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Help protect our waterways from contamination with these ingenious wet wipe alternatives

With a rapidly changing climate, protecting our waterways has never been so important. Not only are they some of our most beautiful natural areas, they also offer tons of amazing recreation opportunities. Who doesn’t love a summer day down by the river?

With ever increasing amounts of pollutants, single-use plastics, and personal cleansing wipes making their way into our waterways, our planet’s natural bodies of water face threats of contamination. Wet wipes are especially harmful since many are made with plastic fibers that prevent them from breaking down in plumbing and sewer systems when flushed down the toilet – even those labeled as “flushable” still don’t always break down as required. These flushed wipes can bond together to create giant masses called “fatbergs” (like this giant one found in Maryland), which clog sewer systems and cause raw sewage overflows into our waterways. This major problem affects both wildlife and drinking water sources.


“There seems to be a common misunderstanding that, if it goes down the toilet, it’s ‘flushable,’” says Jessica Oley, Owner & Founder of Pristine Cleansing Sprays, a company that makes eco-friendly alternatives to wet wipes. “City sewers and water treatment infrastructure are simply not equipped to handle the increased use of wet wipes, which has led to damaged machinery and sewage overflows into our natural bodies of water.”

While prioritizing care of our environment is undoubtedly a top priority, some luxuries are difficult to go without – especially those that contribute to our comfort and cleanliness and feel like necessities. Wet wipes and body wipes are some of those guilty pleasure items because of their convenience factor, but when you really consider their negative environmental effects, they become all guilt and little pleasure. Thankfully, though, the company Pristine Cleansing Sprays has begun curating products that provide the same comfort and convenience as wet wipes, while alleviating the negative environmental impact. Pristine’s toilet paper spray is sprayed onto dry toilet paper to create a wet wipe that naturally breaks down once flushed, so there’s no threat of clogs, fatbergs, or sewage overflows. Pristine also offers an eco-friendly alternative to another type of wet wipe – body wipes – with their new Body Cleansing Sprays. They spray directly onto your body (and/or cloth), then cleanse and refresh without creating extra waste that stems from single-use items like wipes. New products like these and eco-focused companies like Pristine might be the key to a clean body and a clean planet.

“It was really important to us when starting Pristine that we not only create high-quality, safe products, but that we did so in a way that reduced the burden on the environment,” said Oley. “Quality and environmental concerns are the central focus in every discussion that we make when curating new products.”

We wanted to learn more about the company and its impact. So we reached out to the founders of Pristine Cleansing Sprays for an interview and found out all about the inspiration behind these life-changing sprays. Here’s what they had to say:

1) Your toilet paper spray sounds like magic. Is it? If not, how does it work?

It’s magic! Plus a year of testing, formulating, and re-testing to perfect the right balance of quality ingredients and superior wiping experience while not compromising the integrity of the toilet paper 🙂 Our toilet paper spray was formulated to be a simple, eco-friendly, truly flushable alternative to wet wipes. So all you have to do is spray Pristine directly onto folded toilet paper, wipe, and flush – like magic!

2) A lot of companies say they’re eco-friendly and help the earth – what makes Pristine a company that truly makes the planet better?

When we started Pristine, it was extremely important to us to clean up more than just backsides. This meant formulating innovative products that truly help keep the environment cleaner. Our sprays are made to replace the use of wet wipes, body wipes, and hand wipes, with a spray alternative that is biodegradable. With every 4 oz bottle of Pristine, you prevent 200 single-use plastic wipes from entering the ecosystem. Plus the packaging is reusable and/or recyclable. We also seek out partners who care about the environment – our manufacturer is based in the USA, powers its facilities through 100% wind energy, and specializes in sourcing cruelty-free, sustainable, and natural ingredients.

3) So which came first – the toilet paper spray, the body spray, or the hand sanitizer? And be honest with us – do you have a favorite?

