MAURY POVICH is a retired American television personality, best known for hosting the tabloid talk show Maury, which aired from 1991 to 2022. Povich began his career as a radio reporter and in the late 1980s gained national fame as the host of the tabloid infotainment TV show A Current Affair, based at Fox’s New York flagship station WNYW and later national syndication in 1988. In 1991 he co-produced his own show, The Maury Povich Show, which in 1998 was rebranded as Maury. Povich then headed to CBS-owned KNXT in Los Angeles – where in the late ’70s he briefly co-anchored alongside his future wife, Connie Chung, whom he married in 1984.