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Talk show
hoax spurs
lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) — If you think
no topic is taboo for TV’s much-
maligned talk shows, try this one:
“Scam Artists Who Pose as Dys
functional Guests.”
Of course, that wasn’t the real
title of an episode of “Jerry
Springer,” in which a man was
said to reveal to his wife that he’d
been sleeping with their chil
dren’s teen-age baby sitter.
The actual title was “Honey,
Have I Got A Secret For You!”
But the secret wasn’t the one
Springer and his producers had
counted on.
Turns out the philandering
husband was really a Toronto
comic, as were his purported wife,
the baby sitter and the baby sit
ter’s boyfriend, all of whom ap
peared on the show.
When the truth was revealed,
the show’s producer. Multimedia
Entertainment Inc., filed suit
against the four in federal court
in Chicago, maintaining their
hoax threatens the integrity of
shows like Springer’s.
The comics’ counterclaims of
generally slimy and dishonest
behavior by Springer’s produc
ers essentially put TV talk
shows on trial.
“By trying to make an exam
ple out of us they’ve laid them
selves bare,” said Suzanne
Muir, 28, who portrayed the
unsuspecting wife.
Facing what could be a highly
publicized trial where the
comics promised to tell all, Mul
timedia has reached verbal
agreement on a settlement of
the lawsuit, spokesman Robert
Zimmerman said last week. But
he said the settlement was not
final, and added that the comics
might have breached it by dis
cussing the episode with The As
sociated Press.
Beyond that, Multimedia will
say very little about hoaxers and
even less about the comics’ alle
gations. Springer declined re
peated requests for an inter
view. And a spokeswoman said a
self-imposed gag order was es
sentially in effect.
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