In all the years he did late night, one of the things you had to respect about David Letterman was that he never shied away from making his feelings about a guest perfectly clear, which often made for some spectacularly awkward and engrossing interviews. It will probably come as little surprise that Letterman similarly did not bullsh*t around with people off camera, and if he didn’t like you, you were probably well aware.
DNA and lie detector test expert Maury Povich unfortunately learned this the hard way, as he told Howard Stern on Monday that the former Late Show host unequivocally did not like him. When Howard pointed out that Letterman apparently used to be “in love with” [Povich’s wife of 32 years] Connie Chung, Maury replied, “Oh my lord, and hated me! He used to call me Murray, Morty, Marty…” Apparently back in the ’80s, Chung was a regular fill-in for Letterman when guests would cancel, because she was right upstairs in the NBC studios. But not once was Maury himself invited on: “He just thought A Current Affair was trash, I think.”
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Later in the show, Maury revealed that even when Letterman would host his regular Christmas parties, he refused to talk to him (but ostensibly had to invite him because he was Chung’s date). Oddly enough, Letterman’s infatuation with Connie Chung is documented all the way back in a Baltimore Sun article from 1993, in which the daytime host described it as “unbridled, lustful obsession,” with “quiet rejection” on his wife’s part. Ouch.
Maury also discussed why he thinks he’s generally been ostracized as being a late night guest — and not just on Letterman — due to the “trashy” nature of his show. Well, you know what they say about one man’s trash being another man’s treasure. If it weren’t for Maury, we’d never know that Ted Cruz had a doppelganger out there, is all I’m saying.
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