Guess the 90s Talk Show Icons Yearbook Photo!

One of the reigning talk-show hosts of the 1990s is all but unrecognizable in a high school yearbook photo unearthed by the Daily Mail.

He was born in a London Tube station while his mother was sheltering there , foreshadowing the constant tumult that surrounded his public persona as a TV star decades later.

When he was a little boy, his family moved to , and he graduated from Forest Hills High School in Queens in 1961.

After a political career that saw him serve as Mayor of Cincinnati in the 1970s, he became one of the pioneers of trash TV in the 1990s.

But the innocent-looking, fresh-faced youth in the Forest Hills High School yearbook gave no hint of the infamy he would later hold until his death in 2023 aged 79.

Can you guess who he is?

He is none other than Jerry Springer, whose daytime talk show welcomed feuding ordinary Americans on the air to fight out their differences - often physically.

Gerald Springer was born in 1944 to Jewish parents who had fled Nazi Germany and were living in London when they welcomed him into the world. 

He is none other than Jerry Springer, whose 1990s talk-show welcomed feuding ordinary Americans on the air to fight out their differences - often physically