# Judge Judy: Who the heck is that redhead with the beehive hairdo?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 23, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807 "2014-04-23T21:36:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/1 "2014-04-23T21:36:47Z")
I’ve noticed something weird on JJ lately.
If you look in the audience, there’s a lady, she’s about 20ish, and she has red hair that she always wears in a beeehive-ish style.
Who the heck is this girl? She usually sits in the front row and I see her on about every third show.
I wonder what the heck her deal is and why is she so obsessed with JJ?
Strange.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/2 "2014-04-23T21:43:56Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> I wonder what the heck her deal is and why is she so obsessed with JJ?
I don’t know, but I find it interesting that you think \*she’s \*the one obsessed with Judge Judy.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/3 "2014-04-23T21:49:46Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> I don’t know, but I find it interesting that you think \*she’s \*the one obsessed with Judge Judy.
Okay, thanks for the thread shit **Bob**.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/4 "2014-04-23T21:50:33Z")
Unless you’re also **Soundwave75** , who commented in [this Topix thread](http://www.topix.com/forum/tv/judge-judy/TO1TPGRFAI38EBSB7/p8) on (I assume) the same woman back in 2011, it appears you aren’t alone in your fascination.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/5 "2014-04-23T21:52:06Z")
I’ve no idea who she is or what she looks like but an image search for Judge Judy audience [turned up this page](https://eplacencia.wordpress.com/tag/judge-judy/) which suggests they may re-use certain “audience” members with some regularity.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/6 "2014-04-23T22:00:02Z")
Reading from **Vinyl Turnip** ’s link, it’s looks like they may get paid to sit in the audience. I guess that would explain a lot.
Still, it seems weird that they would have to pay people to fill up seats. With JJ’s popularity, it seems like people would be lined up around the block to see her show.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/7 "2014-04-23T22:00:15Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Who the heck is this girl?
That’s just Becky.
That’s what I call her anyway. I don’t know what other people call her or what she calls herself.
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/8 "2014-04-23T22:05:25Z")
I wonder how much that gig pays? Surely she isn’t getting paid extra scale money if she’s a “ringer” audience member. Perhaps she’s otherwise employed on the show?
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/9 "2014-04-23T22:10:03Z")
Don’t they film multiple episodes a day? So she might have been there just for one day, and you just keep noticing her.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/10 "2014-04-23T22:11:18Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Reading from **Vinyl Turnip** ’s link, it’s looks like they may get paid to sit in the audience. I guess that would explain a lot.
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> Still, it seems weird that they would have to pay people to fill up seats. With JJ’s popularity, it seems like people would be lined up around the block to see her show.
The problem is that multiple shows are taped during a single “audience session”, and if you use the general public, like we do at _Wheel of Fortune_ and _Jeopardy_ when on remote shoots (i.e., “not in our studio in Los Angeles”), you eventually get people who want to leave.
For _WoF_ we tape 3-4 shows in a single session. If half of the first two rows leave after the 2nd show, or midway thru the 2nd show, audience wranglers will try to get people to move into whatever seats are in the most camera shots to maintain the impression that there is a full audience. BUT people notice when the family of fat white people is suddenly replaced in another shot by a couple of grandmothers and a young, skinny black couple (for instance). So a lot of shows will pay a small sum for background extras ($50-100/day, usually) so that they can better avoid the problem of finicky people staying where they don’t want to really be in order for the show producers to get the shots they need. If you pay people to sit you have a much better chance of those people staying put for 2-4 hours at a time.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/11 "2014-04-23T22:12:55Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Still, it seems weird that they would have to pay people to fill up seats. With JJ’s popularity, it seems like people would be lined up around the block to see her show.
Maybe a local LA person can shed more light, but the last time I was a tourist in LA (2010) there were a plethora of people in touristy locations trying to give out passes to be audience members to game shows, sit-coms, infomercials, etc. I think the market is saturated.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/12 "2014-04-24T01:44:34Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Okay, thanks for the thread shit **Bob**.
How is that a thread shit?
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/13 "2014-04-24T12:51:05Z")
> [@PlainJain](#):
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> How is that a thread shit?
It gave voice to the majorities’ thoughts, thus disallowing us our private time. Or something.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/14 "2014-04-24T13:44:28Z")
Do you know about Miss Miller?:
> **[Lillian Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Miller)**
>
> Lillian Dorothy Miller (May 26, 1897 – April 1, 1990) better known as Miss Miller, was a regular audience member of various American television variety shows from the 1950s to the 1980s.
> Miller was born in Boston and was the youngest of four children in her family. Later, she had a daytime job as a government typist, but retired in 1958 due to eye trouble. She began her audience career with radio programs in 1940, in New York. In 1948 she was living in Hollywood, California. She first went on s...
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/15 "2014-04-24T13:45:05Z")
Would you really consider that hairdo to be a beehive? I always think of Yeoman Rand or something like [this.](https://www.google.com/search?q=beehive+hair&client=firefox-a&hs=qx0&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&imgil=tsdxGanqz8eg8M%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcTR2IUM5VVrkKjc4juNpyDJDYAFr_ntoGXCVzm6h2EzO3bauozx%253B400%253B544%253BC80Pm5aAxqVVcM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.myhautedame.com%25252Ftutorial%25252Ffh-7-beehive-hair-tutorial%25252F&source=iu&usg=__wi0JvW515bKH-q8hPN_8rof2zAI%3D&sa=X&ei=1RRZU-mBPJSoyATss4LQCg&ved=0CC8Q9QEwAA#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=mgwrpv6aa_MlwM%253A%3B6zEqMvc4UN5n5M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmedia.tumblr.com%252Ftumblr_ltcnr5JZTa1qk4sew.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fhammysammy.tumblr.com%252Fpost%252F11686487304%252Fthe-bouffant-vs-the-bee-hive%3B200%3B343)
StG
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/16 "2014-04-24T16:55:11Z")
Maybe they fill the odd seat with a production assistant or crew member. You might not need a wardrobe or hair person once the cameras start shooting, but you might want that person on hand in case they’re needed.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/17 "2014-04-24T16:59:45Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> Do you know about Miss Miller?:
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> [Lillian Miller - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Miller)
Notice that a lot of the contributions the Miss Miller’s page were from the late Walloon.
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### Author:  [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/18 "2014-04-25T01:45:28Z")
When I lived in LA I supplemented my income by being a “professional audience member.” It’s easy work, inside, air conditioned and you get a day’s entertainment. Plus, you’re paid cash at the end of the day. I was on Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown and a whole slew of Greg Behrendt (the “He’s Just Not That Into You” guy) shows.
Our day started around 8. We were told what to wear and where to show up. Typically you worked 3 shows, had a lunch break, then went back to finish the day. Between tapings we were moved around so the more obsessive viewers wouldn’t notice the same audience members in the same seats for a whole week’s worth of shows. Judge Joe was fun and chatty. He would take questions from us and joke around. Judge Judy would disappear back to her dressing room between tapings.
Fun fact: Looking at the Judge Joe set you’ll see two doorways, one on either side of the bench. One goes to the Judge Judy set, the other goes to Divorce Court. The Magic of TV!
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/19 "2014-04-25T18:04:14Z")
NotherYinzer, that’s awesome. I think I’ve discovered my second career.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-judy-who-the-heck-is-that-redhead-with-the-beehive-hairdo/686807/20 "2014-04-25T18:25:26Z")
> [@control-z](#):
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> NotherYinzer, that’s awesome. I think I’ve discovered my second career.
That is cool. I wonder how hard is it to get that gig?
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