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John O’Hurley has revealed why he walked away from Family Feud, admitting the show had develop into “kind of a penis joke.”

The actor hosted the long-running recreation show from 2006 until 2010, before Steve Harvey’s Hollywood profession took over and he landed the internet hosting function.

John loved his time on the show, but a transfer from Los Angeles to Florida made the job more and more tough to handle alongside his household life and Broadway profession.

“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,” John explained to People.

John said he already had to set apart 14 weekends each yr for filming. Traveling across the nation would have meant spending even more time away from home.

“My family didn’t want to do it.”

“So I said, ‘This is the time, probably, when you should pass it on to somebody else. I’ve had my fun with it, and that’s it, time to move on now,'” he explained.

The filming schedule was not the only motive John determined to depart.

He also admitted he had develop into sad with the more and more suggestive questions getting used on the show.

“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.

John said viewers had began writing to him because they no longer felt snug watching the once family-friendly show with their youngsters.

John claimed it did not still have the “family orientation” that he felt it once had and instead all the things appeared to develop into a “inappropriate double entendre.” He added that he believed it was also “getting a little too demonstrative.”

Although John might reject questions, he said he often had to push back against materials he believed crossed the road.

He remembered feeling that he had to “stand by [his] values or find somebody else to do it.”