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tary, and jokes. “I admire his tenacity to find the win when nobody else sees it,” says Cedric. Harvey took that winning


formula with him to Family Feud in 2010, greatly expanding his reach beyond his core Afri- can-American fan base, and to his daytime talk show, which has succeeded where bigger names like Katie Couric and Anderson Cooper have stumbled. “I’m a champion for women,” Harvey says of his appeal, “and I say the truth no matter what it is, with a big splash of humor.” His truth-telling ranges far


and wide. Food segments on the show? “If you cook something and I don’t like it, I spit it out in a napkin,” he says. (“I appreci- ated his honesty,” insists “Hun- gry Girl” Lisa Lillien, who had that happen with her low-cal version of German chocolate cake, a Harvey favorite, and has returned to the show since with better results. “He set me up, though; as good as my German chocolate cake is, it can’t go up against his mother’s.”) Men’s bad behavior toward women? “All men can and will change,” Harvey proclaims, “but there’s only one woman we’re going to change for.” He gets serious when asked about the realities of raising African-American boys in a world where parents are left mourning dead adoles- cents like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown: “I sit my three sons down and say, ‘Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don’t walk away, don’t smart-mouth; get your hands up and get down on


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