Our toilet paper spray was our first creation! Its early success took us all the way to the Shark Tank stage where we had the opportunity to tell 5 billionaires that they were wiping their tushes all wrong. We recognized that we didn’t have to stop at the bottom, but could create simple, eco-friendly solutions to other common problems. Our body cleansing spray was born to bridge the gap between an actual shower and a body spray that masks odor without cleansing. Then our hand sanitizing spray was released during COVID to aid in the hand sanitizer supply shortage. As a small, family business, our sprays feel like they are a part of the family, so we have to say that we love them all equally 🙂

4) So we read that you guys were both lawyers before starting the company… There’s gotta be a story there, do tell 🙂

Yes, we are first cousins and both former lawyers! Early on in the development of our company, we would joke that the worst thing about failing in the butt-wiping industry would be having to be attorneys again. Ha! In all seriousness, the idea for Pristine was born over a family dinner conversation about wet wipes. We both had specific reasons about how we thought that we could improve upon wet wipes in a way that was better for the backside and better for the environment. That night, we took the leap and started working on what would eventually become our new and improved full-time jobs!

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Roddy Ricch Sets The Table For ‘Feed Tha Streets III’ With ‘Twin’ Featuring Lil Durk

Roddy Ricch has been cooking up preparing to Feed Tha Streets yet again with the third installment of his breakout mixtape series and today, he set the table with “Twin” featuring Lil Durk. An aggressive banger, “Twin” employs a tumultuous beat by Aaron Bow, Byrd, and Teddy Walton, which the two rappers use to boast their matching Mercedes Benzes and unapologetic outlook on getting money and keeping their respective circles small. “Call up Durkio, I need a evil twin in this bitch,” Roddy snarls, while Durk threatens, “Brought my twin to beat your ass, we’ll do you worser with a stick.”

Fans have been looking forward to Feed Tha Streets III for several months after he announced he wanted to release it after his tour earlier this year. The tape is anticipated as a return to form after fans didn’t quite enjoy his second album Live Life Fast quite as much as they did debut. While he blamed its lukewarm reception on its December release date, he also quickly bounced back with an appearance on Post Malone’s “Cooped Up” and the Big 3 EP, which set up a solid footing for the latter part of the year. Since then, he’s released the singles “Stop Breathing” and “Aston Martin Truck,” building an impressive buzz, and aims to wrap up the Twelve Carat Toothache Tour with Post this week in Los Angeles.

Feed Tha Streets 3 is out 11/18 via Atlantic. Pre-save it here.

Roddy Ricch is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Juan Gabriel’s Posthumous ‘Los Dúo 3’ Album Has Arrived With Duets Featuring Danna Paola And John Fogerty

Juan Gabriel’s highly-anticipated Los Dúo 3 album was released on Friday (November 11). The LP by the late Mexican icon includes new duets with Danna Paola and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty.

Before his death in 2016, Gabriel launched his Los Dúo album series a year prior. The first LP included duets with Fifth Harmony, Marco Antonio Solís, and Vicente Fernández. The second album arrived a few months later with J Balvin, Belinda, and Joan Sebastian joining Gabriel on duets. His estate oversaw the release of Los Dúo 3 album.

“My father lived for making music,” Gabriel’s son, Ivan Gabriel Aguilera, said in a statement. “He knew music had the ability to improve the day and change moods, and knew what music meant to the world. His two great passions were making music, and putting his beloved Mexico, as well as the entire Latin community, at the forefront for the world to see their beauty and culture. We are grateful to everyone involved in producing and releasing Los Dúo 3.”

Mexican pop star Paola features on “De Mí Enamórate.” Gabriel originally wrote the song back in 1986 and it was later recorded by Mexican singer Daniela Romo. Now Paola belts her heart out alongside Gabriel in the soaring love song. A special lyric video was also released featuring images of both artists.

Another standout duet on the album is “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” with Fogerty. In 2016, Gabriel recorded “Gracias Al Sol,” a Spanish version of the song for a Latin tribute album to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty was a fan of Gabriel’s take on the song. The two legends join forces for a beautiful Spanglish version of the CCR classic.

Los Dúo 3 is out now via Virgin Music Latin. Listen to it here.

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Is Method Man Married?

