Has Anyone Ever Been on Jeremy Kyle or Know Anyone Who Has?

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I’m just wondering about the bit at the end where he says they continue to work with families. AIBU to think this can’t be true? There are too many of them!

There was an episode of one of those true life police programmes, following them round with a camera and they raided a house, arrested the guy that was there and his partner piped up "o dont take him away yet, he's going to be on Jeremy Kyle in a minute". Coppers pause, there were a few of them, "What? What you done then?" Partner, laughing, "He's a Love Rat". "O go on then, stick the telly on". On comes Mr Rat to a studio chorus of boos, accompanied at home.by her Majesty's finest chanting and pointing 'Love Rat, Love Rat' at their crim. Everyone laughing including Mr and Mrs L Rat. It was an eye opener for me and made me suspect a free night in a hotel at Kyle's expense was quite a treat for some.

I had a cousin who went on Kilroy (o those that remember that far back!) now THAT was a family scandal (berating her dad for persuading her to have an abortion at 15). Unfortunately we only found out after the fact! So I didn’t get to see it. I’m hoping for re-runs on you tube one day...!

An old old friend of mine was on it years ago, long after we had lost contact, about her abusive partner, jealously, wanted a lie detector etc. a few years later he brutally murdered her and is now serving a life sentence. How much help she received I don’t know but it clearly wasn’t enough.

O catching what a horrible thing to have happened. I'm very dubious about the amount of help offered by self serving, money pocketing, shouty Mr Kyle who seems to have plenty of problems of his own that could benefit from help. I hope there's a very warm place in hell reserved for someone who exploits damaged people solely to make large amounts of cash out of them under cover of faux concern. He's a despicable creature.

I knew someone years ago who knew the (then) psychologist who linked in with people afterwards. Apparently it was a very cursory debriefing, no follow up, most people regretted it and felt afterwards they had been played and felt humiliated. As other posters have said the 'perks' were a night in a travel lodge, travel and takeaway. This was before people became as desperate to be on TV as they are now (can not believe how long this trash has been on TV). I work with vulnerable people, some of whom probably feel this is the only way to get their voice heard. It is totally explotative and whilst I am usually a 'live and let live' type, Jezza Kyle and his attitude as the self appointed judge of morality, gives me the rage.

I know someone whose adult daughter went on it.
First he heard about it was when all his work colleagues started making comments & I'm not sure he will ever get over the embarrassment.
In his line of work, it was deeply humiliating.
She did it to 'be on telly'.

My friend’s brother was on it but she was so ashamed, she wouldn’t tell me anything about it other than he’d been confirmed to appear

CathingBabies That is awful. I genuinely do not watch it anymore. I did years ago when I only had 1DC. I got into the habit of watching it after a night shift when DD went to school.

I can't stand the shouty people, but it has helped addicts and people grieving too, Graham was nice.

One of our care leavers went on it, after being suckered in with some cash and a night in a city hotel, despite us trying to talk him out of it. He was made to look a fool and now wishes he hadn't.

These kind of shows regularly trawl the homeless shelters and similar for people. And no, bollocks there is effective aftercare.

It's just human bear baiting using some of the most vulnerable people in society. He's a despicable man.

My friend went on with her husband to find his long lost sister who was adopted at birth. The show found her, put them in contact, and the sister has moved to our city and they have a brilliant relationship. He'd spent 12 years failing to find her after his parents died and he found proof of her existence.

@BarryTheKestrel
Lovely to see it does some good at least.

Wow thanks for all the responses! I was in the audience a few years ago and it was a great episode, mostly. A Dad in a dress whose son wouldn’t accept him followed by a genuinely shocking twist when DNA proved he wasn’t the Dad. A girl who failed a theft lie detector who lamped the camerman before admitting her guilt. The last story though was squeezed in over about ten minutes and was heartbreaking. A man with bulimia crying out for help and to be honest it was all so hopeless. He was offered aftercare and I always wondered what happened to him.

Seen Judge Rinder 3 or 4 times now. Very funny!

@CatchingBabies How tragic.

Come to think of it - one of the guests I mentioned on the show I knew is Autistic (came from a family were everyone was Autistic too, lost mum quite young). It was a paternity themed one, and he and the ex (likely also special needs) were getting really slated on Jeremy Kyle. I felt that this lad was too vulnerable to be on such a show and more rigorous checks should have been done. Of course he wasn't acting like a "normal" man to such a emotive situation with booing and stress added, he shouldn't have been near the place without a hell of a lot of support in place!!!! Made me view other guests with more sympathy after that, though admittedly I am not a JK fan at all.

Oh yes. Becca the local bike has been on a few times. Last appearance been about 2/3 weeks ago.

I know a few people who have been on there including a women from my year at school for a DNA test (her bf was a troglodyte and accused her of cheating). I have no idea about the aftercare though.
I do know of one though where it was completely twisted to put the mother in a good light, JK was full of praise for her but made the several fathers look awful - when in fact she's well known for being incredibly neglectful and had 5 kids by 21

Oh actually someone I know someone who was on the latest series getting a paternity test - he's a well known druggie thug who has convictions for harassing young girls, none of this was mentioned on the show and his ex was getting completely slated for not letting him near the kid. Anybody who knows him knows he is not fit to be a parent. I also found out after the show had aired from my ex that he had once tried to give our then 3 yr old vodka on the bus

Not Jeremy Kyle but I was an audience member on Ricki Lake in the late 90's. I was living in New York at the time and it was something to do!

My former SIL was a guest, can't say I was surprised.

Also saw a girl I went to school with. She had fallen into hard drive and prostitution. I was shocked and concerned to see her and mentioned it to my former Head of Year. All the cast are had to say was "How much does she charge?"

*drugs, not drive, FFS.

*bastard, not cast are. Eff off, autocorrect.

I stopped watching it after he kept taunting a woman who had had a threesome and deeply regretted it. She'd clearly been coerced into it and he kept trying to get the details to humiliate the poor woman and get a laugh.
It's shameful.

I met some people at a mutual friend's house many years ago. I really did not like the people and tried to steer the mutual friend away from them. Unfortunately nothing would persuade her to stay clear. Years went by and I saw one of these people on Jeremy Kyle. They looked liked an idiot. There was even more to the story than was shown on tv. They were and still are awful people and quite a number of their DCs have been taken into care.
It does not sit right with me to make a tv show and money out of people who are unfortunate. The real story was worse than you could imagine.