Jerry Springer Was Born in a London Subway Station During World War II

Jerry Springer is best known for very explosive TV show, but his entrance into the world was no less dramatic. When Springer was born in London in 1944, it was the middle of World War II and his mother gave birth to him in Highgate subway station, which was being used as a bomb shelter at the time. “During the war, women who were in their ninth month would often spend the night in the subway stations because those were the bomb shelters,” Springer explained to the BBC.