Richard Allen Kirkham was born on May 16,1958 and is an American film producer, writer, cinematographer and journalist who is best known for his documentary TV Junkie and appearance in the Netflix documentary Tiger King.
14 Facts About Rick Kirkham
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Rick Kirkham became interested in making films at a young age, and began recording home videos of himself.
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Rick Kirkham was hired by Inside Edition as an anchor, where he interviewed celebrities like James Brown and Chuck Norris.
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Rick Kirkham did a series of stunts during his tenure including being shot out of a cannon, set on fire, and wrestling a nine-foot alligator.
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Rick Kirkham appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007 to talk about his addiction, and clips of his video diary were shown.
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On Oprah, Rick Kirkham said he was a functional addict, and that he would smoke crack at night instead of sleeping, remaining high for about six hours, and report for work at Inside Edition two hours later.
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Rick Kirkham began to speak publicly about his drug use to young adults.
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In 2014, Rick Kirkham received numerous requests to become the producer for a reality show featuring Joe Exotic, the operator of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park.
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Rick Kirkham was later interviewed by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin for their Netflix documentary Tiger King.
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Rick Kirkham is featured prominently throughout the documentary, recounting the rise and fall of "Joe Exotic TV", a podcast-like production that Rick Kirkham hoped to develop into a TV series, before his footage was mysteriously destroyed.
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Rick Kirkham hugged her and told her everything would be fine.
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Rick Kirkham told her to leave the horse and the trailer and they'd put it out to pasture and give it a good place to live.
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Rick Kirkham appeared in the June 2020 documentary Surviving Joe Exotic.
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Rick Kirkham divorced Kirkham in 2001 following his drug abuse, and later filed a lawsuit against the producers of TV Junkie.