Back in the summer of 2019, one of the most hilarious moments involving MTV Reality stars took place on the stage of The Maury Povich Show - and one that foreshadowed what would go down a year later on a Challenge season. It was on the set of the lone survivor of the '90s craze of tabloid talk shows that the former newsman and A Current Affair anchor brought together longtime enemies Johnny Bananas and Wes Bergmann, a year before the unlikely alliance that defined the Total Madness season, part of the first season of the former's other TV gig: host of NBC weekend lifestyle show 1st Look.
There was a time back then that the buzz in the television industry was of talk shows exploring content of a sensational nature, although the genre dates its beginnings to Phil Donohue when his show began in the late '60s. But tabloid talk really took off in the '90s when Geraldo Rivera, Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake and Sally Jesse Raphael all strived to follow in the footsteps of Oprah Winfrey, along with two men a guy named Nelson Thomas knows well: Dr. Phil McGraw and Jerry Springer. The former continues to entertain audiences today in a reduced tabloid talk field (not counting celebrity-based interview shows with Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Clarkson, Wendy Williams and Drew Barrymore), along with Maury.
A key part of what has kept The Maury Show on the air for as long as it has over the past three decades has been it bring to America's consciousness the once private aspects of trying to find out the truth into the open and into the daytime audience. Of course, it is those lie detector tests (like what happened with Bananas and Wes) and those paternity tests to find out the status of who the parents are to adorable young babies. By now, those like you who love your daytime talk know of when Maury announces that those paternity test results and the status of a guy that he doesn't have custody of the kid, the stage of his show almost becomes like a dance club.
In this case, Karamo brought together engaged couple Devin and Christina (pronounced "Chris-tana" than "-tina") where they had been planning together their first pregnancy, but he has been throwing a bit of shade of the mommy-elect. Below, the mom and dad join Mr. Brown to air it all out before he gives them the verdict of the DNA results... sadly due to the show being taped without an audience and the guests joining them via Zoom, we won't have the obligatory dance if he is "...not the father."
Guest hosting Maury hasn't been the only big national TV appearance for Karamo this winter: as the traditional network schedule and production to top scripted shows have been upended by the pandemic, ABC has brought its traditional summer lineup of primetime game shows to the winter. And Brown got to appear in not one, but two of them... both being celebrity versions in Wheel of Fortune and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, where all winnings go to the charity of the contestants' choice.
On the ladder back in January, Karamo sat in the Hot Seat across from Jimmy Kimmel where he was asked a difficult question about football during the midst of the Super Bowl madness, while in the ladder he had a chance to fill out and solve a puzzle but just couldn't get over the last hurdle. But tomorrow, Karamo will have a big gig: co-host on E!'s first trip in 2021 to the major awards show red carpet when he will be at a scaled-back edition of the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Hollywood.
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