Maury Povich reveals he watches reruns of ‘Maury’

You are not the father!

Maury Povich occasionally watches reruns of his long-running talk show, Maury, when he has no recollection of the episodes. The journalist and TV personality shared as much on the debut episode of his podcast On Par With Maury Povich, when his wife and inaugural guest Connie Chung asked how he felt about ending the show in 2022 after 31 landmark seasons.

“That was two years ago,” Povich said in response. “Don’t you think you could’ve asked me earlier?” 

Chung quipped, “Well, you didn’t have a podcast.”

“I’m happy that the show ended,” Povich said. “It ended at the right time because it’s not really over. If I turn on the TV, every single day, there’s the show. And sometimes I watch because I can’t remember that segment.”

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Chung said, “And you want to find out who the baby daddy is.”

“Yeah,” Povich said. “Just like everybody else.”

The nationally syndicated talk show debuted in 1991 and explored often volatile family dynamics and issues, notably featuring paternity and lie detector tests in front of a rapturous studio audience. The series made Povich the longest-running daytime talk show host in TV history and a pop culture staple.

The tabloid nature of the talk show aside, Povich began his career as a broadcast journalist, working as a reporter and sportscaster for station WTTG in Washington, D.C. It was there that he met Chung, a trailblazing journalism icon in her own right as the first Asian American woman to anchor a major network broadcast — though they were not an item at that time. He also hosted news programs such as Panorama and A Current Affair before his tenure on Maury.

Povich has called his new podcast a return to those roots. “I began my career with a microphone in hand and a passion for asking questions that mattered. After six decades in television, On Par brings me back to the heart of it all — journalism,” he said in a statement announcing the new venture. “This podcast is a return to where it all began, a chance to reflect on what I’ve learned and to have meaningful conversations with remarkable people who continue to shape the world around us.”

New episodes of On Par with Maury Povich drop on Mondays. Watch the inaugural episode featuring Chung above.