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To hope that this is the end of Jeremy Kyle?

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Tillygetsit · 13/05/2019 15:10

I've just read that today's episode of Jeremy Kyle was pulled because a "guest" that was due to appear has died. No details are known as yet. My view is obviously sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased person but also that this may be the wakeup call that this type of bear baiting voyeurism has had its day.

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marmiters · 13/05/2019 18:51

Why is he even allowed to use lie detectors? He's done so many of them that there is an extremely high probability that some are inaccurate.

Vile show. Hope this is the end of it. Twitter is scary right now with a huge number of people talking about their experiences of him!

Becca19962014 · 13/05/2019 18:56

Love island would be mentioned in relation to it because it's exactly the same so called "quality" after care team. There's a website about everything they supposedly do to care for people who participate.

isadoradancing123 · 13/05/2019 18:57

Its a dreadful show, but no one is forced to participate in it

CarolsBiggestFan · 13/05/2019 19:01

no one is forced to participate in it

Arguably a lot of participants don’t have the capacity to consent, or they don’t understand exactly what they’re participating in and the potential consequences of appearance on the show.

marmiters · 13/05/2019 19:06

If a 14 year old child took part for £200 would you say 'they knew exactly what they were taking part in?' No? What about a vulnerable adult who has the same IQ as a 14 year old child?

They are preyed upon and exploited regardless of whether they apply or not!

marmiters · 13/05/2019 19:12

I hope members of the audience are brave enough to come forwards

SallyOMalley · 13/05/2019 19:16

She was not capable of understanding the consequences of appearing on the show and suffered a great deal of neighbourhood nuisance as a result. I feel like she was exploited for laughs.

@floatinginspace - one of my colleagues worked (briefly) as a runner on this programme. She would agree with everything you say here, and felt so uncomfortable with it, she could not continue working on the show. She hates everything about it.

RuskBaby · 13/05/2019 19:18

Jeremy Kyle himself is a smug git and should be taken off tv. I’m pretty sure he gives not one iota other than to preen himself from what I have read about the show.

loveliesbleeding1 · 13/05/2019 19:20

marmiters absolutely agree 100%.
This joke of a show,with jeremys fake concern should have been taken off air years ago,or better still never been aired to begin with.

MissEliza · 13/05/2019 19:20

JK hasn't just got away with it for a long time, he's made a fortune out of it. Sickening.

HelenaDove · 13/05/2019 19:22

Proof that they STILL dont get it.

twitter.com/ChrisMaloney77/status/1127885126090854400

LakieLady · 13/05/2019 19:27

I hope it stays off-screen for good. And that all those awful "Benefit Street" series that exploit the desperate, dysfunctional and vulnerable follow suit.

They're all voyeurism of the worst sort imo.

labazsisgoingmad · 13/05/2019 19:36

he was a dj wasnt he? so am i right in thinking jk has not got any qualifications in counselling mental health nursing or any other basic exams?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/05/2019 19:47

YANBU. JK is a nasty jumped up bully. I'd love to see him act the way he does when his henchmen aren't behind him, and His show is frankly shit.

mabelsgarden · 13/05/2019 19:47

@Tillygetsit

100% with you OP. Awful show, vile man. This show should have been axed at LEAST 5 years ago. Apparently it's 'a popular daytime show' but it's on in the morning on a mainstream terrestrial channel. There is not much else to watch at that time. (Except Jeremy Vine, which has topics on that are not interesting to some people, and 'guests' that some people don't like.)

Put The Jeremy Kyle show on at 11.30pm on a TV channel like 5-star, and see if the show is 'popular' then.

Kyle is a talentless oik who parades vulnerable guests around like circus animals, and he is just vile. He shouts at them and bullies them, and it's time he got his 'just rewards.'

I never want to see his face again. And I hope they never ever show a Jeremy Kyle show again, ever.

staydazzling · 13/05/2019 19:48

I'm assuming it was suicide Sad

mabelsgarden · 13/05/2019 19:48

So I have heard @staydazzling Sad

RomanyQueen1 · 13/05/2019 19:51

They did right not to show an episode today and of course they aren't showing that particular programme. I'm not a fan at all, but have better things to be doing than watching that shite.
it's very popular with some people though, they find this type of thing appealing. No accounting for taste, but that's what it is, taste.
Just because I don't watch I wouldn't want to prevent others, so I hope it stays, for all the sadoes who have nothing better to do.

Leftielefterson · 13/05/2019 19:53

Let’s hope so. It’s tripe.

HelenaDove · 13/05/2019 19:58

ITV have turned into the lowest common denominator . Was at my parents on Saturday night and we were watching a film Voyage of the Damned on Talking Pics TV (its about the St Louis) ive seen it before on the same channel My 24 year old niece and my dad found it as interesting as i did. So DM was outvoted. The film finished at 9.45pm. So DM put it on ITV (her default channel) and WTF were Bradley Walsh and co. doing FFS.

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bradley-walshs-new-show-slammed-15307769

I think there what with JK and LW as well there is a major problem at ITV

HelenaDove · 13/05/2019 19:59

*that what with.........

FishCanFly · 13/05/2019 20:05

If a 14 year old child took part for £200 would you say 'they knew exactly what they were taking part in?' No? What about a vulnerable adult who has the same IQ as a 14 year old child?

Unless the adult has a specific disability - this is a very patronizing viewpoint

marmiters · 13/05/2019 20:08

@FishCanFly it's not though because it's true. A lot of people on that show clearly have very low IQs, similar to that of a child. They are vulnerable and I would put money on the fact that many people sat on that stage DO have a disability.

LimeKiwi · 13/05/2019 20:08

Just because I don't watch I wouldn't want to prevent others, so I hope it stays,

I'd usually agree, but not on this occasion - laughing at other people's misfortunes and playing with people's emotions for so called entertainment really isn't on and shouldn't be allowed.

Jux · 13/05/2019 20:11

I once had a carer whose family had been riven by who knows what - I couldn't really follow her explanations - anyway, she was nC with her parents. Her mother wanted them both to go on JK and get it sorted out. The dad sounded like an abusive bastard, but my poor carer was a really delicate little thing, very vulnerable and quite possibly SEN, she wouldn't have stood a chance. She asked me whether I thought she should do it, and I told her absolutely NO! I don't think she did it, but she did love the show.

I think what she saw was other people's problems getting sorted out, where I just saw other people opening themselves up to public scrutiny and bullying.

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