Jeremy Kyle axed permanently

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Hallelujah! Good riddance to bad rubbish!!

Crumbs well he's not gonna be a shrinking violet!

Personally, I think he did his best with the "formula" and tried to talk about responsibility.

Meanwhile (according to a few posters on this thread), the production team are searching out deprived areas schoolgates and mental health/addicts to find new contestants.

So many of the contestants looked so deprived and depraved I did wonder where they "found them", and now I know.

Love Island is such a load of bx though. Amazed people reeled in by that one. I suppose it looks harmless - but its got a ruthless narcissism that is really quite creepy in my opinion.

Kilroy-Silk was UKIP briefly but fell out with the party leadership and founded his own anti EU party. Quite clearly that venture into politics didn’t achieve very much. (He was previously a Labour MP, I believe.)

I’ve been in the audience for Jeremy Kyle and he is a horrible and arrogant person in real life. I’m glad it’s axed.

I've heard he isn't a nice person. One of my friends is an estate agent who was showing him a property and apparently he tried it on with her (whilst with the nanny...) ewww

I think theyve axed JK because they thought it would save Love Island, which is their current cash cow.

What is sad though is I am sure many production crew, runners etc will just have their crappy contracts terminated so I hope they manage to find something else

In any case, they've said they will continue to work with Kyle, just not continuing the JK show. So i'm sure we will be seeing him again on our screens soon, repackaged, filleted and spruced.

this excerpt about the jeremy kyle show in Jon ronsons book the psychopath test is v. disturbing. clearly exploited mental health issues. the powers that be must have been aware.

Kilroy Silk was pulled for being a racist and refusing to apologise ... ideal UKIP fodder ...

JK was pulled for financial reasons ....

Good I'm glad. I hated all the, let's laugh at poor misfortunate people. It's disgusting. He's disgusting too, the way he shouts and talks down to people. Glad it's gone.

Horrendous show...very happy to see the back of it.

I watched when it was in its infancy and I feel was less extreme. A lot more talking and less shouting/talking down on.

America will probably take him up again and he can be the new Jerry.

Unfortunately it's human nature to 'freak show' others who we see as lesser, dumber, poorer, more extreme than us. It's like a car crash we don't like it but we can't look away.

I agree Love Island/Bachelor etc are also the same. X Factor etc can sometimes be really good for a buddy artist or whatnot. But even then it's fairly biased.

FWIW I don't think Jeremy was to blame for this man's death but I do think that his attitude to guests means he is not a help and will increase any issues that a guest has. It's unfair to have that as entertainment really.

Kilroy Silk was pulled for being a racist and refusing to apologise ... ideal UKIP fodder ...

I think it was an article about Arabs in the Sunday Express, wasn't it? Not condoning or justifying his views in any way at all, but IIRC, it was more arrogant/dismissive/colonial-type racism (still disgraceful) rather than intrinsically hateful, FWIW. He never seemed to be a particularly nice man, but his programme worked well.

Maybe they could bring it back but with a different host, don't know who, though. Nobody too nice - that wouldn't work. Can you imagine if they gave it to Biggins to do? They'd have such hard-hitting, controversial topics as 'Are unicorns lovely?' It would end with group hugs and confetti and everybody agreeing that everybody there is simply fabulous, regardless of their opinions

Richard Madeley would be good - all the same 'embarrassing uncle' as Kilroy but without the unpalatable views Otherwise, Anne Diamond would do a sterling job, as she does when she covers for Jeremy Vine. No-nonsense but charming with it.

Apparently, even UKIP weren't too fond of Kilroy in the end:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas_(political_party)

Sorry, I missed that post before - Lizzie48 had already mentioned this.

I have read most, but not all, of the thread, so someone’s probably already said this but I would bet a million pounds that the show was already earmarked for cancellation very soon and they’ve just jumped on this opportunity to do it. I know a lot of people who work in TV and there’s always some kind of internal politics and machinations behind these kind of decisions. There’s no way they would just cancel it completely, out of the blue, just because of that poor man

The argument to cancel Love Island is flawed.

This Suicide was from directly being on the JK show (although not 100% there was obviously issues to be on there in the first place)

The people from Love island and I have first hand experience of people committing suicide inc best friends brother, just to say I gave slight experience. We’re years later and Mikes most recent programme was Ex on the beach so not sure why full bland going on Live Island. I do not know much about the other lass Sophie only that there were issues but again she had been on other shows.

All ‘reality’ shows need a shake up and contestants supported but at the same time I wouldn’t expect a job/competition I took part in two years ago to be calling me up and check on me.

Oh wow lots of auto correct issues 🙈 hopefully get the drift!

A local ‘character’ in my town went on it a few years ago and it was horrific. This man is a total alcoholic but at this point was actually getting his life back together - he’d got a real job after years of selling the Big Issue, a flat and was trying to sober up. He was on the show under a headline like ‘Did you cheat on me with the town tramp?’ (local character being the town tramp.

I don’t know what they got him to wear, I’d seen him pretty much everyday for the last few years as he was on my walk to work. He was always fairly well dressed considering he was homeless. They’d put him in a ridiculously small T-shirt and trousers that kept falling down, everyone laughed at him when he came out. He didn’t even have anything to do with this couple, just seen them in the pub a few times.

He left town about a week after it was filmed and never came back. I often wonder what happened to him. It genuinely made me sick how people could happily humiliate vulnerable people for a living.

Can anyone remember the controversy over an Eastenders episode back in the 90’s (I think).

It featured Angie drinking vodka followed by an overdose. She was reached in time to be saved.

I remember the controversy around this episode giving vulnerable people the notion that they could survive this type of behaviour.

I remember the Trisha show thing and the similar programme with Kilroy Silk. Totally different format - more like a group discussion with 50-100 invited members of the public to discuss a topical issue. The presenters facilitated the debate, they didn't give their own opinion and didn't criticise the participants.

When Loose Women started it was similar, Kaye Adams (who is a decent, serious news journalist) was the lead presenter and they'd discuss the news and topical issues from a female perspective. Over the years it's got so much more lowbrow and downmarket with panellists who aren't really known for their grasp on current affairs.

Central Weekend Live - now there was a programme! Remember watching this in bed at my nan's house on her black and white portable, drinking tea and eating biscuits, and promising not to tell my mum I had been allowed to watch it along with Tales of the Unexpected and Tales from the Crypt!

I actually know someone (well, a colleagues sister) whose boyfriend did a lie detector test saying he hadn't cheated on her with a certain person, the test came back he was telling the truth. He truely made her life miserable for months after that. About 4 months later, she got a message from one of the girls friends (the girl he had been cleared of cheating with) with evidence he had been sleeping with the girl for 2 months earlier in the year. Yet he passed the test, then was abusive to his partner afterwards!
My colleagues sister contacted the show after she got the evidence (basically photos of himself he had sent the girl and texts gloating he had 'got away with it') but needless to say, they weren't interested.
Anyway, my point is, the lie detector test results aren't worth the paper they are written on! Jeremy Kyle gloating in their faces when they are found to be lying makes me feel sick, esp when he must now the lie detector doesn't even bloody work!
I am so glad it has been taken off air, I hope itv get rid of him altogether.

The bit I particularly used to hate was if they passed one question of the lie detector but failed another. JK would always say triumphantly ‘so, now you’re going to say the test is wrong. How does that explain the first question then eh?eh?’ Of course it can be wrong for one question and right for another, it’s a completely worthless test you spoon!

Disclaimer - it was my mil’s favourite program when she went into a retirement home and I was subjected to hours of it.

I can't say that I watch the JK show much due to the fact I'm usually at work, but I must say that I find it so disgusting that it can be sexually offensive and physically abusive, lots of shouting,just vile in content. However all these people who are now on their high horses need to take a good look at their selves and wonder why it has been on tv for so long?, I know loads of people who watch because it makes them feel good about their own lives, ie. if they think things are bad look at some of the 'mingers' with no teeth, greasy hair, grey trackies etc , no doubt there will be lots of people coming out of the woodwork, potentially trying to get compensation, or to be famous because JK has ruined their lives, made them look stupid etc There is a plethora of reality tv programmes dressed up as 'helpful and informative, such as 'My 600lb life, 'My Life on Benefits'' 'Big Brother', 'Hoarders'it's all bullshit, they are all aimed at taking the piss out of people, providing fodder for everyone to have a good discussion about at work , all happy that no matter how bad you think your daily grind is, at least you aren't as bad as this lot, come on Mumsnetters, we've all done it, mock outrage is very much the theme here, banning these type of programme is long overdue