Method Man caused quite the stir when he visited Sherri Shepherd on her Sherri daytime talk show earlier this month — unintentionally setting a thirst trap just by showing up — to promote his Paramount+ film On The Come Up. Shepherd called Meth “a sex symbol” and wondered if he was comfortable being labeled that.

“I’ll tell you this: I’m comfortable with being old,” the 51-year-old Wu-Tang Clan legend said. “You know what? When you’re happy, it shows, I think. And it shows.”

Meth has plenty of reasons to be happy professionally, but he’s also been married to Tamika Smith since 2001. Shepherd asked him if he had “any tips for a great relationship.”

“Um, don’t talk about it,” he responded. “I think the more you keep things private and between you and her, it’s more personal that way, and it lasts longer.”

Method Man walks that walk. He rarely, if ever discusses Smith and their relationship publicly, but he briefly talked about his marriage on Jada Pinkett Smith’s 50 birthday Red Table Talk episode in September 2021. “It’s work,” he said, adding, “Respect is first and foremost.”

In 2006, Tamika was unwillingly thrust into the spotlight when Wendy Williams publicly disclosed her breast cancer diagnosis, which she beat into remission. “My wife is one of the strongest people on the planet,” Method Man told Rolling Stone that year. “I just want to make Wendy Williams aware of exactly what it felt like to be sitting in that hospital room, watching them pump this poison into the one you love.”

Method Man (real name Clifford Smith) and Tamika share three children.

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Ivanka Trump May Have Bizarrely Cropped Donald Jr.’s Fiancée Out Of A Photo From Tiffany’s MAGA Wedding

Tiffany Trump’s wedding to Michael Boulos (they met at Lindsay Lohan’s beach club) was supposedly a “joyous family occasion.” But it’s hard to believe that’s true when “cranky” Donald is puttering around Mar-a-Lago, where the ceremony was held, in a huff, and Melania is in IDGAF mode. It also didn’t help that Tiffany’s half-sister, Ivanka, cut Donald Jr.’s shout-y fiancée out of a wedding photo. What a web, these Trumps weave.

The Daily Mail reports that Ivanka “[cropped] her brother’s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle out of photos” from the MAGA funeral, I mean, happy wedding. “All of the family members were in pastel-colored or gold dresses, except for Guilfoyle, 53, who stood out in black.”

The full photo showed, from left to right, Tiffany’s sister-in-law, Lara; her mother, Marla Maples; the bride; her stepmother, Melania; her half-sister, Ivanka; and Guilfoyle. But Don Jr’s wife-to-be was nowhere to be seen in the version of the pic on social media.

A source (Jared Kushner in a Groucho Marx-style-mustache, probably) told the British tabloid that Ivanka and Kimberly are “very close,” and that “when Ivanka realized what had happened, she immediately reposted the photo.” And yet it’s still up on Twitter.

Ivanka did not delete the original post or story, which she followed up with some footage of the former President giving her some golf lessons, simply posting the original photo on her Instagram stories four hours later.

Donald Trump responded to the slight on Truth Social by… completely ignoring it.

(Via the Daily Mail)

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Method Man, For The Umpteenth Time, Has The Internet Thirsting Over Him: ‘I Mean Look At That Man’

Method Man stopped by Sherri Shepherd’s eponymous daytime talk show nine days ago, but the internet still isn’t over it. The Wu-Tang Clan legend and award-winning actor was there to promote On The Come Up, his movie streaming on Paramount+, but he couldn’t get a word in after walking out to join Shepherd.

Before Meth even physically appeared, the in-studio audience was already lustfully wooing at the mere sight of him in an On The Come Up clip. He walked out, and they couldn’t contain their thirst for Method Man in leather black pants and a crisp cream turtleneck.

“Method Man is what brings them to the church, and Clifford Smith keeps ’em coming back,” Meth said when Shepherd asked him how he’d prefer to be addressed. A few moments later, Shepherd addressed the elephant in the room, “No disrespect to your wife, Tamika, but I have to say, you are a sex symbol! You fine!”

“I’m comfortable with being old,” Method Man, 51, replied. “You know what? When you’re happy, it shows, I think. And it shows.”

