And I really didn't realize what a nice guy Jerry Springer is. He's hilarious too!! He really can't dance for $hit.
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Pburgh wrote:And I really didn't realize what a nice guy Jerry Springer is. He's hilarious too!! He really can't dance for $hit.
Oddly enough, and I NEVER thought I would hear myself saying this, I am pulling for Jerry!! Hey, he is really trying
Joey just danced great. Didn't you love his little tap dance from when he was five being incorporated into the routine? I thought that was great
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I'm usually not skeptical at all but is anyone else getting the impression that this season is kinda, well, set up?? It looks like it with all this "lift" hype. I mean if you know you're not allowed to do a lift why would you put it into your routine?? I think they're just pitting the outstanding dancers against each other - it's just the really good ones that do the lifts. Joey and Mario are so much better than all the rest.
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Nice article about Jerry Springer in my local paper today. Now this is the Jerry I once had tons of respect for! Maybe I should have watched this show, but I have so many already. LOL
Anyway, anyone who's enjoyed Jerry on this show, might enjoy this article:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... 30324/1025
New Jerry's old news to us
He's winning over viewers with wit
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Why is Jerry Springer still "Dancing with the Stars"?
At 62, he's twice the age of some contestants.
He's not very good, finishing at or near the bottom of the judges' scorecards every week.
The talk-show host and former Cincinnati mayor knows he's bad - and jokes about it every show - which has endeared him to the 18.1 million viewers of TV's top-rated reality show. Viewers' votes count for half of the dancers' scores.
When judges ranked his tango second-worst last week, Springer said: "I just want to win the Miss Congeniality award."
Viewers have been charmed by his playfulness and disarming self-deprecating sense of humor that is underplayed on his raucous daytime talk show. But longtime area residents are seeing flashbacks of the young politician who won a 1977 Cincinnati City Council seat with the largest plurality in city history.
"Most of America only knows Jerry as the guy reacting to the insanity of his TV show guests. Now they're seeing the Jerry we know - the self-effacing and witty guy who's worlds away from what he's most famous for," says Jay Gilbert, a WEBN-FM DJ who has known him 30 years.
Springer agrees.
"This is the first time I've done TV being myself," Springer says from Los Angeles, where he's rehearsing for tonight's waltz with partner Kym Johnson (8 p.m., Channels 9, 22). He entered the contest to learn to waltz at his daughter Katie's wedding.
"My TV show isn't really me, or about me. I just introduce the guests, and let them go at it," says Springer, who served on council here for most of the 1970s, and was a WLWT-TV (Channel 5) news anchor for much of the 1980s.
His ballroom performances have been a revelation for Emily Gowin, 32, of Fort Thomas, who only knew him as "Jer-REE! Jer-REE!," host of what TV Guide called the "Worst Show In The History Of Television."
"He's much more personable than on his daytime show," Gowin says. "People identify with him. He admits that he's not that good, and talks about his aches and pains."
Says Lou Schwartz, 32, of Hyde Park: "The other dancers take themselves way too seriously. Jerry is able to laugh at himself, and that's taking him a long way."
It also helps that Springer has a big national TV fan base . The first few eliminations for each "Dancing" season are "a popularity vote. It's not about dancing," says Bud Walter, 68, a Northside dance teacher for 51 years.
The past two weeks, viewers sent home younger contestants (1995 Miss USA and "Meet the Barkers" reality TV star Shanna Moakler; actor Harry Hamlin best known for "L.A. Law") with higher judges' marks.
"Obviously, everyone is a better dancer than I am," Springer says.
Viewers' votes are combined with judges' scores to determine which celebrity is eliminated in the results show (8-9 p.m. Wednesday, Channels 9, 22). Springer says he has no idea how much support he has, or from where it's coming.
Walter says Springer has survived so far on a "natural showmanship presence that is a God-given gift. You either have it or you don't."
TV judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli also find Springer entertaining. Said Goodman last week: "You have so much fun, that's what I love about you."
Producers "have been very surprised by Jerry. He's far more funny, and lovable, and entertaining than we thought he'd be," Izzie Pick, co-executive producer, says.
