Steve Wilkos: 'My Stomach Was Turning' During Teen Incest Story, but No Regrets

By Rob Shuter Posted May 19th 2011 05:00PM

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Wilkos has come under fire in recent days for featuring a disturbing story of an 18-year-old girl who is having a full-blown sexual relationship with her biological father. They go so far as to make out on camera and the likes of Perez Hilton are asking how Steve "stooped down this far." Now, Steve, who cut his teeth as the bouncer on 'Jerry Springer,' is fighting back telling me he is proud of the show even though it made him sick to do it.

"I knew it was going to be a show people watched and we've gotten a lot of response to it. People found it hard to believe. I was nauseated and my stomach was turning, but we do shows to help people," Steve tells me. "We speak out. This stuff really happens. Would you rather I not try and speak some sense into this young woman? You could pretend it's not happening."

Adds Steve, "I chose to expose it and I'm not going to turn my back."

36 Days Later, He Had Them Back On ...

'The Steve Wilkos Show' aired, in two parts, the story of Morgan and his biological daughter Britney, who reconnected through Myspace when she was 16 and started to have a relationship. To the horror of the audience the kin greeted each there with a long kiss on stage.

"What's sad about this story is that this young woman, who is sleeping with her father, was abused by other men sexually," Steve tells me. "She got bounced around and you would think when she reconnected with him, he would protect her. Instead he piled on and abused her too. She is seeking a man to take care of her."

At the end of the show, Steve gave Britney the opportunity to leave her dad and go and get professional help for the abuse she had suffered her whole life. But instead she took her father's hand and vowed to stand by him.

"It's pathetic and sad," Steve admits.

Steve was a familiar and lovable part of Jerry Springer's still-going-strong talk show and got his big break when Jerry did 'Dancing With The Stars' and Steve filled in as the host. He admits that producers didn't think Jerry would last long on the hit ABC show.

"They thought Jerry would be the first to get voted off. He ended up dancing for five weeks and I hosted a lot of shows that rated well," Steve tells me. "I still see Jerry once or twice a month and we have dinner or a cigar. He's one of the greatest human beings. No ego. He treats everyone with respect and has more manners than anyone I have ever met in my life."

Steve, who has just had his caricature added to the famous wall of The Palm restaurant, is having the time of his life and is thrilled his parents can enjoy his success. "I'm proud of my show. I hear critics, but I get people come up and tell me he all the time that I'm helping. People see I'm trying."

Tags: Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, The Steve Wilkos Show

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Thursday 19 May

By Dr. M

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All for the sake of "shock value." Very sad story. I missed how old she is now. Still Sweet 16 (or under 18)? Is her father going to take her to the prom? Buy her a corsage? Go steady with her? Maybe get married some day? Have inbred kids together? Our culture is getting sicker and sicker by the day. Utterly sad story.

By Cindy Stauffer

She is 18, and they claimed the sexual relationship did not begin until she was 18.......regardless this is beyond sick and that man has no right to call himself a father (or a human being)

By Weedster

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It must be that goofy tattoo on his neck that was his daughter over.

By NAUGHTY BUT NICE ROB

STEVE IS A GOOD GUY.

By Patty

This story is so nasty. How gross. The father needs to be arrested and the daughter needs help because she is just as crazy as her father. OMG

By JustSaying

She been abused. She's just 18. She's looking for a man to take care of her and sex is the only thing she knows to "exchange" for being taken care.

I get that.

But what's the father's freakin' problem? He should know better.

Thursday 02 June

By Lynette

Her father is sick, he is a child molester, he groomed her until he got her where he wanted her, he know exactually what he was doing, that is how they work. She is a victum, all she wanted was to be loved, not to be used and abused. Same thing happen to me when I was 16 and met my birth father for the first time. I just wanted to be daddy little girl, not his girl friend, but some love at the time was better then none.

By Melissa

I think Steve is great and does try to help people. This certain case is very sick, I wish it were illegal. Both father and daughter are crazy! Hopefully the girl wises up and gets help but sadly it's probably too little too late for her to ever have a descent life. But nothing is ever 100% hopeless if someone really wants to change their life.

By teeter54

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you go steve!you are so so AWSOME!!!

By GBS1713

I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE HAVE THEY HEAD IN THE SAND. PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING ON EVERY DAY WITH PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. STEVE WAS TRYING TO HELP AND EDUCATED. PEOPLE NOW WILL KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR WARNING SIGNS THAT THIS IS GOING ON. FATHERS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES THAT DOES THAT. BE GRATEFUL WE HAVE SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT CARES

Saturday 21 May

By Fuzzy Navyman

Steve's show is fantastic ! What a great guy !

By jaguar8450

You could see that Steve was at a lost for words at times with this sick and twisted pair. And what he did managed to say to the both went "whiiippp!" right over their heads. Since this one sexually and emotionally abused young girl is of legal age, the father needs to be investigated for his past relationships with other female minors including any other children that he fathered in the past because this is not normal. Your father does not prey on your emotions for sexual acts.

By Julymoon

It is still illeagl in the Unites States for this sic action why wasn't any cop there to arrest the sic very sic Dad.

By Mike

I believe that Steve does help people. This is a sick story. I mean, I can see why the girl wants sex. She was "suckered in" to the relationship and I do not blame her. I blame the father. He should know better. As "Justsaying" said, "She was abused". And GBS1713, Why are you "YELLING" ????".

By Anna

The well known artist and writer Anais Nin had a full blown sexual relationship with her father Joaquin Nin (While she was peripherally involved with Henry Miller). She too had been abandoned by her father as a very young child. This is a disgusting manifestation of sexual misconduct and abuse of a vulnerable young woman wanting validation. However, it does happen and to a certain extent needs to be exposed because that is the only way the perpetrators of this sort of crime against their daughters can be revealed, and the opportunity for the daughters to get help be offered.

By me

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Are you people morons or what? This is a fixed story, totally made up. This guy learned from the best - Jerry Springer - about how to make up false stories for ratings. You idiots are so naive.

Friday 20 May

By Cano

You are the stupied one if he says he does it 4 real then duh it is.

Friday 09 September

By christ

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. It amazes me that people actually believe these stories. These so called victims and molesters are PAID ACTORS. This show is NOT REAL. It frightens me how brainwashed and brain dead the people who watch these shows are.

By Alibobbu

was her name Mackenzie?

Thursday 09 June

By lanie

Britany and her dad is morgan

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