People are doubling (and tripling and quadrupling) down on Shepherd’s “sex symbol” comment, with one person simply tweeting, “I mean look at that man” with three fire emojis. See some of the best reactions below, and watch the full Sherri episode above.

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Le Sserafim Ends Their ‘Antifragile’ Era By Showing Their ‘Impurities’ In New Music Video

Following their upbeat, bass bumping, twerk-enducing leading single “ANTIFRAGILE,” LE SSERAFIM slows it down a bit in a surprise release.

After a successful promotional run of their second EP, HYBE’s Source Music quintet celebrated the end of their ANTIFRAGLE era by dropping an alluring music video for their supporting title track “Impurities” earlier today. Dressed all in white, members Chaewon, Sakura, Yunjin, Kazuha, and Eunchae channel their inner dreamy ’90s and Y2K R&B pop stars in a performance video filled with tantalizing visuals that depict the process of mixing impurities with clean-cut choreography.

According to a press release, the B-side track “shares the hurt and impurities they have endured throughout their journey and how these are medals of the times they withstood and have overcome.” Co-written by member Yunjin, “Impurities” is also the theme song for HYBE’s upcoming original story (in the form of a webtoon and web fiction) Crimson Heart.

The release of “Impurities” comes after the news of ANTIFRAGILE breaking into the Billboard 200 chart at No. 14, making them the fastest K-pop girl group to ever do so after six months into their debut.

Last week, it was revealed through HYBE’s 2023 plans that the “FEARLESS” artists will be gearing up for a world tour next year. However, no further details were provided.

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‘The View’ Roasted Tiffany Trump’s Wedding For Seeming More Like A ‘MAGA Funeral’

Tiffany Trump couldn’t have picked a worse wedding date. Not only did her father’s Mar-a-Lago resort get pummeled by Hurricane Nicole, but the former president was in a foul mood coming off the midterm elections. After the Republicans failed to produce a “red wave,” Donald Trump‘s standing in the party descended into doubt as even Fox News questioned whether he should run for president in 2024. These were not the ideal conditions for a wedding ceremony, and The View had a field day with the whole thing.

The panel immediately kicked things off by jumping on Ivanka Trump for possibly cropping Kimberly Guilfoyle out of a photo that she posted to Instagram. Even though Ivanka later posted the full photo in an Instagram story, according to Daily Mail, it’s easy to poke fun at the situation.

Via Mediaite, here’s what The View had to say in response:

“Well, I stand with Ivanka on this. Kimberly didn’t understand the assignment. It’s a Florida wedding in November,” said [Alyssa Farah] Griffin. “All the women clearly knew what the palette was, what the look was, and she was dressed like she was going to, like, a MAGA funeral or something. I’m going to be honest. I probably would have cropped her too.”

However, seeing an opening, co-host Ana Navarro came to Guilfoyle’s defense. Although, in a deliciously backhanded way.

“Maybe it’s completely the opposite,” Navarro said. “Maybe she did get the assignment because it was a MAGA funeral.”

In fairness, the event wasn’t exactly jovial, and it’s hard to pinpoint who was the bigger cloud over the ceremony: the hurricane or Donald Trump. According to the New York Post, the former president was “grumpy and unhappy” at the rehearsal dinner because his political rival Ron DeSantis came out of the midterms looking like a winner.

“He’s in a bad mood,” a source at Tiffany’s rehearsal told the Post.

(Via Mediaite)

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The ‘White Lotus’ Misery Index: A Bunch Of Relationships And Jet Skis On Choppy Waters

The White Lotus Misery Index is a weekly accounting of who and/or what is having the worst time in paradise in season two of the HBO series. The rankings are based on a number of factors, none of which can or will be quantified in any way. We are doing art here, not science.

