AFTER 25 YEARS, JUDGE JUDY IS HAVING ITS FINAL, BUT JUDY SHEINDLIN HAS NO INTENTION TO RETIRE FROM TV
In the 25 years of airing, Judge Judy has a special place in their viewers hearts, as they got three Emmys in their airing time.
“I’m not tired. I don’t play golf or tennis. I have no desire to learn how to play mahjong, chess or checkers. I know what I like to do,” said 79-year-old Judy Sheindlin in her interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
She was born in 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. As she had described, her father was an ordinary dentist, and her mother was a, “meat-and-potatoes kind of gal.”
After graduating from James Madison High School in New York, she had attended to American University in Washington, DC. After there, she had her law degree from New York Law School.
As she graduated in 1965, she started to work for as a lawyer in a cosmetic firm. But two years later, she had left her job as a lawyer.
She had married with Ronald Levy in 1964, and had two children with him. Jamie and Adam.
“I was 20, almost 21. So I became a mom … All my friends were getting married, there was still those pressures even in those years”
“My first husband is a lovely, lovely man but he always viewed my job as a hobby and there came a time where I resented that,” she said about her husband, Ronald Levy, whom she divorced with in 1976.
In the same year, she had married with Jerry Sheindlin, and welcomed his children as a stepmother, Nicole, Gregory, and Jonathan Sheindlin.
Back in 1990, they had divorced, but married a year later, again. Today, they are together for 45 years.
”I spoil them,” she said about her grandchildren.
“I’m trying to think of how we don’t, but the answer is we do. We don’t even think we’re doing it, but their parents are very smart. They try to put the skids on it.”
After she had appeared in 60 Minutes, she had received an offer for her own show. and the Judge Judy legend was born.
Back in 2020, she had stated that her show is going to end. She had talked with Ellen, as she stated, CBS, “wanted to optimally utilize the repeats of my program, because now they have 25 years of reruns”.
“I like to see things tied up in a bow. Perhaps that’s the reason for ending the show after 25 years,”
“Nobody says, “Oh, they did that show 27 years.” That’s not a number! Plus, it’s always good to leave everybody wanting a little bit more.”
“Why, at my stage in life, would I try to find something else when I already know what I like?” she continued.
“And this isn’t a 9-to-5 job. I’ve still got the time to see the children I love, the grandchildren who are growing up very fast and the cute mate who I still get a kick out of.”
“Give me a robe and a case, and I’ll do my job. I had wonderful people producing and directing the Judge Judy program, and a couple of them will be following me to Amazon. That will keep my life on a steady keel.”
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