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Sally Jessy Raphael is looking back at some of her favorite talk show moments and guests in a new YouTube series, Sally Jessy Reflects
In the first episode, the host, 91, enjoys revisiting promos for the show
Raphael also looks back at a promo for her interview with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, which started a friendship between Tammy and Sally Jessy
Sally Jessy Raphael is sharing a look back at her iconic talk show with her fans.
In a new YouTube series, Sally Jessy Reflects, the host, 91, is revisiting some of her favorite moments from her tenure on TV. She began by diving into some of her early promos, laughing at the ideas that her production team believed would bring in viewers. Moments included Raphael getting her hair cut on the show, talking about whether a woman could be vice president and more.
“Man, we were silly,” Raphael says of her early promos.
“You know, I’ve forgotten uh what we were like back then. Kind of funny. and we would sort of do anything… it was early in the morning and it would make you laugh. And that, that was the point of it and that was done when the show first started in St. Louis, Missouri.”
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Another moment Raphael looked back on was her exclusive interview with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, Minn., she had two children — Tammy Sue and Jay — with ex Jim, who she worked alongside as they prayed for sinners on the PTL (Praise the Lord) Network, one of the nation’s first and most successful television ministries.
The network later crashed and burned when Jim was convicted in 1989 of defrauding supporters of his PTL ministry of more than $150 million, including a $265,000 payment to church secretary Hahn to keep quiet about their affair. Tammy divorced Jim while he was in prison and married construction magnate Roe Messner, who had helped build the ministry’s Christian theme park and resort Heritage USA in South Carolina.
As she watched the clip, Raphael shared that the pair “were terribly nice to me.”
“I stayed at their house for a few days, came down for breakfast and sort of lived their family life. I really developed a friendship with Tammy Faye. I always found her fun and witty and a very nice person,” she shared, adding, “And by the way, this was an absolute exclusive at that time.”
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