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 emeathead

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I just googled the laws on this. It varies from state to state. Some states up to 20 years, others not illegal at all. If the dad doesn`t go to jail for this, a large group of vigilantes should at least hold him down and nueter him so they don`t have any inbred kids.

By Florence Colon

THEY BOTH SHOULD GO TO JAIL. INCEST IS NO LAUGHING MATTER. READ THE BIBLE...

By cwchef21

WTF tis is discusting/real or fake it doesn't matter it is absolutely wrong on this guy and this now 18 year old girl. This type of stuff really does happen and I believe Steve was right for airing it. For the love of Carma!! this guy will get his and hopefully this young girl gets the help she needs!!

By Rob

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Steve Wilkos is the dumbest slowest nitwit ever to have a talk show since Ricki Lake. Lake and Wilkos are two people who have no intelligent insights on anything. Dumb as bricks! They got away with this contentious episode because I am sure that no one with double digit IQs would ever stop and watch this garbage brand of supposed entertainment. The only entertainment value that the show has is listening to Wilkos absolute brainlessness. He is the poster boy for why bouncers are thought of as big dumb brutes. Have I made my point clear?

By Barbara

You have made the point that you are a very unkind and rude individual...!

Friday 20 May

By Cano

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Yeah well you did watch as well right so you are just as stupied as everybody who watches. You are a very rude mean individual good luck in life.

Friday 09 September

By chris

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YES!!!!! Great to see an intelligent post.

By Dan

Incest is against the law. This father should be arrested.

By KG

If the daughter cries rape, that her father had sex with her before the age of 18, and if there are laws for incest after 18 years of age, or domestic violence, then Steve could have this degenerate arrested and should! This disgusting pig, didn't have a relationship with his daughter before she or he reached out to her at age 17, when she went to live with him, and he looked at her with lust, not love of a father! Because she doesn't know of support groups, shelters or fear of losing the only ties to family, and her biological father knowing this,is preying on her vulnerabilty! Domestic Violence is against the law, as is incest! She may not want him arrested, but both admitted to having sex with each other, and she wanting to get pregnant by him! This young lady is in a mental state, and someone does need to rescue her and lock that predator up! Lord, only knows why he didn't have a relationship with her growing up? Does he have a prior record for pedophilia or rape? How sad this man is controlling his own flesh & blood, his biological daughter!

By JEB BUCKINGHAM

Isn't incest against the law? It doesn't matter if these are two legal-age consenting adults. Isn't there a prosecuter somewhere who will take on this spectacle?

By Deb

This is some of the worst acting I have ever seen .......... but having said that ... still disgusting for the show to air it.

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Florence, please take your bible and insert it in your colon! I am sick and tired of people's stupidity. Jesus may have actually been a guy who lived back then but he wasn't God's son and therefore God! He was a nut job! If someone was wandering around your town spouting the things that this guy did and some guys wrote a book about it, would you believe he was God and God's son? He would quickly be placed in a mental institution, which is where he would belong and had they known better back then,it is where Jesus should have ended up! I don't need to read a book to know the difference between right and wrong but frankly I have just about had it with organized religion and the people who believe literally in made up fairy tales in a freaking book. Children by age 10 or 11 are finally mature enough to grasp that Santa Claus can't possibly exist and perform the miraculous trek around the world in a night. Then, their parents send them to Sunday school and expect them to believe in another bunch of childish fantasies. No one on this planet knows how we got here or where we are going, if anywhere at all, when we die. It is the only rational approach to admit that you just don't know like the rest of us. If you believe in pearly gates that is a form of insanity! "Incest is no laughing matter!" Thanks for the info because I wasn't too sure if laughing hysterically was the right approach? But wait, if I read the bible, then, I would know! The book of ancient fairy tales would give me the answer that I could not possibly figure out on my own!

Tuesday 24 May

By Aslinn Dhan

It makes me wonder why you spent so much time blasting something you don't believe in. I don't agree with Florence, but I think you and people like you spend an awful lot of time yammering about what you consider a myth. If you don't believe, don't. Otherwise, STFU

By brune.a1771

I like the way you are opinionaited, everyone is entitled to it, but you really take it to the extream dont you think? Oh wait no, no you dont beccause of your "brainlessness'' (reffering back to your last post aswell.) Maybe you should reconsider trying to preach when you dont know how.. ok? God is the almighty. You will reap what you have sown.

By JJ

Incest is illegal. Why aren't they in jail yet?????

By Andrea

Can you say, "hoax?" I don't believe either one of them. I think they are actors, and not very good ones. They just wanted to get on TV, and they got their wish.

By ilea

I tried to say the same thing, but this website won't print it.

Okay, it printed that. Let's see if this gets on here. If they are not actors, then I think they are trying to fool everyone, and are actually married. Someone should check it out. Please, Popeater, post this.

By travelergtoo

Why doesn't Steve and the other talk shows do any programs on how the International Banks and CEOs have raped and robbed this country blind?

By steve

It is all fake. Listen if he can show me a actual degree in socialogy or being a doctor or psycharist then I will believe it that he can help people. But he has to show some kind of degree. He loves yelling at people and throwing chairs around and Springer is just turned into a old man hooked on Viagra. That is all thier shows are about anyways. It is all just fake.

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