UNRANKED: Lucia and Mia (woke up from a jacuzzi threesome, kind of got fired, hooked up with Cam and Ethan, really just a full day); Greg (still a scumbag but being married to Tanya seems exhausting); Giuseppe the Piano Man (still a creep); the hot tattoo guy in the pool (there’s always one); Bert (I kind of want him to discover a dead body and spend the rest of the trip solving a murder); jet ski montages (love them); elephants, generally (ready to watch an elephant documentary now); the old dudes playing The Godfather music in the little square (must be so sick of that song)

10. Cameron and Daphne (Last week: Unranked)

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Up until this episode, these two had been depicted as a pair of hot bozos with no worries, which, as far as living goes, is not the worst way to barrel through life, all things considered. But there was always something weird there. They couldn’t have been that happy. No one is.

And guess what: they’re not! They don’t do it in the more straightforward way other couples on this show do it (see: Harper and Ethan bickering in their room, Greg and Tanya melting down in public once a day), but it’s just as ugly in its own subtle way, with Cam cheating every time his groin leads him to a prostitute like a divining rod and Daphne running off on little adventures that she’s designed to torture him. It’s somehow the most and least healthy relationship on the show. I hate them both very much.

9. Valentina the Manager (Last week: 7)

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We saw Valentina off of the hotel grounds twice this week and in those two glimpses into her personal life she was:

  • Cussing out dudes in a coffee shop
  • Feeding stray cats on the street while eating lunch out of a Tupperware container

I worry about her. She works too hard and I think it’s wearing her down. She pretty clearly hates every guest in the hotel, which is not unreasonable given… every guest in the hotel. I hope she wins the lottery and moves to Miami.

8. Salvo the Coffee Shop Man (Last week: Unranked)

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Once again, we find ourselves in a situation where two things can be true…

ON ONE HAND: This was an episode that took a magnifying glass to the male gaze, with dozens of Sicilian dudes skeeving on Harper and Cameron pontificating on the flaws of monogamy like the worst college sophomore you’ve ever met and Dom fighting his instinct to eye up every woman in a shiny top in all of Europe, and this guy in the coffee shop set the ball in motion early on by trying and failing to chat up Valentina while she was ordering coffee.

ON THE OTHER HAND: I would kind of like to know what he thought happened there. I think he thought he was being nice but ran into a buzzsaw of centuries of boorish macho behavior and a woman who was not having any of it in that particular moment. I suspect he was very confused.

7. Dominic (Last week: 8)

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His dad overheard the jacuzzi threesome and kind of won’t stop talking about it. He told his son he wasn’t going to put him in the middle of his failing marriage and then basically did exactly that about 20 seconds later. He paid Lucia and Mia to go away and then spent the rest of the night ogling every woman within a 500 feet radius like the Terminator. Insists he’s a feminist despite… you know… everything else happening in this paragraph. It’s not going great.

Also: I know I’ve said this before, at least once, but it is impossible for me to watch Michael Imperioli be a hopelessly dense goofball without hearing Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts in my head just tearing him apart. It’s really fun if you picture Paulie as like a super progressive dude with strong opinions about creating positive and healthy relationships with the woman in your life and him lecturing Dom about it over drinks. If I ever whiff on an important plot point in one of these posts, or if I just get something completely wrong, please know that I was probably thinking about something like this instead.

6. Albie (Last week: 1)

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He’s a sweet boy who has no idea how to behave thanks in large part to his father’s raging libido and his fancy private school education and his whole plan to woo Portia — he absolutely gamed out that “bring her a beer and kiss her” move for hours and probably settled on a beer over another drink because it seemed cool/chill — went sideways because some tatted up himbo with sensitive nipples hopped into the pool 30 seconds earlier. Kid cannot get out of his own way or catch a single break.

It would be really funny if he ends up with Tanya, in part because they would be such a fascinating pair to watch do anything together and in part to let Jennifer Coolidge play her greatest hits once again. I might start openly rooting for this, just for the chaos of it all.

5. The Sicilian Fortune Teller (Last week: Unranked)

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She was:

  • Dragged into a rich lady’s suite to read tarot cards
  • Yelled at when the cards provided a less-than-ideal reading
  • Chased out of the room while being accused of being too negative

Not great as far as afternoons go. On the other hand, her whole thing reminded me of this tweet…

… so it’s not all bad. For me. Still not great for her. Or Tanya. Or Portia. Or anyone but me, really. Lots to consider here.

