Family Feud has had many hosts over its run. But one host finally had enough with what the show was becoming. John O'Hurley decided to leave the show in 2010 after taking issue with the show's format.
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Steve Harvey replaced him, launching the show into a new era of popularity. Appearing on The Game Show Starring Bradley Clarke, O'Hurley explained that he left the show because he had other things that he wanted to do.
"It was a tough decision, but they were moving the show from shooting in L.A. to shooting down at Universal, down in Florida, and I wasn't really pleased about that because it was tough enough to coordinate the filming of the show with all the other demands that I had, not the least of which was the fact that I was doing quite a bit of Broadway at the time," O'Hurley explained.
'Family Feud' Host Quits
"It was very difficult for me to coordinate the two because I had 14 weekends a year that I had to commit to The Family Feud," he continued. "Now, if I had to travel to Florida every time I wanted to do one of those weekends, well, now I'm adding in travel days, another 30 days away from home just for travel, in addition to the two days that it would take to shoot it."
However, that wasn't the only reason that the host left Family Feud. He took issue with what the show was becoming.
"I was getting a lot of... you know, they blame the host for whatever the show is. Truth-wise, I had very little to do with the content of the show, except to put my hand up and say, 'I won't do that,' because, as I said, and I meant it when I said it, the show had become kind of a penis joke," he explained.
"It wasn't the family orientation that it was. Everything was looking for the sexual double entendre, all the time, and it was even getting a little too demonstrative," he continued. "And I just felt that this was always a show you could watch with your family. In fact, in most syndicated arenas, it was on at 6 p.m., and that was a popular family show to watch. But I was getting so many letters from people all around the country, saying, 'I can't watch this with my family anymore. It's making me answer questions that I don't want to answer.' "
