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| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
Another note for Jenny: remember when that gay gay revealed his crush to a hetero guy on TV...the hetero guy was so embarassed that he killed the gay gay, and Jenny almost got sued?? (or did she?) that was the beginning of the end for JJ...  Stupid crazy straight guy ruined it for us!
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| quote: | | In 1995, the show became the focus of a sensational murder trial. On 9 March 1995, 29-year-old Jonathan Schmitz appeared on a show called "Same-Sex Secret Crushes", but having only been told that the show was about secret crushes, he assumed that the admirer was a woman. The secret crush turned out to be his neighbor, 32 year-old Scott Amedure. Feeling that he had been publicly humiliated, Schmitz killed Amedure three days later with a 12 gauge shotgun. Schmitz was tried for first degree murder, but the case was overturned due to a technical error in the jury selection. In 1999, he was tried for Second-degree murder and received a sentence of 20-25 years. In May of that year a civil trial found "The Jenny Jones Show" to have been negligent because they did not screen the guests before inviting them on the show. The show was ordered to pay the Amedure family $25,000,000 for funeral expenses and pain and suffering for each family member. This decision was later overturned on appeal. The show pressed on in spite of sluggish ratings and was finally cancelled in 2003. |
I watch Maury at 9am on the days I work from home. I am so familiar with the "You are NOT the father" recurring episodes with the girl who comes back every month with a diff't dude, including one of the previous dudes father while in jail.
Did She find out yet? I was on vacation for a long time.
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