Popular U.S. TV Psychologist Joyce Brothers Dies At 85

The famous TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at the age of 85 in New York, the Associated Press reports. Her long-running television show dispensed home-spun advice to viewers.

She was a pioneer of the television advice show and first gained fame as a winning contestant on the TV game show, “$The $64,000 Question” in 1955. She was the only woman to win the top prize according to the Associated Press.

By 1958, the same year Joyce Brothers became a licensed psychologist, she had her own TV show on a local New York City station. She then became a nationwide celebrity as the TV host for a series of shows on network television.

TMZ reports that Brothers also did cameo appearances in movies like “Naked Gun,” “C.H.i.P.S.” and has also appeared on TV shows like “The Love Boat.” She has also appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Nanny, Andy Dick Show, Suddenly Susan, The Steve Harvey Show, The Simpsons and Entourage.

She was married to internist Milton Brothers since 1949, he died in 1989, and the couple had a daughter, Lisa.

Joyce Brothers was born in New York City and graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Queens. She earned her PhD in psychology from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University.

Aside from her TV show, Brothers had a column in Good Housekeeping magazine for almost four decades, as well as a syndicated newspaper column that she began writing in 1970, which at its height was printed in more than 300 newspapers. She has also published several best-selling books, including the 1982 book, What Every Woman Should Know About Men, and the 1992 book, Widowed, which was inspired by the loss of her husband.

Joyce Brothers was the ninth-most frequent guest on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

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