Former daytime discuss present host Maury Povich is gearing up for his subsequent enterprise: at-home paternity check kits.
Povich, who retired from his discuss present final yr, instructed TMZ on Friday that he’s launching a DNA paternity check firm referred to as The Outcomes Are In — a nod to the phrase he’d say on “Maury” earlier than revealing paternity check outcomes.
“I’ve been round paternity testing for greater than 20 years, so I do know precisely what’s occurring and the way we can assist these people who find themselves on the lookout for fathers, fathers who’re on the lookout for kids, fathers who don’t assume they’re the fathers and fathers who assume they’re the fathers,” Povich instructed TMZ in a video interview. “And we will unite households after an extended time frame.”
Povich defined that his enterprise supervisor approached him with the thought following his retirement, including that the kits could be by DNA Diagnostics Heart — the identical firm that ran checks with a “99.9%” accuracy charge on “Maury” for over twenty years.
The checks, he stated, can be despatched to the DDC lab and, inside two or three days, folks can obtain confidential outcomes.
The DDC stated in a weblog put up in 2011 that it had carried out greater than 3,000 checks for the present because it started working with “Maury” in 1998. Povich’s discuss present ended final September, however continues to air in syndication.
“I’ve seen firsthand how DNA testing can change lives and convey households collectively,” Povich stated in an announcement to TMZ. “With ‘The Outcomes Are In,’ we’re making it simpler and extra reasonably priced than ever earlier than for folks to get the solutions they want.”