Tidbits on television talkshows.
Talk Show Sleaze
A woman who had cut open her own breasts to remove silicone implants was taped for the Maury Povich show, even though she was under heavy medication from the incident.
A Ricki Lake show on women who sleep with each others’ boyfriends showed black and Latina women swearing and yelling at each other. One pulled off another’s wig. It reinforces stereotypes about minorities.
A woman named Yvonne Porter is suing The Montel Williams Show after her sister revealed on the air that she had been sleeping with Yvonne’s boyfriend for years. Yvonne had been told she was in for a pleasant surprise.
A woman who was about to appear on Donahue with her daughters, who are Siamese twins attached at the head, started to cry when she saw a sign in a producer’s office that listed them as “Freaks.” But a producer convinced her to go on the show anyway, saying that they wouldn’t be seen as freaks, but as normal people.