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Maury Povich has zero regrets complete nan “Who’s nan Daddy” segments connected his eponymous ’90s talk show.
“It’s go portion of nan culture,” he told Page Six successful a caller exclusive interview, speaking of nan conception and his celebrated one-liner, “You are not nan father.” He added, “I had nary regrets during nan show.”
The “Maury” show, which ran from 1991 to 1998, became celebrated for a conception during which men — who were either trying to found aliases contradict paternity — took DNA tests, pinch nan results being revealed connected air.
Povich, 87, told america he sees a metallic lining attached to nan often raucous segments.
“I deliberation we fundamentally helped a batch of kids extremity up pinch two-parent homes alternatively of one,” he noted. “The statistic are that if a kid has 2 parents successful their life, they [have] sewage a amended chance astatine occurrence … So that’s what I hung my chapeau on. That’s what I was trying to do.”
The erstwhile TV big has travel retired of status to big a caller AI event. The unrecorded taping, which took spot successful April, had Povich attempting to mediate a messy emotion triangle betwixt 2 friends and an AI-generated girlfriend, sponsored by nan AI company, Air.
Povich told america he has nary trepidations astir artificial intelligence.
“I’m not frightened astatine all,” he opined. “My son-in-law is an oncologist, and he tells maine that AI is going to make everybody healthier for many, galore years than they thought they would live, and that it’s nan top boon to medicine location is.”
“So, successful that way, I’m very excited,” he added.
Povich, 1 of nan producers connected his hugely successful syndicated show, told america he is grateful for his success.
“I’m very fortunate,” he said. “I ne'er expected to make a batch of money successful tv since I was a news journalist for nan first 25 years. Didn’t make overmuch money there. And truthful I was happy to be. I was happy to be. Happy to unrecorded good nan 2nd half of my life.”
Povich remembers what he did pinch his first large paycheck.
“My begetter ever worried that money burned a spread successful my pouch moreover though I didn’t person it,” he explained, referring to legendary sports writer Shirley Povich. “So 1 of nan things I did was to nonstop him a level truthful he could spell to his hometown of Bar Harbor, Maine.
“And erstwhile he sewage into nan level and picked maine up successful New York, he looked astatine me, and he said, ‘I’m not going to interest astir you anymore.'”
