In an unlikely career move, Jerry Springer is to swap American TV for the London stage after accepting the part of lawyer Billy Flynn in the West End musical Chicago.
The onetime Mayor of Cincinnati turned lowbrow chat show host will begin a six-week run at the Cambridge Theatre in June, but today acknowledged he was a strange choice for the role.
“I have a voice for newspapers and a face for radio,” he joked.
“When I sing the audience really gets involved because they will have to guess where the notes were supposed to have been.”
But the London-born 65-year-old, whose chat show frequently attracts controversy and accusations of exploitation, said he planned to have vocal training and thought it was “a do-able role.”