Jerry! Jerry!
A producer on “The Jerry Springer Show” has come ahead in a brand new interview with bombshell claims that he was basically a “pimp” for the infamous speak showjerry sp host.
Norm Lubow went from a multi-time visitor, to freelance visitor booker, to star producer on Jerry Springer’s long-running lowbrow present — the place the dregs of society can be known as to struggle, curse, spit, and strip for the afternoon leisure of the American public from 1991 to 2018.
Lubow claimed in an interview revealed Tuesday with the Irish Solar that he and co-producer and buddy Al Bowman would rent “fake” visitors who had been more likely to sleep with an keen Springer after the present.
“When we were first hired Jerry came out to meet us in LA and picked us up in a limo,” the one-time producer mentioned of his 1996 hiring as a guest-finder.
“The first thing Jerry said to us was, ‘I want to get laid, where are the hookers?,’” Lubow recalled of the one-time mayor of Cincinnati.
“We were like, ‘Whoa!’ but basically we realized right away, it wasn’t just about getting guests for the show, it was about getting him laid, which of course we did,” Lubow claimed to the outlet.
“That just became part of our job and that’s why we were so successful and we moved up the ladder. We found him women who were happy to do double duty, come on the show and look after Jerry after filming,” mentioned Lubow.
“I realized right away that the most important thing was not finding guests, but finding women for Jerry,” he added.
“I’d go up to them and say, ‘Uh, you know I’m a new producer here and it would do me a huge favor if you would go out with Jerry tonight, he thinks you’re great,’ and they would. So I was like the pimp,” the producer alleged.
Lubow dished to the outlet that lots of the visitors he would e book had been “fake” and Jerry was conscious of their shady origins — one thing producers made peace with as a result of common individuals would usually clam-up on TV.
“I called it ‘real people syndrome.’ Some people would have the most shocking lives and talk all about it off-camera, but as soon as the camera was rolling they’d be silent because they’d get embarrassed,” Lubow mentioned.
“At least with fake guests you knew they would deliver what they were told to. And it was easier because you didn’t have to deal with the aftermath,” Lubow concluded.
One set of “real guests” that Lubow booked “threatened to kill each other after the show” additional incentivizing the producer to stack the deck with “fake” visitors — who had been individuals able to behave outrageously on the tube.
Lubow was fired as a producer in 1998 after an exposé from “20/20” revealed that he was teaching visitors on the present and even giving some scripts, in accordance with the Irish Solar.
“As I put it, they wanted to eat steak but they didn’t want to know how you butchered the cow,” Ludow mentioned snidely, including, “But [showrunners] knew a lot of these people weren’t legit – and they preferred the fake shows as they were more fun and less trouble.”
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A lot of these “fake” visitors that Lubow discovered had been enticing ladies that had been “happy to do double duty” as each a visitor and post-show date for Jerry, he claimed.
“Luckily, I knew a lot of good-looking women — strippers and things — from my days in a band in LA so that meant I quickly went from a freelance guest-finder to a full-time producer on the show.”
Lubow believes that Springer — who died in 2023 and is the topic of a brand new Netflix documentary “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” — was overwhelmed by his fast rise to fame.
“He couldn’t control his urges because he was finally getting attention and getting women that he never got before — he was like a kid in a candy store,” Lubow mentioned.
The guest-turned-producer took difficulty with the way in which his former boss is portrayed in “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action”, calling the documentary a “whitewash.”
“It was just an accepted part of my job being his pimp and on the Netflix show they make out that he had this one sex scandal. No way, that was just the only time he got caught.”
Lubow was beforehand a visitor on “The Jerry Springer Show” to debate his marijuana-based faux-religion based mostly in Southern California known as the Faith of The Holy Herb.
He additionally appeared on the present underneath an alter-ego “Reverend Bud Green,” alongside Al Bowman, to launch a faux presidential marketing campaign on the present in 1996 and advocate for the legalization of marijuana.
