For decades, The Maury Povich Show was marked by its iconic paternity test episodes. The shocking reveals made for great daytime TV, creating major moments that would eventually become viral clips shared to YouTube. While the public seems to eat those segments of the show up, it's hard not to wonder how Povich feels about them. Well, the host recently revealed he's proud of those segments, and he has a firm reason for that.
Maury Povich is only on the 2026 TV schedule by way of syndication, as new episodes of The Maury Povich Show stopped being produced when he retired in 2022. While his iconic phrase "You are not the father" may haunt some who have been in that circumstance, the former TV host told Page Six he took pride in those segments for the potential good they did in uniting families:
