To be disgusted by the guests on Jeremy Kyle?

[MsBrown]

I think i've watched this show less than ten times. This morning was one of those times.

There was a woman who had three potential fathers to her child, and had attacked one of the men for being a bad dad - turns out he wasn't even the dad.

There was a feckless father boasting JK pays for his drugs.

Guests laugh along when JK mocks them - making them look daft.

Guests don't seem to take any pride in their personal appearance.

They all shout and scream like children, despite them having children themselves.

I hate JK, but I hate the attitudes and lifestyles of the majority of his guests even more.

Only watched it this morning because I couldn't find the remote.

As much as people say that people like this are in the minority, JK has been running for over five years, five days a week, with at least two new guests per show.

Yes straight to rehab......all five days of it. What the hell is 5 days going to do to alleviate the states some of those people are in?

It's almost become a way of life for the guests - we need a DNA test, right lets go on JK, it's free! And saddest of all are the ones who say "I know I need help, that's why I am here." Is JK really the only option? the only help available for people with substance abuse issues?

We look down on it and think we're too good for it but some of those it's all there is.

Well, yes BGT and the X factor (during the audition rounds) are equally exploitative of people with MH issues.

Sometimes when it comes to addiction you need to e cruel to be kind most addicts are in denial

"Sometimes when it comes to addiction you need to e cruel to be kind most addicts are in denial"

having some pointless arsehole screaming in your face in fromt of a stuidio audience and a TV audience sure as shit is cruel - I wonder how much of a help it is.

I Don't wonder. It's sweet FA Help

Obviously rehab is not a cruel to be kind situation but unless the person with the addiction admits to having a problem they won't go will they? Sometimes u need to scream at ppl to make them listen!

They don't provide decent aftercare on JK so talking about jolting someone out of denial is a moot point really.

The worst is the way he shouts at the young girls who don't know who the fathers of their children are. There was a thread a while back where people spoke about times in their lives where if they'd got pregnant they wouldn't know who the father was. There was a surprisingly large amount of women on here who could say this applied to them at one time or another.

It's the same old story, because females can get pregnant they are WORSE than the men that impregnate them, they are to blame and yet these girls are the ones who stay around to raise the kids. Girls are sluts or "dirty" for not knowing and blokes are poor tearful young men who had the wool pulled over their eyes by those feckless females.

Makes me so .

I never judge girls for not knowing. It's easily done and it's not a problem Jezzer or any other man will ever physically have to worry about.

Oh and I am more disgusted by YOU and your sweeping judgement of these people OP than I am by any of the guests on that programme.

I think the simple answers is if u dnt like it dnt watch it, try looking for the remote?

I don't mind jezza. The stuff he does to help kids and communities outweighs the sometimes shitty bits of his show

My thoughts exactly!

YABU to be disgusted by the folk on Jeremy Kyle. The emotion you should feel is pity. Imagine what kind of life leads you to behave as his 'guests' do

Who are u talking to akaemafrost?

MsBrown I've now done the calculations - based on the show alone that means at least 2600 feckless people in society!! Someone tell the left!

Nah. I don't buy that at all.

I watched one the other day (don't judge me, I'm in bed ill) and one of the guests had been on the show previously. When Jezzer started berated him for not turning his life around since he'd last been on, the bloke started going mad at Jez saying that the show had never given him ANY aftercare after the show and that the promise of care was bollocks. JK went batshit and started screaming for an aftercare manager to get out here RIGHT NOW to disprove this man. Needless to say, no aftercare manager ever showed up.

I've heard tales of the JK show that make my teeth itch, things like telling the guests they'll be collected for the show at say 8am but then the crew turn up for them at 7am and rush them out of the hotel room without giving them time to run a brush through their hair. You know when you see a guest waiting to come on and they're sitting backstage with a member of the team? That member of the team is goading the guest, saying "ugh she called you a syphilis slag" etc etc, so it really IS like human bear-baiting. It is an ENTERTAINMENT show and Jezze and Genius Graham care as much about helping these folk as I care about cleaning the mildew off my bathroom taps.

The only redeeming feature of the show is Jezzer himself. He IS hilarious, the way he works himself up into a spittle-covered RAGE over fuck all.

Again the simple Answer is to not watch it if u dnt like it!

Sirsugar that is eerie!

Heres an old article on the aftercare and abuse of people with MH problems That's one form the Lefty Guardian

And again Here's one from the Daily Mail - hardly left wing!

I feel sorry for them. The men that go on there's life ambition seems to be to sleep with as many woman as possible and the women's to have as many children as possible. I don't think anyone "chooses" their life to be like this and I don't think they have any idea JUST how bad they come across, it's quite sad and they are exploited for sure. As much as it might be entertaining I can imagine for a lot of the younger guests especially, years later they'll look back on it and feel so embarassed and ashamed!

The man is a twat. It would be a service to society if one of the mentally unstable people on the show beat the crap out of him.

The whole premise of the show is revolting. I agree with shirl and usual. The problem is not with the guest but the way they are manipulated by very clever television people.

But, for sheer exploitation of a terrible nature it doesn't compare to Maury (mind you Maury is not as vile and abusive as JK).

Those people have terrible enough lives without someone shouting at them on telly and making things 100 times worse.

I also am very at the concept of a show presented by a reformed gambling addict being sponsored by foxy bingo.

I suppose I can answer a bit about the rehab side of it. My best friend's DH is a drugs councellor and he gets a fair few guests from the Jezza show sent to him for a talking to but it is the minimum amount, they don't pay for a full course of rehab/councelling. They go for the first few which are paid for by JK but then are expected to keep it up themselves.

So it's kind of like putting a bag over someone's head, driving them to an unfamiliar town, getting them out of the car, spinning them around a hundred times, removing the bag and saying "right, now find the nearest Greggs".