Jerry Springer Show’s adult babies now – burlesque job, grisly death and wheelchair sex

The Jerry Springer show wasn’t exactly known for its nuand.

That was no more true than during its episode featuring several ‘adult babies’. Though communities of ‘littles’ have now sprung up around the globe, featuring adults who ‘regress’ in age to when they were small, not much was known about the secretive sphere back in the 90s when the episode originally aired.

And Jerry’s audience were particularly scandalised when grown men were paraded onto the stage dressed in nappies, sucking on dummies and being looked after by their ‘mommies’ – AKA wives.

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Also in attendance was Stephanie, a fashion designer who made clothes for adult babies, and Tommy, founder of the Diaper Pail Friends – a community of adult babies. When one such adult baby soiled his nappy in front of a live audience, he had to be taken backstage to get cleaned up, leaving viewers in uproar.

Another controversial segment saw Jerry Springer camera operators go behind-the-scenes at an adult baby ‘party’, where the babies coloured in pictures, played pat-a-cake and wound up over their ‘mommy’s’ knee for a spanking.

While the audience cackled, one woman sang a lullaby to her husband before stripping him naked, tying his wrists to a crib and sticking a rubber duck in his mouth to stop him talking while she smacked his bare bottom. During the episode, Jerry said: “We’re going to be talking to two married couples, where the husbands like to act like babies.

“One of them does it 24 hours a day, the other has a regular job during the day, acts as an adult but then during recreational periods decides that he’s going to put on a diaper. “Do wives change the diapers?” Jerry wondered, as the wives answered in the affirmative. He commented: “I notice that there are two boy babies up there. Are there women that do this, that act like babies?”

“Ninety percent [are men], yes,” one of the wives confirmed. Explaining more about their lifestyle from a therapeutic point of view, one of the men said: “It’s getting nurturing and stuff that you may not have gotten as a child growing up.

“I grew up with three other siblings, an older sister and two younger brothers. I was potty trained at a very early age and basically forced to grow up to be the man of the house.” But what happened to the adult babies once they left Jerry’s controversial stage? Daily Star investigates…

Tragic death

One of the more tragic cast members of the adult baby episode was William Windsor, who was branded the ‘Baby Man’ after wearing a nappy full-time.

He went under the alter ego HeidiLynn in the baby world – though he was also known as a country singer, performing in Broadway plays including Hair and Jesus Christ, Superstar.

Sadly, William was discovered dead at his home in Arizona back in January 2009, with an autopsy revealing that he died of hypertensive heart disease.

He also suffered from acid reflux and chronic alcoholism, with the autopsy showing that his liver tested positive for 0.11 grams of ethyl alcohol along with pantoprazole, used to treat acid reflux.

In a gruesome report after his autopsy, William’s body was found to be infested with “numerous small live maggots” and “moderate numbers of large, live maggots”.

It went on: “The body is in the putrefactive stages of decomposition”, according to the Phoenix New Times. He was discovered by a postman, and survived by his son, his mother and his 10 siblings.

Wheelchair sex

Adult baby fashion designer Stephanie, better known as Tanqueray, recently released her autobiography and was profiled for Humans of New York, where she confessed she is regularly propositioned by rich men.

The fashion icon, who now uses a wheelchair to get around, confessed: “Lately a lot of young guys have been giving me their business cards. Some of them are rich: lawyers and people in the media. “They’re like, ‘Let’s hang out’. And I’m like, ‘Huh?’ I’m in a wheelchair. What position are they expecting me to get in?”

Though she first rose to notoriety in her famous leopard-print two-piece on Jerry Springer, Stephanie found a whole new audience when she appeared in a viral social media post in 2019, wearing an outrageous fur coat and hat she created herself.

She was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in NYC, but confessed that ever since she was a child she wanted to be a fashion designer.

‘Grandbaby’

Introduced in the original 1992 episode of Jerry Springer’s adult babies, Diaper Pail Friends founder Tommy “liked to be treated like a toddler”, and could be seen sucking his thumb from a playpen on the set.

Though his full name was never given – and Tommy may have been a pseudonym – it was confirmed by various members of the adult baby community that Tommy, who was 61 when he appeared on the show, sadly died some years later.

DPF was a newsletter for members of the community, which also released hypnosis tapes to educate adults on ‘how to become bedwetters’.

He was known as the ‘Grandbaby’ of the AB/DL – that’s Adult Babies/Diaper Lovers – community. On modern forums, Tommy is known as a “pioneer” and a “hero”, with one member writing: “Joining DPF was one of the first experiences that told me I was not a freak.” As another agreed: “He did amazing things for our community.”

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