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I just know that God has something else for me. Judge Judy bailiff on surprise absence: 'She didn't ask me' to be on the new show. Lynette Rice. Save FB Tweet More. Judge Judy. TV Show. Petri Hawkins Byrd. Credit: Everett Collection. Judge Judy aims to remain TV's highest-paid host with new show: 'My compensation has not been a secret' Judge Judy will end in after 25 seasons, with new show Judy Justice in the works Watch Judge Judy set a dog loose in court to determine its true owner.

According to Byrd, after production wrapped in April on the final season of "Judge Judy," he turned his attention to the brain surgery scheduled for his wife Makita Bond-Byrd, who was a longtime producer for the show.

Read More. He said he later asked Sheindlin about her new show and was told he would not be a part of it. But she did inform me that fundamentally, I was priced out as the new bailiff on her new show," Byrd said. I was curious: How would she know? Byrd didn't even sit with Sheindlin during the ceremony, he said.

Instead, while Sheindlin and her executive producer, Randy Douthit, sat about five or six rows back from the stage, he was seated 15 or 20 rows back with the producers. Amy Poehler ultimately presented the award. According to Sheindlin, it was Poehler who had called the Television Academy and asked if she could present the judge with the award.

But according to Byrd, he ran into Poehler a few months later, and she was equally confused by his exclusion at the ceremony. While handing out the award, Poehler commented, "I wish Byrd your bailiff could hand you this award the way he hands you photos in court, not making eye contact with the queen he has sworn to protect. The revelation of this apparent snub follows last month's news that Byrd wasn't asked to join the judge at her new venture, "Judy Justice," which launched on Monday on IMDb TV.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Byrd said he didn't know Sheindlin was producing a new show until she announced it during an appearance last year on "The Ellen Degeneres Show.

And she's said it before that we're friends," Byrd told Insider. It might be a little different from mine.