@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
I think the worst thing is that so many of the people who appear on it clearly have mental health issues, a floor-level sense of self-esteem or are of extremely low intelligence. I'm not saying this as a dig in any way - I don't think the vast majority have any understanding of the ramifications of what they're doing.
Jeremy, on the other hand, DOES know exactly what he's doing. His team actively seek out very vulnerable people under the pretence of helping them to find a resolution, letting them have their say in front of sympathetic, caring people - or at least to gain some closure -
Only to exploit them by exposing them to a braying angry crowd in the audience and millions more similar people at home who want their long-term damaged lives and perpetual failures to serve as twenty minutes of light entertainment for a bit of a laugh and a jeer.
So very true all of this....... ^
I remember someone telling me that they knew someone who went on the JK show (as guests,) and they - and the people they were having the argument with - were in the same hotel (travelodge salford quays I think.)
Before the show was filmed, the producers (and the assistants of the producers,) had the stories from both sides, and started playing them off against one another. They were saying 'he said this about you' and 'she said this about you' (when they hadn't,) to try and shit-stir and cause big rows between them. (Just as they were going to film the show, so there would be massive arguments and even more bad feeling!)
Like several others on here, I got sick to death of the shouting on the Jeremy Kyle Show, and when my husband puts it on, I put my laptop on and my headphones in.
The other day he put an episode on that he had recorded earlier in the day, and the shouting and screaming was SO LOUD and intense that even my headphones didn't dampen the noise. I couldn't enjoy my programme I was watching on netflix (Russian doll) so I had to go into another room.