Maury Povich Watches ‘Maury’ Reruns to Discover Out Who’s the Father

• Maury Povich spoke to spouse Connie Chung on the primary episode of his new podcast, On Par with Maury Povich
• Within the episode, Chung requested her husband if he is completely happy he ended his discuss present Maury again in 2022
• Povich confirmed that he’s — however that it does not really feel prefer it ended because it’s nonetheless on TV. He additionally defined why he typically finally ends up watching previous episodes

It’s been a perpetual behavior of TV viewers in all places for greater than 30 years: flipping via the channels and catching elements of an episode of Maury. However now host Maury Povich is admitting he’s a type of folks, too.

Povich, 86, opened up about rewatching episodes of his present on the primary episode of his On Par with Maury Povich podcast, launched March 31. His spouse Connie Chung was his first visitor.

Through the episode, Chung, 78, requested her husband if he was okay with retiring from Maury. The present ran from 1991 to 2022, when Povich retired, for a whopping 5,545 episodes. Most of the episodes featured a mom searching for a paternity check to find out who the daddy of the kid was. When Povich would learn out the outcomes, he’d paradoxically intone, ”You are the daddy” or “You’re not the daddy.”

Povich confirmed that he was glad he retired, however joked together with his spouse, “That was two years in the past. Don’t you suppose you might’ve requested me earlier?” “Effectively, you did not have a podcast,” Chung mentioned with amusing. 

“I am completely happy that the present ended,” Povich mentioned. “It ended on the proper time, as a result of it’s probably not over. As a result of if I activate the TV, each single day, there’s the present. “

“And typically, I watch as a result of I am unable to do not forget that section,” Povich added, laughing. 

“You need discover out who the child daddy is,” Chung mentioned. “Yeah,” Povich confirmed, “identical to all people else.”

Chung mentioned that she doesn’t like when she sees movies of the present on social media and the tales are break up into segments. “They cease the story earlier than we discover out who the child daddy is,” she mentioned. 

“That is half one. There is a half two,” Povich mentioned. “You simply gotta look forward to that. That is the kicker. It’s the tease.”

Maury was the longest-running daytime discuss present with one host in American historical past.

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“A variety of the friends got here on the present as a result of they felt they may relieve their burden,” Povich advised PEOPLE about beginning his podcast. “They felt that they may create a protected house with me and that I used to be a superb particular person to speak to, and it was nearly like I used to be a member of their household. I did not have the chance to speak about myself and my emotions and my experiences.”

However earlier than Povich began Maury, he labored for years as a broadcast journalist, finally internet hosting the present A Present Affair.

“For the previous 30-plus years, all people has considered me as a type of a chat present host who [discusses] sure themes,” he mentioned. “That was an ideal profession and I like the storytelling, and I believe that I used to be capable of do it efficiently due to my earlier profession as a journalist and a storyteller when it got here to information, and moderately conventional discuss exhibits that I did.”

Povich married Chung, whom he met after they have been each working journalists in Washington, D.C., in 1984. They share son Matthew Povich. He additionally has two daughters, Susan and Amy, from his first marriage. Chung printed a memoir, Connie, in 2024.