be stopping when I’m 104 because I want to enjoy my retirement! My wife probably wouldn’t want me to stop either because I’d be at home every day!”
Jerry Springer, week-nights, 9pm CBS Drama.
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