Jerry Springer Hosted Vegas Version of ‘Price is Right’

People retrieve Jerry Springer, who died Th of pancreatic cancer at eld 79, for his namesake TV talk show up featuring 27 years of chair-flying brawls. And they should. But he also had a Las Vegas connection.

For several weeks in 2011, 2012, and once more inwards 2018 — on breaks during taping “The Jerry Springer Show” — Springer guest-hosted “The Price is Right — Live” at the Jubilee Theater at Bally’s (now Horseshoe) Las Vegas. Click here to view footage pellet by a fan.

In an interview at the time, Springer said he was ab initio reluctant to do work inwards Las Vegas.

If you asked me a few years ago, i would hold said no, but I’ve changed my mind,” Springer said during a promotional show on KLAS-TV’s “Good Clarence Day Las Vegas” inward 2012. “I love it here, i really do,” he added.

The Vegas variation of the gritty exhibit featured a revolving serial publication of hosts that also included Chuck Woolery, Alan Thicke, and Joey Fatone of NSYNC. The most haunt legion was Sweeney Todd Newton, who at one time won a Daytime Emmy for hosting the “Family Game Night” game show up on the Discovery Kids Channel.

Newton was inwards contention to replace unassuming longtime “The Leontyne Price is Right” legion Bob Barker on the televised variation of the present in 2007, but the gig ultimately went to Drew Carey, who allay has it.

Contestants for “The Mary Leontyne Price is Right — Live” were chosen through a random draftsmanship of ticket-purchasers. Unlike on the televised version, an only unexampled exercise set of contestants was chosen to adjure on to each one young item.

Typically, the games and showcases were played for much take down stakes and littler prizes than on the TV version, which led to quite an a few disconfirming reviews.