TV & Video - Nov. 2, 1989

Hahn’s Muddy Encounter: Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary whose sexual encounter with television evangelist Jim Bakker started the downfall of his PTL empire, will be hosting a pay-TV special Nov. 10 that features heavy-metal rock and female mud wrestling. “It’s not ‘Masterpiece Theater.’ It’s a little crazy,” Hahn says of the show, “Thunder and Mud.” “I’ve got mud in front of me and heavy metal behind me. The girls all look great--I felt like their grandmother.” Asked if her rock and mud show is denigrating to women, Hahn, 30, says no. “It’s simply fun television. We’re not claiming to be brain surgeons.”