JERRY Springer's sex scandals were just the tip of the iceberg, with the legendary host regularly hooking up with guests invited on to his TV show, one of its most infamous producers claims. Norm Lubow - who was bizarrely hired as a staff member after appearing on the Jerry Springer Show six times himself - admits he would often hire "fake" guests that included strippers, porn stars or prostitutes he knew from his time in a band in LA.
Speaking about his time on the show for the first time ever, Norm has hit out at the new Springer Netflix documentary as a "whitewash", saying the real story is even more jaw-dropping. He claims Jerry knew many of the guests were fake and even more shockingly alleges he acted like a "pimp" for the chat show host, finding attractive females guests to do "double-duty" - appear on the show and then sleep with him afterwards.
Jerry was no stranger to love scandals, having admitted to paying prostitutes for sex using personal cheques in the s when he was a politician in Cincinnati. In , he was also caught on camera having a threesome with a show guest - a porn star named Kendra Jade - and her stepmom in a scandal that is briefly covered in new Netflix series Jerry Springer : Fights, Camera, Action.
While the documentary paints this as a shocking one-off incident, Norm claims it was in fact standard behavior for the US telly star, who died in He and his pal Al Bowman, a Hollywood celebrity limo driver, were hired as freelance guest bookers in , before Norm was hired as a full-time producer. We found him women who were happy to do double duty, come on the show and look after Jerry after filming. No way, that was just the only time he got caught. And many other things as well.
We forever changed how television works. We opened the floodgates for reality TV to thrive and grow. Norm is a hugely controversial character who appeared on several US talk shows in the 90s to talk about a religion he founded in southern California called the Religion of The Holy Herb, which attracted 1, members. He would often openly light up a marijuana joint on screen, shocking audiences and getting kicked off shows.
