Inside Oprah Winfrey's feud with Jerry Springer as her behaviour is branded 'inappropriate' by late talk show host's staff in explosive documentary
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Producers on The Jerry Springer Show hit out at Oprah Winfrey this month as they recalled her long-running feud with the late talk show host. Jerry's controversial tabloid talk show, which aired from 1991 to 2018, made history as the first programme to topple The Oprah Winfrey Show in the ratings, yet Oprah, 70, made no secret of her disdain for the programme - branding it 'appalling'.
![[Jerry's show aired from 1991 to 2018 and was known for its outrageous content with Netflix's Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action unpacking the drama behind the scenes]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/10/94427669-0-image-a-2_1737629688655.jpg)
When The Jerry Springer Show first began to gain traction in the late Nineties for its outrageous content Oprah was asked her thoughts on the eponymous host - who died in 2023 after battling pancreatic cancer. Kicking off her feud with Jerry, Oprah said at the time: 'Jerry Springer is in a class all by himself, if you want to call that a class. I think he just is - he's out, he's gone, that whole show, I think it's appalling. I can't believe what I'm seeing.
![[Toby Yoshimura said: 'The way that Oprah behaved compared to the way Jerry behaved? Jerry was class act. He gave her the right of way and she punched back. It was so inappropriate']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/10/94427655-0-image-m-6_1737629709713.jpg)
'I watched the other day and this guy pulled his pants down and there he is, he opens himself - I can't believe what I'm seeing when I watch that show!'. When challenged that it was herself who 'led the way with confessional TV and people baring their soul', Oprah hit back: 'Confessing and baring your soul is one thing, baring your penis is another.'.
![[Executive producer Richard Dominick said: 'Oprah p***ed me off, especially because Jerry was so nice. Jerry was the nicest man in the in the world']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/10/94427659-0-image-m-7_1737629718807.jpg)
Producers on The Jerry Springer Show have hit out at Oprah Winfrey as they recalled her long-running feud with the late talk show host (hosts pictured in the Nineties). Oprah also lashed out at the show in a 1999 interview with The Times, when she claimed the programme would pave the way to shows airing sex scenes on daytime television.
![[Reflecting on beating Oprah's ratings, producer Annette Grundy shared: 'It was like a vindication, like you used to always look down at us and talk about us and make fun of us']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/10/94427649-0-image-m-8_1737629728245.jpg)
