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To think JK should be raked over the coals for this ( triggering D & V content)

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StanSmithsChin · 13/11/2015 14:09

This letter of complaint was brought to my attention today.

As I rule I do not watch Jeremy Kyle as I find the man vile however his treatment of this women was disgusting and I think his show should be axed.
The author urges anyone else who feel as strongly as she does to complain to ITV, I will be sending my e-mail today.

to the show. However it is not all of it. The full show can be found on ITV player if you subscribe it is the 12\11\15 show.
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Queenbean · 13/11/2015 18:28

I've reported your post Stan to MNHQ so that they'll see the thread - it would be great if they can be involved somehow

I have just looked on Twitter and the blog post upthread is on Twitter - I've retweeted and copied in itv and Ofcom

Onedayinthesun · 13/11/2015 18:32

My God. He is being fucking paid handsomely to spout that shit. Disgraceful.

I have not seen him on TV for years and years and have been left tearful and shaking after that short clip. Poor woman, the 70's & early 80's were a different world when it comes to DV - she said she had no one in the world to help her, beyond sad.

Why the fuck did the daughter ring JK instead of Davina long lost fam?

mollyonthemove · 13/11/2015 18:34

I have tweeted, facebooked and ofcommed!

StanSmithsChin · 13/11/2015 18:46

I'm going to be really unpopular here but I don't feel any sympathy for the daughter who was adopted. She admitted she had no memory of her life with her birth mother and had a good life with her adoptive family. Why did she feel the need to drag her birth mother on national to to explain herself?

Not unpopular at all. I too feel sorry for the daughter, I suspect the author of the letter is correct when she states that the daughter was not after the angry answers JK was and simply wanted to ask her bio mum why.

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Anastasie · 13/11/2015 18:46

This bears repeating. I hope you don't mind:

MrsMolesworth Fri 13-Nov-15 16:29:46

I used to work in a centre for vulnerable women with known psychiatric problems. JK researchers were constantly ringing up to ask if any of our clients would like to make a bit of money and come on the show. We had a sign in the office that said 'If JK ring, tell them to f**k off.' They actively sought vulnerable people to jeer at and goad, knowing that the fifty quid they'd bung them was enough of an incentive if they were desperately hard up.

StanSmithsChin · 13/11/2015 18:48

Not at all it shows him for the sick twisted bully he is.

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Chrysanthemum5 · 13/11/2015 18:56

That clip is awful. My background is like that family - terrible abuse and mum had lots of children because she wasn't 'allowed' to say no plus once she had children she was trapped and easier to control.

I've complained.

HelenaDove · 13/11/2015 19:02

I find his hatred of women very very frightening.

StanSmithsChin · 13/11/2015 19:08

Thank you to those who have tweeted, FBooked and complained.

This bully should not be allowed to continue to spout his venom this way just because he gets good ratings. His show has a duty of care to support the vulnerable people who watch and appear on his show. He is a disgrace.

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violetsarentblue · 13/11/2015 19:20

What a PIG!
Watching that, I felt so sorry for the mother. She must have been in a desperate situation at the time to have made the choices she did.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 13/11/2015 19:21

He gets good ratings because people enjoy his shows Angry Sad I expect more people enjoyed the episode in question, than complained about it. Bread and circuses.

imwithspud · 13/11/2015 19:24

I used to actually sit and watch his show pretty much daily in my late teens, God knows why because I can't even have it on in the background now. I can't stand the man, he get the most vulnerable, and to an extent the most stupid members of society, puts them on his show for the sole purpose of ridiculing and entertaining the masses, it's just awful the way he speaks to people and when he does the shows with disabled children he just comes across like a slime ball. I don't think I can bear to watch that clip after reading the comments here. The show needs to be banned.

0pheliaBalls · 13/11/2015 19:26

My mother was abused in every way possible by my father throughout the 1970s and 80s. She tried to get away, to get help, but help was extremely limited then. She lived with him for 25 years before she finally got away. She died, completely broken, a couple of years later.

That poor lady on JK could have been my mum, if circumstances had been slightly different. The sadness and anger I felt watching that was overwhelming. Too bloody right I'm complaining.

violetsarentblue · 13/11/2015 19:29

If people stopped going to watch this drivel, he wouldn't have a show any more.
He would no longer be able to exploit vulnerable people.
And yet lately, it seems to be a reverse snobbery 'thing' to have ''been in a Jeremy Kyle audience''
Nobody should go to watch this shit.

Aeroflotgirl · 13/11/2015 19:40

My goodness, isent he a nasty piece of work, I never watch him, utter trash.

StanSmithsChin · 13/11/2015 19:41

0pheliaBalls I am so sorry your mother went through that. Flowers

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HelenaDove · 13/11/2015 19:51

Ophelia Me too. Thanks

WhatTimeIsItCuckoo · 13/11/2015 19:56

This clip is vile. And people are applauding him when he tells the other daughter who challenges him to shut up and he'll speak to her when he's ready! This just goes to further prove how his toxic attitude is influencing others. And the post from Mrs Molesworth Shock! I can't believe ITV are paying this man. Disgraceful Angry.

AprilParadox · 13/11/2015 20:01

Jux "He could have made an award winning show, which brought society a little further into the light." I couldn't agree more.

HelenaDove · 13/11/2015 20:03

ITV have their priorities wrong on a few things.

Oliversmumsarmy · 13/11/2015 20:08

seen it for about 10 minutes a few weeks ago.

Can i ask if the lie detector is for real because the bit i saw I believed the guy regardless that the lie detector said otherwise

HelenaDove · 13/11/2015 20:12

"Bennett revealed that they’d not been released on DVD because ITV was refusing to pay him anything for doing so. It seems it’s not just online journals that expect to get and monetise content for free. - See more at: www.samiraahmed.co.uk/alan-bennett-the-art-of-the-monologue/#sthash.UhoxUcwI.dpuf"

I would love to see this series of plays but because ITV wont pay AB his rightful due that wont happen.

But they are happy to pay JK pay off Peter Andre and commision all sorts of reality tv as well as damaging crap like these so called chat shows.

Their priorities are fucked!

Anastasie · 13/11/2015 20:13

I feel too angry to write a coherent complaint, I am trying to calm down so I can, thank you to all those who have done so already.

I'm so afraid that I will say the wrong thing and it won't be enough and he'll continue to get away with this.

I feel like if I saw him right now I would find it very hard not to let rip.

FrancesHaHa · 13/11/2015 20:17

I've just complained. I've met a woman before who appeared on JK with her abusive partner, and she told me that the appearance exacerbated the abuse. She was young and vulnerable, and I think genuinely thought they would get some help. They were promised ongoing counselling together (in itself dangerous) but it never materialised.

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