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Jenny Jones (Presenter)Janina Stranski (June 7, 1946 in Bethlehem, Mandate Palestine-) was the host of a television talk show called Jenny Jones which aired in the United States from 1991 to 2003. The show was taped in Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after she was born to her parents, who were from Russia and Poland, they immigrated to Canada. She appeared as a contestant on Press Your Luck and Match Game. In 1986, she was the first female comedian to win Star Search. She is a former backup singer for Wayne Newton. She also plays the drums. She speaks the Polish language fluently. In 1991 she became the host of her own daily TV talk show, the Jenny Jones Show. The show established many of the now most cliched elements of daytime talk, including shows themed around paternity tests, makeovers, "geek to chic" transformations, and on-air revelations of secret crushes. Her television show was cancelled in 2003, after years of plummeting ratings, because of the murder of a homosexual man, Scott Amedure, on March 9, 1995. Amedure confessed his love for another man, Jonathan Schmitz, on the show just three days prior (as part of the episode "Same-Sex Secret Crushes"); Schmitz later killed Amedure. Schmitz went to trial twice and was twice found guilty of second degree murder. External links Jones, Jenny Jones, Jenny Jones, Jenny
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