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Daytime TV's Biggest Hosts Transform for Halloween 2022
It's the extremity of an epoch successful daytime TV.
Dr. Phil will accidental goodbye erstwhile its existent play comes to a adjacent aboriginal this year, E! News confirms.
Hosted by Dr. Phil McGraw, the daytime speech amusement premiered successful September 2002 and has tally successful syndication for 21 seasons.
"I person been blessed with implicit 25 fantastic years successful daytime television," McGraw said successful a connection connected Jan. 31. "With this show, we person helped thousands of guests and millions of viewers done everything from addiction and matrimony to intelligence wellness and raising children. This has been an unthinkable section of my beingness and career, but portion I'm moving connected from daytime, determination is truthful overmuch much I privation to do."
In caller years, the 72-year-old has diversified his resume wrong the amusement industry. He is presently an enforcement shaper connected CBS' So Help Me Todd, starring Skylar Astin and Marcia Gay Harden. McGraw besides hosts 2 podcasts, Phil successful the Blanks and Mystery & Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil.
News of the Dr. Phil's swan opus comes astir a twelvemonth aft the amusement faced allegations of mistreatment connected set. In February 2022, Buzzfeed News published a study citing aggregate past and current Dr. Phil staffers who elaborate experiences of verbal abuse, fearfulness and intimidation portion connected the job.
None of the staffers, astir of whom spoke to the outlet anonymously, said they saw McGraw prosecute successful the circumstantial behavior, but made allegations astir a civilization of toxicity.
In abstracted statements to E! News astatine the time, reps for both McGraw and the amusement denied the allegations, calling the study a "clickbait story."
McGraw got his commencement arsenic a regular impermanent connected The Oprah Winfrey Show, archetypal appearing successful April 1998. He and Oprah Winfrey became acquainted erstwhile the speech amusement queen hired McGraw's ineligible consulting steadfast to hole her for her 1998 libel proceedings involving a radical of Texas cattlemen, stemming from Winfrey's comments astir huffy cattle illness connected an occurrence of her speech show.
After becoming a instrumentality favourite connected Winfrey's show, the mogul helped Phil make his ain daytime empire by launching Dr. Phil nether her Harpo Productions umbrella.
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Dr. Phil airs successful syndication regular crossed the country. The last occurrence of the amusement volition aerial aboriginal this year.
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