Performing for audiences has been a skill Springer has honed since his first political campaign, a failed 1970 bid for Congress here.
David Mann of Clifton, a former mayor who served on council with Springer, compares his command of an audience to former President Bill Clinton. "Clinton can control a room or a stadium. Jerry has the same power," Mann says.
Springer's charisma was evident early in his political career, when he sang in coffeehouses and drove a Queen City Metro bus one day.
Midway through his second council term in 1974, he resigned in disgrace after writing a check to a Northern Kentucky prostitute. But 18 months later, he was elected again to council in 1975. Two years later, he was council's top vote-getter and named mayor at age 33.
After his council term expired in 1981, he lost the 1982 Democratic primary for governor. During that campaign, he would tell Cleveland-area audiences: "If you vote for me, I'll turn the state around - and then you'll be next to Kentucky!"
Springer joined Channel 5 in 1982, and worked there until 1993, after his talk show moved to Chicago. He returned here last year to debut his 9 a.m.-noon radio talk show now heard on WSAI-AM (1360).
Former co-anchor Norma Rashid and her daughters watch Springer each Tuesday in their Fort Thomas home and vote for him.
"He's no Fred Astaire, but he's just so lovable," she says. "He'll try anything. He's motivated by having fun and being noticed."
In ABC's ballroom, he's fueled by fear, he says.
"You have to remember each step - and in what order - which is incredibly taxing, because it doesn't come natural," he says. "If you watch my lips, I'm always counting. It's pathetic."
Gowin and Rashid say Springer could stick for a couple of more weeks if ABC plays up learning to dance for his daughter's wedding. Fans of the show also note that a white-haired older man - actor John O'Hurley (J. Peterman on "Seinfeld") - finished second last year.
"There's no chance of that," Springer says. "It's going to end soon. At some point, America will figure out there are better dancers than me."
Anyway, anyone who's enjoyed Jerry on this show, might enjoy this article:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... 30324/1025
New Jerry's old news to us
He's winning over viewers with wit
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Why is Jerry Springer still "Dancing with the Stars"?
At 62, he's twice the age of some contestants.
He's not very good, finishing at or near the bottom of the judges' scorecards every week.
The talk-show host and former Cincinnati mayor knows he's bad - and jokes about it every show - which has endeared him to the 18.1 million viewers of TV's top-rated reality show. Viewers' votes count for half of the dancers' scores.
When judges ranked his tango second-worst last week, Springer said: "I just want to win the Miss Congeniality award."
Viewers have been charmed by his playfulness and disarming self-deprecating sense of humor that is underplayed on his raucous daytime talk show. But longtime area residents are seeing flashbacks of the young politician who won a 1977 Cincinnati City Council seat with the largest plurality in city history.
"Most of America only knows Jerry as the guy reacting to the insanity of his TV show guests. Now they're seeing the Jerry we know - the self-effacing and witty guy who's worlds away from what he's most famous for," says Jay Gilbert, a WEBN-FM DJ who has known him 30 years.
Springer agrees.
"This is the first time I've done TV being myself," Springer says from Los Angeles, where he's rehearsing for tonight's waltz with partner Kym Johnson (8 p.m., Channels 9, 22). He entered the contest to learn to waltz at his daughter Katie's wedding.
"My TV show isn't really me, or about me. I just introduce the guests, and let them go at it," says Springer, who served on council here for most of the 1970s, and was a WLWT-TV (Channel 5) news anchor for much of the 1980s.
His ballroom performances have been a revelation for Emily Gowin, 32, of Fort Thomas, who only knew him as "Jer-REE! Jer-REE!," host of what TV Guide called the "Worst Show In The History Of Television."
"He's much more personable than on his daytime show," Gowin says. "People identify with him. He admits that he's not that good, and talks about his aches and pains."
Says Lou Schwartz, 32, of Hyde Park: "The other dancers take themselves way too seriously. Jerry is able to laugh at himself, and that's taking him a long way."
It also helps that Springer has a big national TV fan base . The first few eliminations for each "Dancing" season are "a popularity vote. It's not about dancing," says Bud Walter, 68, a Northside dance teacher for 51 years.
