I want the show to demonstrate outrageousness,” Jerry Springer, the late host of the eponymous talk show, once said.

It’s common for a polarizing figure’s death to be met with mixed emotions, but it takes a unique life to evoke a combination of widespread affection and revulsion. Jerry Springer is such a man. This ...

Longtime TV talk show host Jerry Springer died peacefully Thursday at his home in suburban Chicago, according to a statement from his family. He was 79.He died after a bout with pancreatic cancer, ...

Talk show host Jerry Springer onstage on the set of "The Jerry Springer Show" in Chicago. Jerry Springer, who died Thursday at 79, was from Cincinnati, became his hometown's mayor and lived out his ...

Legendary talk show host Jerry Springer spent over four decades on television. After a brief stint as a lawyer in the late 1960s and political ambitions that peaked with him being elected mayor of ...

That show turned out to be Jerry Springer, at the time a top-rating talk show where dysfunctional families willingly aired ...

One of Jerry Springer’s most famous guests — the 70lb baby — said it made him feel like a “circus act”. Zach Strenkert, now 29, appeared on the show for the first time in 1996, and is speaking out ...

Jerry Springer appears at a restaurant in Stamford, Conn., on Aug. 7, 2009. Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads ...