While many fans complained about his antics, Richard claimed that he received thousands of letters supporting his smooches to the women on the show. However, he added that ABC eventually told him that he had to “stop the kissing.” “And I kissed her on the cheek, and I said, ‘That’s for luck.’ And she said, ‘Asparagus.’” “I said, ‘I’m gonna do something that my mom would do to me whenever I had a problem of any kind,'” the host recalled. Richard, who was the first host of the widely popular game show, once said in an interview with The Television Academy that he began the tradition in order to calm the nerves of women appearing on Family Feud who was so flustered “she couldn’t even name a vegetable.” “And here, again, is evidence to the contrary that all kinds of people were complaining.” People weren’t so sensitive,’” Kliph said in an interview with People. “When you watch clips of that era of Family Feud on YouTube and you see Richard Dawson kissing the ladies, a lot of the comments in the comment section will say things like, ‘Well, it was a different time. The book also revealed that an unnamed female contestant said that a production assistant came into her dressing room and announced, “OK, everybody line up for your herpes tests.”
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