PROFILE Jerry Springer

Fast facts and background.
Birth name: Gerald Springer
Birth date: Feb. 13, 1944
Birthplace: London, England
Occupations: Writer, musician, TV/radio host.
Claim to fame: Host of TV's arguably most outrageous talk show, "The Jerry Springer Show," 1991 to the present.
Family: Father, Richard, stuffed-animals manufacturer, deceased; mother, Margot, bank clerk, deceased; sister, Evelyn, language teacher; daughter, Katie, born in 1976, legally blind, deaf in one ear and born without nasal passages.
Awards: Seven local Emmys for his nightly commentaries on Cincinnati's WLWT-TV. Cincinnati Magazine voted him TV's "Best Anchor" five years in succession.
Political career: Elected mayor of Cincinnati by the largest plurality in the city's history in 1977.
Education: Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, N.Y.; Tulane University, New Orleans, La., majored in political science, bachelor's degree in 1965; law degree from Northwestern University Law School in Chicago in 1968.
Source: E!online.com