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?

It was much worse under the last Labour gov and before benefits reform

Why do you think this is? (genuine question)

Because they used to just have a lot of people on none of whom worked and none of whom appeared to have anything to do except shag, procreate, get wasted and argue. As a consequence they would spend all their time getting over involved in each other's lives and basically arguing about nothing in a very 'he said she said, you did this you did that' sort of a way.

Nowadays they don't seem to be able to source so many of those guests (because that type of lifestyle is rapidly diminishing) so it's more based on actual issues. So thefts, paternity, addiction etc.

Incidentally the people who go on the show exchange money for a public root around their private lives.

I don't see it as that different from the sort of shit Posh and Becks or Brad and Angelina pull to promote their public images and products (again ultimately money) by flogging/exposing their personal lives either. People just look at it differently because it's lower class people and therefore a husband who's a pisshead/philanderer and public mudslinging is seen as sordid instead of glamourous/full of pathos/scandalous like it is when P&B or B&A do it.

I can't do with all the shouting. Plus if you've seen a few, they're all the same.

@fridgepants Underclass is a sociological term, it's not a term which has just been made up to sneer at people, so it's fine to use in my opinion.

Being born into a poor family or doing poorly within the education system aren't reasons for living on benefits. This is insulting towards people who have genuine reasons for not working such as disabilities.

Where I live there are plenty of jobs in warehousing which require very minimal qualifications. Obviously lots of people take these jobs up and want to work, but there are still those who choose not to even try to get a job even though there are jobs out there for them.

I don't know how he gets away with it. He's a jumped-up snidey little goblin with a sordid private life of his own but he looks down on others because he's on a power trip.

I sometimes wonder if they are just jobbing actors playing a part because it is so staged and wild

I feel sorry for the children who are the subject of DNA tests. Their parentage is crap entertainment for the masses. It's a terrible invasion of their privacy and hope they sue the arse off Jeremy Kyle when they are older.

Erm poor and not very educated people ?
They do exist you know !!

We have had a lot of government investment (thanks labour !) into schools and council housing in my area

That plus the immigration effect means we don't have many people that would want or need to go on Jeromy Kyle

It's also an urban money issue - but it's really helped

This a shame it can't happen everywhere

LOL just read the thread

Trust me labour investments have made a huge massive difference here

Or else everyone moved

A good friend of mine was on there (with a Very Jeremy Kyle problem) before I met her. She’s definitely real.

Working class = people who work hard, support themselves and contribute to society.

Underclass = people who could work but choose not to and are parasites on society.

'Vulnerable people' = patronising, condescending, middle class do-gooder's terminology for underclass.

Love when Adrian Mole's family go on Jeremy Kyle to establish who Rosie's father is... Adrian's so embarrassed, tries his hardest to avoid watching it but ends up in a TV shop with it being shown on every screen...

can't remember which book it's in, either of the last two

It's the Adrian mile prostate diaries

So bittersweet when he could ever get through to the GP

RIP sue T

Never

Mole

I used to work with some very vulnerable people on a community therapeutic project. I met quite a few people who had been on the JK show, and they all regretted it :(

My psychotic ex said he wante do to go on Jeremy Kyle once. His teen DD had put him up to it. He wasn't getting to see her much (because he's a arsehole).

I suspected she wanted him to do it, to humiliate him really.

He wanted to do it in a grand-gesture-fucking-fathers-for-justice-look-how-much-you-mean-to-me type thing - when in reality he couldn't be bothered to send her mum money or be sober enough to meet her when arranged.

I realised with horror he would probably go on it and talk about me. Even thinking about the humilation that could have happened makes my physically cringe. Thankfully I managed to talk him out of it.

And leave him soon after.

They go to deprived council estates and lure helpless people in for others to laugh at while a cunt in a blue suit tears them apart for profit

I hate the way he keeps saying "Look at me". And even when someone has held their hands up & is agreeing with him, he's still goading them. Not that I watch.........wink

I love it. Like audio visual prozac for me.