Jerry Springer Show producer claims he acted as pimp for iconichost, dismisses new Netflix doc: Whitewash

Jerry! Jerry!A producer on “The Jerry Springer Show” has come forward in a new interview with bombshell claims that he was essentially a “pimp” for the notorious talk showjerry sp host.Norm Lubow went from a multi-time guest, to freelance guest booker, to star producer on Jerry Springer’s long-running lowbrow show — where the dregs of society would be called to fight, curse, spit, and strip for the afternoon entertainment of the American public from 1991 to 2018.Lubow claimed in an interview published Tuesday with the Irish Sun that he and co-producer and buddy Al Bowman would hire “fake” guests who were likely to sleep with an eager Springer after the show.“When we were first hired Jerry came out to meet us in LA and picked us up in a limo,” the one-time producer said 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,” said 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 many of the guests he would book were “fake” and Jerry was aware of their shady origins — something producers made peace with because regular people would often clam-up on TV.“I called it...