The past two weeks, viewers sent home younger contestants (1995 Miss USA and "Meet the Barkers" reality TV star Shanna Moakler; actor Harry Hamlin best known for "L.A. Law") with higher judges' marks.
"Obviously, everyone is a better dancer than I am," Springer says.
Viewers' votes are combined with judges' scores to determine which celebrity is eliminated in the results show (8-9 p.m. Wednesday, Channels 9, 22). Springer says he has no idea how much support he has, or from where it's coming.
Walter says Springer has survived so far on a "natural showmanship presence that is a God-given gift. You either have it or you don't."
TV judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli also find Springer entertaining. Said Goodman last week: "You have so much fun, that's what I love about you."
Producers "have been very surprised by Jerry. He's far more funny, and lovable, and entertaining than we thought he'd be," Izzie Pick, co-executive producer, says.
Performing for audiences has been a skill Springer has honed since his first political campaign, a failed 1970 bid for Congress here.
David Mann of Clifton, a former mayor who served on council with Springer, compares his command of an audience to former President Bill Clinton. "Clinton can control a room or a stadium. Jerry has the same power," Mann says.
Springer's charisma was evident early in his political career, when he sang in coffeehouses and drove a Queen City Metro bus one day.
Midway through his second council term in 1974, he resigned in disgrace after writing a check to a Northern Kentucky prostitute. But 18 months later, he was elected again to council in 1975. Two years later, he was council's top vote-getter and named mayor at age 33.
After his council term expired in 1981, he lost the 1982 Democratic primary for governor. During that campaign, he would tell Cleveland-area audiences: "If you vote for me, I'll turn the state around - and then you'll be next to Kentucky!"
Springer joined Channel 5 in 1982, and worked there until 1993, after his talk show moved to Chicago. He returned here last year to debut his 9 a.m.-noon radio talk show now heard on WSAI-AM (1360).
Former co-anchor Norma Rashid and her daughters watch Springer each Tuesday in their Fort Thomas home and vote for him.
"He's no Fred Astaire, but he's just so lovable," she says. "He'll try anything. He's motivated by having fun and being noticed."
In ABC's ballroom, he's fueled by fear, he says.
"You have to remember each step - and in what order - which is incredibly taxing, because it doesn't come natural," he says. "If you watch my lips, I'm always counting. It's pathetic."
Gowin and Rashid say Springer could stick for a couple of more weeks if ABC plays up learning to dance for his daughter's wedding. Fans of the show also note that a white-haired older man - actor John O'Hurley (J. Peterman on "Seinfeld") - finished second last year.
"There's no chance of that," Springer says. "It's going to end soon. At some point, America will figure out there are better dancers than me."
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This might explain the bizarre timing(day after the results show), sounds scandalous(and yes the divorce stuff is true).
http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/a ... 40,00.html
I wonder how this affects next week. If it's a non-elimination and Sara leaves Tuesday, then what happens Wednesday? The show is so highly-rated ABC can't pull it, but what would they fill the hour with? I don't think they would have a 2nd elimination because that would end the show a week earlier and lose 2 shows during November Sweeps.
http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/a ... 40,00.html
I wonder how this affects next week. If it's a non-elimination and Sara leaves Tuesday, then what happens Wednesday? The show is so highly-rated ABC can't pull it, but what would they fill the hour with? I don't think they would have a 2nd elimination because that would end the show a week earlier and lose 2 shows during November Sweeps.
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I remember Jerry's talk show before he changed his format. I used to watch alot then but never watch with his new format.. The one and only thing that I remember is a heartwarming story. He did follow-ups on a guy that was homeless and lived in his car. He also had on another guest that lived in the car with his family (it seems like there was five members in the family) the car must have been kinna small because I can remember Jerry giving them a new station Wagon. He used to do some real good shows!! Anyone remember that??Pburgh wrote:You just gotta love Emmett!!! And I really didn't realize what a nice guy Jerry Springer is. He's hilarious too!! He really can't dance for $hit.
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