![]() ![]() Judge Judy understands that some people change when they see the light, but most people change only when they feel the heat.” She holds people to account for their bad behavior. ![]() “But she knows love isn’t just about tenderness sometimes love is best expressed by a swift kick in the tush. “She is the epitome of tough love,” Gallagher says. Gallagher, author of Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Other Women. “Judge Judy is America’s Jewish mother,” says B.J. ![]() Studio executives and scholars, though, say Sheindlin has tapped into something more layered. All for a 22-minute show, unscripted, as rigidly structured as a game show. Her contract renewal through 2013 (and $20 million raise over 2007’s salary) makes her Forbes’ 72nd-richest celebrity in Hollywood. I mean, when it comes down to it, it’s just TV.” “Look, you do this long enough and you learn what’s really important in your life,” Sheindlin says. Sheindlin’s five children and their families routinely fly in Grandma’s private jet, which ferries them to the small courtroom set, cloaked in Warehouse 5 at Los Angeles news station KTLA. (It can be jarring to see the 5-foot-2 spark plug stop in mid-rant to bob her head to the children’s ringtone, Bette Midler’s syrupy hit Friends.) She cannot control herself with her 11 grandchildren, whom she concedes she spoils rotten. to watch Sheindlin’s one TV addiction, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (the episodes with Vincent D’Onofrio, not that Jeff Goldblum fellow). She and her husband, Jerry Sheindlin (who served two years as judge over The People’s Court), summer in Connecticut and winter in Florida. She may work 52 days a year as America’s favorite judge, jury and hector, but the 67-year-old can be every part grandmother and semi-retiree. If I can learn that in elementary school, why can’t (others)?”īut spend a couple of days in her courtroom, and it’s clear that Sheindlin isn’t all fang and claw. “It’s pronounced library,” she says of one of her pet peeves. Now Sheindlin, who once mused how nice it would be to last a decade in television, enters her 15th year in syndication with a $45-million-a-year contract and no less contempt for scammers, swindlers and sinners against the English language. Judy has been the top-rated daytime show 24 out of the past 29 weeks and has beaten Oprah 13 of the past 15. Judy averaged 6.6 million viewers a day in the past TV season, up 7 percent, vs. She’s hotter than ever, topping even Oprah Winfrey as television’s No. Since she premiered on television in 1996, Sheindlin has become more than the queen of courtroom TV. “How can you be that stupid? Did he forget he had me today?” All come after Sheindlin is out of earshot.īack in her office, she takes off the robe, pulls back a few strands of hair and drops behind her desk. The defendant, whose name is contractually kept undisclosed until the show airs, lets fly a stream of obscenities, some in English, some Spanish. You’re paying your debts.” She leans over to longtime bailiff Petri Hawkins-Byrd. When you lie as long as he has, it just gets to be a habit, doesn’t it? Don’t look at your wife. “God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason!” Sheindlin bellows at the man and his wife, who stand accused of defaulting on a loan. “Excuse me?” she asks, raising an eyebrow, giving that look like you just interrupted her putt. Sheindlin - Judge Judy to anyone who owns a television set - stiffens in her seat, not sure what she just heard. The courtroom goes quiet as spectators realize the man is done for. “I never lie!” he says, raising his voice and a finger Judith Sheindlin’s way. LOS ANGELES - The defendant has stepped in it now. ![]()
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