4. Portia (Last week: 4)

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Portia is having a tough one. She pretty clearly hates her job and where she’s at in life. She seems very depressed, based only on her speech about everything being boring. All she wants is one damn adventure in her life but instead she’s stuck in this beautiful hotel with a needy boss who makes her sit on the couch and read Vanity Fair while she sleeps and a sweet boy who is terrified to kiss her. The best advice anyone has given her through three episodes was Tanya telling her not to chase emotionally unavailable men, which is fair and sound and pretty freaking rich given the source.

When you type it all out like that it reads like the description of a person who is having a midlife crisis, which is not great when you consider she’s like 22 years old. Maybe she should try skydiving.

3. Tanya (Last week: 5)

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Bullet points once again:

  • Husband left to go be with another woman even as she offered to rip up their prenup, which was so sad and pathetic I had to look away from the screen for a second
  • Maybe the most emotionally needy person ever depicted on the small screen
  • Spending a lot of her vacation crying and drinking alone

Jennifer Coolidge is the greatest. Just putting on a masterclass. If they don’t at least consider this…

… for the next go-round, I will be livid. I could see her and Miss Piggy getting along really well and then fighting over Kermit.

2. Harper (Last week: 2)

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Harper started the day by waking up early against her nature and spritzing her cleavage and flipping her hair and really just pulling out everything in her feminine arsenal to get Ethan to look at her after his run and still getting absolutely nowhere, even after she promised to try to be cheery and upbeat all day, also against her nature. And what did it get her? A day of creeps leering at her and a bad run with an edible and a phone call to her husband that went straight to voicemail as he and Cameron entertained a pair of Sicilian prostitutes in the room they left unoccupied.

Yes, sure, Ethan didn’t do anything with Mia, and yes, sure, the edible has her brain humming loud enough to be audible from 6-8 feet away, but still. Harper is not having fun right now. This is what you get for waking up early. Let us all learn this lesson.

1. Ethan (Last week: 10)

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It’s not as easy to notice because Ethan is quiet and just wants people to be happy but this dude is a mess. It’s probably the massive influx of money. It’s screwing with him and his idea of who he is. He has no interest in his wife sexually, and no interest in the cute prostitute who was kissing his face either. His quote-unquote friend is pretty openly angling for his money for an investment scheme in his broseph financial company and even more openly asking for illegal insider tips going forward. Everyone wants something from him and he has no idea what to give them or how to even do it.

The only time he seems happy is when he’s out running alone at the crack of dawn, which is depressing on about three or four different levels. I worry about Ethan a lot.

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Jerry Springer Apologized For His Infamous Long-Running Talk Show: ‘What Have I Done? I’ve Ruined The Culture’

Daytime shows have courted controversy long before the Ellen DeGeneres fiasco of recent years. Back in the 1980s, Geraldo Rivera’s mustache lit up some fuses and even sat alongside a broken nose in the process. Years later, Jerry Springer took over the slot previously occupied by Phil Donahue, and the rest was pop cultural history.

In 2018, The Jerry Springer Show look a bow after 27 years full of literal and metaphorical throw downs. Cheaters were exposed, food was thrown in the air for no good reason, and there remain questions about whether some guests were actually actors. Whatever the case, Springer now feels badly about showcasing the lowest common denominator of American society for profit. Via NME, Springer appeared on David Yontef’s Behind the Velvet Rope podcast and admitted that he harbors regrets:

“I just apologize… I’m so sorry. What have I done? I’ve ruined the culture… I just hope hell isn’t that hot because I burn real easy. I’m very light-complected, and that kind of worries me.”

Clearly, this is a bit of a joke, but it’s true that Springer, Rivera, Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jenny Jones, and many others sure did do their best to tank American culture on daytime TV. The audience was there for them, too, proving that the responsibility can be spread around for sure. And Jerry surely never imagined that his show would become tied to a real-life murder case when a guest killed another guest after a particularly unsettling on-air confrontation. That’s an extreme case, but at least to some degree, Springer sounds like he wouldn’t mind erasing some TV sins of the past.

(Via NME)