To wonder where on earth the Jeremy Kyle show find these people?

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(made an epic fail just now and posted this on landlords discriminating against Vietmanse people so here with a shiny thread all of its own!!)

Day off - just finished everything and decided to watch some rare afternoon TV... The Jeremy Kyle show is has a group of people arguing about theirsex lives with the title across the screen

"If you cheated on a trampoline we're over for good"

What on earth... where on earth did they find them and how on earth do they get them to do this on national TV?

And free drinks - perhaps they give them enough that they drop all their inhibitions and agree to go on the show (in my case I think that they'd need to give me enough that they carry me on comatose - at least my drinking problems would give them a new avenue of discussion)

The kind of problems some of his guests have are the reality for a lot of people - and it makes others uncomfortable.

Lots of people grow up in poverty, with little/no education, poor job prospects and not knowing who their father is. Violence, drugs, infidelity and not working is their “norm”.

Jeremy Kyle exploits them to some extent, but until the government pulls its finger out and genuinely helps them - they don’t have anywhere else to go.

I knew a researcher who worked on JK. She told me (in strictest confidence) that the people working behind the scenes will go into Mrs A and say "did you know Mr B said you are a desperate slipper who couldn't keep your hands off him"
Then they'd return to Mr. B and say Mrs. A says you was all over her like a rash when her husband was out of the house, even though Mrs. A had said no such thing, just to get the participants all riled up before they walk on stage.

I can't bare to watch it, it's too much like a previous comment said "laughing at the lunatics "

a desperate slipper

I used to like it 15+ years ago, I think the show has changed - as well as JK. Can't stand it on in the same room now. Put it on sometimes to give it a go and within seconds I am pressing the off button. It is trashy now, Jk acts like an idiot. I used to love the reuniting shows or children ones. But all the bloody arguing is just ridiculous and yes they are using vulnerable people.

I know some people live very chaotic lives with lots of inter related problems. Still not an excuse to laugh at people.

You can actually see when the guests are sitting backstage waiting to be called out, the show staff whispering in tenor ear winding them up.

The worst episode for me was one where the children had brought their mother to the show because they'd been taken into care when they were younger iirc. The father had been an abusive alcoholic and the mother was clearly a victim of every kind of abuse from him, JK just kept shouting at her, right up in her face, wouldn't let her finish a sentence, she was like little mouse, clearly terrified.

And as for Graham the twatty therapist sidekick, any truly professional therapist with any integrity wouldn't go near the programme.

Not only do you get travel, meals, a hotel stay and lots of attention (on-set and later at home) etc., but you get to take your mum/ sister/ random friend who can corroborate your side of the story as well. Plus a free DNA test if your child's parentage is not 100% certain.

I'm told that the production team collects the participants from the hotel far earlier than the scheduled time so they've no time to get dressed up ready to go on-stage.

This kind of show is vile.

but I LOVE 'desperate slipper' as a typo.

Would it be a middle class Boden one or a cheap football themed one?

Yes there is a reason Take a Break is so popular.

I live amongst them. Their most famous guest, Karen King unfortunately is from here, in Liverpool, she used to come into the Off Licence that I worked in.

There is a lot that I hate. He has a large portion of people with LDs on. He dismisses Emotional Abuse. He allows the men to verbally abuse their ex partners, because they dare to have a sex life. It's taken him too long to accept that Women had to give up their children because of Poverty. MH issues didn't get support etc. The list could go on and on.

But a lot of the guest aren't Vulnerable. It's patronising to suggest so, because they don't fit into a model of behaviour/lifestyle/work. It's a lovely idea that if given the opportunity, a lot of the residents of sink estates would turn into decent people/parents, but they wouldn't. They are a factor of society, who have autonomy and don't have to make the same choices as you would, like it or not.

Jeremy Kyle is nothing more than a nasty verbal closed minded arse hole.
Who picks on the vulnerable and the poor, because. He's got his henchmen standing by. If someone stood up to him. He'd shit his pants.
The fuckin wank stain

"I'm told that the production team collects the participants from the hotel far earlier than the scheduled time so they've no time to get dressed up ready to go on-stage."

Go to your local family court, travel round on buses in dodgy places. You'll see people who look like them. They have dressed up, they've put clothes on, rather than pyjamas.

You must be walking around your towns blinkered.

Free night in a hotel, travel to and from, £200 and a FREE BAR!! Carpet fitter with travel lodge told me this. Producer winds them up and watches them go!!! It's disgusting behaviour from one human to another!!

pinkingshears desperate slipper is a scraggly old football slipper with bobbled fabric, just longing for a foot to fill her up...any foot....seriously, just any foot will do.

Their research team has been door knocking on a couple of the local council estates near me, looking for people to appear on the show.

There was an episode on in the canteen once with a woman on it who had been attacked several times by her husband. She was so bloody terrified she couldn't look at him. Instead of advising her to leave him he offered him help so they could move on with their lives together.
My mouth dropped open. Any advice to a person in an abusive situation is to leave. Not stay until he goes too far and kills you.

If someone stood up to him, he'd shit his pants Absolutely.
I know two people who have met him socially and they both said he's a wanker. Also one of them had met him at a BBQ where his dcs were present and they said his son was really naughty yet he let him away with murder. That's a bit ironic given how he judges the parenting of people on the show.
I haven't watched it for years. I can't switch it over fast enough. It just makes me sad to see people screaming at each other.

Also hate how JK just shouts in peoples faces 'BE A MAN".
"ARE YOU A MAN", "BE A REAL MAN". "ARE YOU A MAN OR A BOY?"

With everything we know around masculinity, shouting that as a clear solution to all problems, is a very odd tactic.

He had a radio show on a Saturday morning several years ago, on Heart I think. He was actually quite likeable on the radio.

They are not working class
I am working class so are many of my friends. We work. We have an education. I have a profession
Most of those on JK are the non working underclass. Nothing to do with the working class.
That is not a judgement. It's a poor reflection of our society where children have little chance of success if they are born into generations of non working families and born in the wrong area

On a trampoline! Am about to take the kids to a trampoline park. That'll liven up the evening.