IN MANY households around the world, kids weren’t allowed to watch his show. It was trash, crass, mind-numbing nonsense featuring people flinging f-bombs, laying into each other and hurling chairs around.
Critics panned it, calling it the worst thing that ever happened to TV – even the host himself once said he didn’t watch his own show. And yet The Jerry Springer Show made him a legend.
Jerry Springer may have been dubbed the king of sleaze, but it was his brand of almost detached charm and his refusal to take himself seriously that made him one of a kind.
So, when he died recently at aged 79 after a brief battle
