Are talk show guests on shows like Jerry Springer actually hired actors and not real people?
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Andy Ninja Is Wicked Back To Work
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i had a friend go on with a phony story about some ridiculous sex and betrayal story, she took along her best friend, who pretended to be her offended lesbian lover. They aren't actors hired, but they sure tend to be exagerated. These friends got paid well for their participation and never told the show hosts that it was a gag.
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John Edward, that guy who claims to talk to dead relatives, is another fraud. What he does is plant staffers in the waiting line who chat up the people about their dead relatives. By the time everyone is in their seats at the taping starts, Edward is armed with everything he needs to know to "make contact" with the dearly departed. While most everyone knows that the guests on Springer etc. are plants. or at least regular people hamming it up for TV; this Edward character is most despicable for deceiving vulnurable, naive people in such a horrible manner.
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not
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Real, at least some of the guests. A few of my friends (more like acquaintances) were on the show.
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NOT I refuse to believe anybody could be as stupid as they are. To air so much dirty linen on TV would require a nation of total idiots
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They CAN'T be real!
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Not. When I was in the airport recently, a young couple was on their way to appear on Jerry Springer, and they told us about conversations with the show's production staff. The couple stated they have no significant problems, but were told to "smack each other around" and create an imaginary argument. They had decided they would argue about the woman's tattoo, which she showed us, and it completely covers both breasts (cobras). (She wasn't an inhibited person at all.) They claimed they were selected for the show because they are "unusual looking" and live in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere.
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I think some of it is real, but I believe that the producers tell them to embellish on their story and get physical with one another. I also believe they are paid good, I dont know for sure or have proof, but I think they are. They would have to pay me REAL good to get on that piece of trash show.
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Sadly, I think the situations and people are real, but the drama is not. I have no doubt that they collect the most gullible and vulnerable sorts and pay them very well to embellish the trashiness and violence in their relationship. I mean, come on, they have a ring side bell to 'incite' the smack downs. That part's obviously staged.
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Real. Depressingly so. Of course, it's all over-dramatized and played up to cater to the daytime TV audience.
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The people and situations are REAL. a lot of the show is staged, like the fights and arguements, but the people are definitely real
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I do not know but if I ever get on his show I will give him a real life body slam. Promise!
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I think in the beginning it was real ,but after allot of the fights started in the couple years after it started,i think allot of it was staged.
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Real, and really stupid, wanting money, and having no respect for themselves or the few times I have seen it, for anything or anyone else. I think it is one of the most worthless shows on TV and feeds into other people's notions that doing outrageous things, including violence and name calling and all the other things that happen on the show are "OK" to do.
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I know they're real because my niece and her boyfriend went on there!
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True but coached as to what to do. They get paid to "PERFORM" so they do.
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not. not that much swearing goes on in real life drama fights
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Gawd! I hope not. and I hope they make money! I feel emabarrassed for some of these people. and keep your clothes on please!!!! ewwwwwwww
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I think he used to have real guests on, I knew a girl who went on his show. It seemed the really bad ones, the ones that fight and tear off each other's clothes were more popular, so they started using fakes. I really dislike that show, as well as Maury, who is starting to be a lot like Jerry.
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Some of the episodes are definitely scripted. If you look them carefully - when they argue they don't interrupt each other. In real world, people as mad as them on the show don't listen to each other so well when arguing. Some hysterical women crying without tears but smudges mascara with wet handkerchief, that's classic. This girl, who was so afraid & shakey on the chair, so nervous that couldn't even speak... When two men started punching each other, the girl stood up, went straight up to the men screaming "stop it!!! stop it!!!" If you were so nervous, would you not run behind the stage, instead of going to the middle of the stage?
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Fake. The bell to start them fighting is a small indication that it may be staged.
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Some of the episodes are definitely scripted. If you look them carefully - when they argue they don't interrupt each other. In real world, people as mad as them on the show don't listen to each other so well when arguing. Some hysterical women crying without tears but smudges mascara with wet handkerchief, that's classic. This girl, who was so afraid & shakey on the chair, so nervous that couldn't even speak... When two men started punching each other, the girl stood up, went straight up to the men screaming "stop it!!! stop it!!!" If you were so nervous, would you not run behind the stage, instead of going to the middle of the stage?
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I know some of them are real, my sis-in-laws brother was on there, because his girlfriend kept cheating on him, so he confronted her, and sang a song to her, he is a musician, it was called "The screw you Blues". LOL.
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I, for one, never watch that show and really don't know what the allure is. I just don't enjoy being around the kind of people he has on his show so I never watch it.
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Real stupid.
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real people who act. everybody wants money these days!
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It's always amazes me as to what people will do to get a free trip to Chicago and appear on TV.
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Real people and they are told to play it up and coached at doing it before they enter the stage area. Watched behind the scenes at the Jerry Springer Show.
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I remember one time they hired former AWA pro wrestler Bill Dundee to pretend to be someone on the show. I know in the court tv shows the show pays the judgement. So yeah its just basically for show.
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fake. my aunt went on jerry springer years ago and she was supposed to be a piece of white trash that doesnt care about her life, but in real life she is very pretty and she always called me pretty pretty princess :]] but its fake
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I did see a couple that appeared on one show with a particular problem, and then on another, with a different issue that contradicted their earlier problem. It may be that the people we see are like game-show contestants, that competed for the prize of being on the show and a payday. "Mine's more bizarre than your's" kinda thing. At any rate, these shows have certainly run their course, and in my opinion, should have been replaced a long time ago.
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neither!
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my friend says that if u pay attention to almost all the male guests, they are all wearing over sized button-up dress shirts..(one size fits all)kind of thing....they hand them out so the guys could rip them off each other/sometimes u see the bouncers ripping them like it was an accident..funny how all those trailer park guests dress in shirt and tie...JERRY,JERRY,,,lol..
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I live in the UK,and get this complete fiasco on the Living Channel,and truly think that any member of the American public who think that this is REAL must be slightly mentally-retarded... We have our own more gritty version of this show,which goes by the name of 'The Jeremy Kyle Show',but at least our version has more realistic aspects,as the subject matter used in the show is generally low-life working class arseholes chewing over REAL problems that affect them...Which is normally mentally-challenged CHAV scum having sex behind each others' backs,and wondering who the father is,due to the lack of understanding of contraception...The UK must be FULL of Catholics!
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