Through his wildly successful TV show, Jerry Springer turned warring families and dysfunctional relationships into visual entertainment for the masses, helping to create a new idea of celebrity. The US broadcaster and politician, who has died aged 79, was a campaign adviser to Robert F. Kennedy, worked as a journalist and served as mayor of Cincinnati in the state of Ohio. But he will be best remembered for hosting The Jerry Springer Show, which ran from 1991 until 2018 in the US. Jerry Springer made his stage debut as Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (Ian West/PA) — © Ian...