Jerry Springer last pictured at St Patrick's Day parade just weeks before death

27 April 2023 , 14:51

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Jerry Springer last pictured at St Patrick's Day parade just weeks before death

Jerry Springer was last seen at a St Patrick's Day parade before his devastating passing.

It was announced that the TV show host, who served as the mayor of Cincinnati, had passed after a battle with cancer in a family statement released on Thursday 27th April.

Weeks before his death, the 79-year-old shared a snap of himself at a St Patrick's Day parade, and added the caption: "Thank you to @mortampa for a great time at the Rough Riders St. Patrick’s Parade in Ybor City! I’ll be back."

He also shared a series of pictures with news radio station hosts after sitting in an interview, smiled in pictures with the hosts and signed his own merchandise at the event.

Jerry held up a pace sign as he posed for another snap with a group of people from the Tampa Bay MOR team.

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Jerry was last seen at a St Patrick's Day parade

Jerry featured on a radio talk show

In a separate video clip, he told his 346k followers that he was missing the event and thanked the team for having him. He wrote: "Only been a few hours but it felt like days. Thank you @mortampa for having me."

Viewers of Australia's The Morning Show would've seen Jerry back in February as he appeared on the show to defend his old TV series named after him.

The tabloid talk show saw Jerry become a household name in America after it launched in 1991. Of the show, Jerry told hosts Kylie Gilles and Larry Emdur that it was "98% real."

Jerry also appeared on Australia's The Morning Show

"I'd say it was 98% real. In fact, the lawyers were involved, [so] you'd get sued if you made it up."

Taking to the hosts over Zoom, he added: "The situations were truthful. What was embellished... was the reactions. Because you had the audience screaming, 'Jerry, Jerry!'"

"They'd seen the show 100 times before," he continued. "And so you could have the same people on Oprah and they would have behaved perfectly.

He said his TV show was "98% real" (NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

"It's just that when they came to our show, they kind of knew the drill and they just behaved like that."

Jerry looked back on his "crazy" TV show and said that he had an "enjoyable" time working on it.

"It was a crazy show," he said. "For 30 years and... it was enjoyable. Obviously there was an audience that enjoyed it. But I never thought it had any redeeming social value."

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