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Even by daytime TV standards, Dr. Phil lives on in infamy. A psychologist once promoted by Oprah Winfrey<\/a>, Dr. Phil McGraw<\/a> was hit with several lawsuits during the show\u2019s 21-season run, and the production was lambasted by critics, guests, staffers, and observers. \u201cThe legacy of Dr. Phil<\/a> is a cautionary tale,\u201d addiction activist Ryan Hampton<\/a> told The Daily Beast in 2023 upon the announcement of the show\u2019s impending end. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just his attitude and his approach, which was everything we\u2019re taught not to do. He never really approached a situation with compassion.\u201d Taylor Cole Miller<\/a>, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Wisconsin-La…<\/div>\n

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Even by daytime TV standards, Dr. Phil lives on in infamy. A psychologist once promoted by Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil McGraw was hit with several lawsuits during the show\u2019s 21-season run, and the production was lambasted by critics, guests, staffers, and observers. \u201cThe legacy of Dr. Phil is a cautionary tale,\u201d addiction activist Ryan Hampton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2305568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/These-\u2018Dr-Phil-Controversies-Illustrate-Why-the-Show-Was-So.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305570,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305568\/revisions\/2305570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}