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Throughout his illustrious career, Jerry Springer has become a cultural and civic icon. In addition to talk show host, he has been the mayor of Cincinnati, political pundit, lawyer, award-winning newscaster, country recording artist and international emcee and TV personality. He has been in movies and on Broadway, he’s a progressive talk-radio broadcaster and in 2006, Springer won America’s heart with his ballroom dancing. Springer recently added host of a primetime network show to his list of accomplishments when NBC named him host of “America's Got Talent,” the popular variety-talent competition series which returned for its second season in May 2007. Today, because of the lasting popularity of his talk show, Springer is a favorite guest speaker at college campuses throughout the U.S. In 2000, Springer was personally invited by the Oxford Union of Oxford University to participate in their guest lecture series, during which he broke all attendance records for that long-standing series. Springer’s book, titled Ringmaster, hit shelves in 1998. The book detailed his personal experiences along with remembrances from his childhood and professional career. In November of 1998, Springer made his first venture into feature films, starring in “Ringmaster,” the movie. The successful film was a fictionalized account of his television talk show. That same year Barbara Walters named him one of the year’s “10 Most Fascinating People” in her television special. In 1999, Springer teamed up with Mike Myers, where he portrayed himself in the hit movie “Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” Throughout his career the immensely popular Springer has graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York Magazine and Sarasota Magazine, and was recently featured in Vanity Fair’s “Vanities.”
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