If you’ve ever watched a rerun of Maury on YouTube, there are only two possible thoughts that can run through your head: 1) Does a paternity test going the way you want somehow miraculously give you the ability to do a backflip? And more importantly, 2) where are these “Maury babies” now?
Maury Povich started his eponymous talk show in 1991. As the 1990s wore on — especially post–the O.J. Simpson court case — it became clear that the only way to survive and compete in an increasingly crowded daytime slot was to go big. Oprah Winfrey was creating culture-defining moments with celebrities like Tom Cruise, Jerry Springer proved there were no limits to shock-jock tactics, and Maury began showing Americans just how many fathers wanted no part in their children’s lives.
