Posted on 11/13/2017 5:07:08 PM PST by EdnaMode
Several thousand former female Family Feud contestants have come forward to join the #MeToo movement. In a unprecedented event, the late Family Feud host Richard Dawson has been caught in archived footage kissing female contestants on the lip.
"I should have come forward decades ago, but I must speak out now," said one contestant.
"He had bad breath and I felt icky afterwards"
Meanwhile Dawson was unavailable for comments.
That word is sprinkled throughout this thread and seeing it triggered me. I'm so sick of that word.
My apologies. I should have addressed my general comment to "all."
“You look pissed,Ben.”
Best one liner in any Arnold movie, and it wasn’t Arnold who said it....
Ah, thanks.
Joe Biden should do a Show like that on Nickelodeon.
How about Colonel Robert Hogan and every female co-star?
Richard Dawson was an amazing fellow. Perhaps no one else became so beloved on two different game shows: Match Game and Family Feud.
There was a pretty good documentary about Match Game some years ago. Now available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkkxJ4zn3qY
Dawson took the show very personally and wanted to win as much money of the contestants as possible. He knew they were often everyday people who good really use cash. He took it so personally - and was so driven to succeed on the show - that several memorable meltdowns occurred: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84
Richard Dawson discusses meeting his wife on Family Feud -EMMYTVLEGENDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0omZ72KieM
And here’s Dawson’s wife from when she first appeared on the show and a later appearance with their daughter (perhaps Dawson’s last appearance?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuudDLU5NfY She was a pretty later. I can see why he was interested in her.
#MeToo - I thought he was creepy!
I suspect that Dawson was a raging alcoholic. I met him once at an advertising association affair around 1980. The group had loads of money and brought Dawson in to do a special version of the game for all the local advertising/PR freaks. Before his act was due on stage, I went to the men’s room and there was Dawson stumbling at a urinal. Half his pee missed the porcelain. When I tried to engage him in conversation, he told me to “f*ck off”. He stunk of whiskey. Canadian, no doubt. A real prick of the first order.
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