‘Jerry Springer Show’ producer claims he acted as ‘pimp’ for iconic host, dismisses new Netflix doc: ‘Whitewash’

nypost.com:

the Irish Sun that he and co-producer and buddy Al Bowman would hire “fake” guests who were likely to sleep with an eager Springer after the show. “When we were first hired Jerry came out to meet us in LA and picked us up in a limo,” the one-time producer said of his 1996 hiring as a guest-finder.“The first thing Jerry said to us was, ‘I want to get laid, where are the hookers?,’” Lubow recalled of the one-time mayor of Cincinnati.“We were like, ‘Whoa!’ but basically we realized right away, it wasn’t just about getting guests for the show, it was about getting him laid, which of course we did,” Lubow claimed to the outlet.“That just became part of our job and that’s why we were so successful and we moved up the ladder.

We found him women who were happy to do double duty, come on the show and look after Jerry after filming,” said Lubow. “I realized right away that the most important thing was not finding guests, but finding women for Jerry,” he added. “I’d go up to them and say, ‘Uh, you know I’m a new producer here and it would do me a huge favor if you would go out with Jerry tonight, he thinks you’re great,’ and they would.

So I was like the pimp,” the producer alleged. Lubow dished to the outlet that many of the guests he would book were “fake” and Jerry was aware of their shady origins — something producers made peace with because regular people would often clam-up on TV.“I called it ‘real people syndrome.’ Some people would have the most shocking lives and talk all about it off-camera, but as soon as the camera was rolling they’d be silent because they’d get embarrassed,” Lubow said. “At least with fake guests you knew they would deliver what they were told to.