Tabloid TV king Maury Povich, 87, finally breaks his silence on plastic surgery and wig rumors

Maury Povich addressed longtime rumors about plastic surgery procedures and wearing wigs.

On Monday's episode of his podcast, On Par with Maury Povich, the television personality, 87, broke his silence about speculation on his appearance over the years. 

When his podcast guest, fellow talk show veteran Ricki Lake, 57, asked if he had ever undergone any plastic surgery procedures, Povich candidly replied: 'Zero.' 

The former talk show host admitted that he 'wanted to do some things over the years' but hesitated to do so. 

Povich also insisted that he does not wear a wig and said his full head of hair is completely real. 

'I don't know how,' he said. 'I mean, even my father's hair, he lived until 92, it thinned out.' 

He continued: 'My brother's hair thinned out. My sister has hair like yours, perfect hair.' 

During their conversation about 'aging like fine wine,' Lake said she did not consider her hair 'perfect' but said she was very 'grateful.'

Not only does she 'feel good in [her] body,' she said she is 'really happy.' 

Lake also opened up about how she previously got a face and neck lift after losing 40 pounds and clarified that she did not get any other procedures done. 

She underwent the procedure in the summer of 2024 and opened up about her experience on Povich's podcast as well as last month.

'I had just lost 40 pounds, and I had this, this, this, hanging,' she said on the March 16 episode of The Inside Edit while grabbing at her neck. 

'It wasn't just like, that I didn't like what I saw or wanted to look younger,' she explained. 'I have gray hair. It's not about that. It's like I had an appendage hanging that wasn't going to grow back, like come back up.'

She credited her healthy visage and her weight loss transformation to hiking daily in Malibu, Pilates, intermittent fasting and having a chef help her with a keto diet. 

This comes after The Maury Show concluded after 31 seasons in late 2022.

Povich, who was known for conducting lie detector tests and doing paternity test reveals, has since retired from his talk show duties.

However, he launched his podcast in March 2025 as a platform to let fans get to know him more and to 'create a safe space' with guests he invited on his show. 

'A lot of the guests came on the show because they felt they could relieve their burden,' he said about his talk show, which ran for over three decades from 1991 to 2022. 

'They felt that they could create a safe space with me and that I was a good person to talk to,' he told People at the time. 

'It was almost like I was a member of their family,' he continued. 'I didn't have the opportunity to talk about myself and my feelings and my experiences.' 

Povich also reflected on how he started in news journalism before becoming a talk show host. 

'For the past 30-plus years, everybody has thought of me as a kind of a talk show host who [discusses] certain themes,' he explained. 

'That was a great career, and I love the storytelling, and I think that I was able to do successfully because of my earlier career as a journalist and a storyteller when it came to news, and rather traditional talk shows that I did,' he added.

'If I was sitting at a desk back anchoring a newscast, I would never unveil myself. And so this is, I think, a perfect medium.'