A sobering caveat of the power of television and romance in combination came when a popular dating variant of the talk show, inviting secret admirers to meet on the stage, backfired on "The Jenny Jones Show". The admirer was a homosexual friend of a heterosexual man who was so outraged after the taping that he later murdered the admirer. The secret admirer variant of the talk show has remained popular, it continued be used on "Oprah", but with less emotionally loaded surprises, and much more careful checking of the guests' backgrounds and attitudes; occasional episodes of "Maury" combine this format, though not always in a direct manner, with reveals of high school classmates who were considered to be unattractive as teenagers reuniting with their former school friends or tormentors as adults, after changing their image to become more physically attractive.