JUDGE JUDY STAR SACKED!
He’s been her right-hand man for 25 years, but Petri Hawkins Byrd, aka Byrd the bailiff, has revealed Judge Judy Sheindlin snubbed him for her new show, Judy Justice.
“My assumption is if you were going on to do something else, that you were at least going to ask me if I wanted to have the opportunity to audition for the role,” says Byrd. “She did inform me that fundamentally, I was priced out... My salary would have been too much.”
Judy, who has hired former bodyguard Kevin Rasco as her new bailiff, has defended her actions. “Byrd is terrific and we had a great 25-year run,” the 78-year-old said in a statement.