Richard Dominick

Dominick also served in the same capacity on The Steve Wilkos Show for its first season, as well as the truTV police series Bait Car.

His next career move was into journalism for the Weekly World News and Sun where he reported on stories like "Toaster Possessed by the Devil" and "Howdy Doody Dummy Comes Alive and Saves Drowning Man."

Later, he served as a producer for a 1990 syndicated revival of the TV series House Party, which was hosted by future Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy.

Dominick has also made his mark as a freelance writer for such publications as National Lampoon, Cracked and Penthouse where, on assignment in 1990, he traveled the entire United States in search of Elvis Presley Dominick made seven appearances on Late Night with David Letterman where he discussed with Dave his tabloid stories such as “Toaster Possessed by the Devil” and “I Was Bigfoot’s Love Slave”.

Around this time, Jerry Springer was on the verge of being cancelled, prompting Dominick to take drastic action with regards to the show's format.

In September 2007, former Jerry Springer bodyguard Steve Wilkos started his own show, taking on predators and bad parents.