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ClandestineAdulation · 2022-03-13T21:09:23+00:00

… to host a talk show, give ‘advice’ and judge people the way he did? The Channel 4 programme about the show is on and it’s just made me think about it all again!

Harmonypuss · 17/03/2022 15:09

@Gonnagetgoing

Sounds like your Kyle's wife or his production team to be defending him like this.

I'm definitely not related to him or the programme and I'm not defending him, just stating what I know from having watched the programme and from having been helped by him and the lady he used to work with on the radio show many years before they took the show to TV.

MrFsAunt · 17/03/2022 17:33

@Federal

The tattoo? WTF! And the way she was smiling and proud of it! A very messed up lady.

If you watch the whole thing you'll see she had a very messed up beginning hence being prime Jezza fodder.

Sausagesarnieplease · 17/03/2022 20:26

Some parents from my child's school went on the show, JK was really in her face about cheating whilst her partner was in prison. However her partner had been in prison for beating her up, this was never mentioned once and if she mentioned it, it was edited out. I felt really sorry for her, but she didn't seem bothered and I do think it was a 15 minutes of fame thing as they both came swanning into school the next like cats who had got the cream. They had never done pick up/drop off together before, but my God he was swaggering the next day, think they were a bit pissed off not one person spoke to them about!

Gonnagetgoing · 18/03/2022 00:44

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2022/03/17/jeremy-kyle-looks-sombre-in-first-sighting-since-bombshell-documentary-16293246/amp/

aghhinlaws · 18/03/2022 07:03

I used to see clips on fb where I was tagged in by friends from uni where they used to mock them. I never liked the show, never watched it on tv. I never understood why people would go on it either to air their dirty laundry often thinking I would rather die than ever be on it until watching the documentary and remembering that I was also a student in a city and staying in a very deprived location and quite often I would witness fights on the streets, drug addicts, people with children from different dads not just 2-3 dads but 5-6, fights and arguments breaking out between neighbours because of unpaid debts for drugs or dads being related to the neighbour and harassing my other neighbour and new partner. I never witnessed this sort of thing living with my parents. It was a shock to my system that this part of modern Britain.

The fiancé having the tattoo of JK's name just shows how vulnerable people are not realising they are being used and just being generally naive and going on the show actually is the biggest most exciting thing they might have ever done or the only thing they might have felt that they had control of or the idea of a free holiday. I can't believe the show went on until 2019. I thought it had already finished by 2012 and there were just old clips circulating. I can't believe this garbage got away for so long. Everyone is responsible for this, from the viewers, ITV bosses, production teams and JK.

thinking123 · 18/03/2022 09:27

@EmeraldShamrock1

JK was known as the maternity leave show, once baby was born the screaming was no longer suitable even for newborns.

So true. So many people I knew "joked" about watching Jeremy Kyle on maternity leave. I honestly thought it would be a bit like Trisha, the odd dna test but lots of other stories. When I went on maternity leave I tried it but was shocked. No way would I have that on round a small baby, all the screaming was so stressful to listen to

Mumoblue · 18/03/2022 14:09

Also I think it’s very telling that it’s “in” to tear apart JK now (not undeservedly) but Love Island is still going after three suicides. The toxicity is in our culture, unfortunately, and TV shows are just profiting off it.

I can definitely say I’ve never watched a single second of Love Island, the premise just sounded so dull.

Touchmybum · 20/03/2022 03:27

OMG all these people shaking their rosary beads and so many of you watched JK!! Most of those who went on the show had watched it before applying. If they weren't 'of sound mind' then yes, this should have been picked up.

Yes, Kyle was an arrogant prick but he was consistent. No-one could know if Stanier was as good as his word.

Lots of families were reunited with long lost family members, or estranged family members. The DNA tests sorted out a lot of uncertainties.

I find it hard to understand why, out of 200 approached, only 4/5 former staffers came out to supply 'evidence' and even then under the guise of anonymity!

They were all in on it. They needn't come back now saying how they were uncomfortable with it because the time for that was while it was still going on!!!

Trainbear · 20/03/2022 07:17

@SD1978

The entire show was the issue. Blaming him solely as the front man, is pathetic. They production team and the channel itself needs to be held accountable. It was poverty porn for the masses and the stupid. I don't for one minute believe that those who went on it didn't know what they were signing up for- the UK's version of Jerry Springer. It was an opportunity for 5 minutes of fame. To claim afterward you didn't know how the show worked....everyone did. The whole production team should be held accountable, not one man alone. He was vile, yes, and should be accountable, yes, but not alone.

Did the guests who, with capacity and forethought get paid for appearing?

I think a large number of people would be willing to be humiliated in order to appear on TV get a few pounds

Quirkyme · 20/03/2022 08:06

He was also a hypocrite, seeing as he had a scandalous love life himself.

Everydaydayisaschoolday · 20/03/2022 08:36

Does anyone remember the Jennifer Saunders series Vivienne Vyle? It was a satirical comedy based on Jeremy Kyle, both the show and his personal life. I just Googled it and it was made in 2007. So even then people were well aware of just how exploitative and corrupt the whole thing was.

MrsPaperclip · 20/03/2022 21:25

Apologies because this is a slight derail but I'm 99% sure I used to listen to JK's late night radio confessions show in London in the early 2000s. Did he move to a different station? I definitely didn't have DAB radio then!

Not the point of the thread but slightly bugging me 😬

bonfireheart · 20/03/2022 21:27

@mrspaperclip I don't know about London but he did host Jezza's confession on radio in Birmingham.

longwayoff · 21/03/2022 10:38

I was idly watching one of those 'watch police arrest your neighbours' programmes and a clip came on in which a bunch of police broke down the door of a drug dealer. All piled in, shouting and bawling etc. Then the girlfriend suddenly piped up "You can't take him now, he's going to be on Jeremy Kyle this morning." Everyone stopped. "What? You on JK? What you done then?" Proud girlfriend "He's a Love Rat". Equally proud Love Rat smirked. Much sniggering amongst officers of the law who then settled down with Mr and Mrs to watch the tv. When their segment was shown, the audience was chanting 'Love Rat' and the Met's finest joined in with it. After which they carted him off. This was about 10 years ago. I could not believe how anyone -JK staff, crims and the Met - all found this a perfectly acceptable piece of tv. And it still makes me raise my eyebrows and say Bloody Hell.

WrongWayApricot · 21/03/2022 10:53

@MrsPaperclip

Apologies because this is a slight derail but I'm 99% sure I used to listen to JK's late night radio confessions show in London in the early 2000s. Did he move to a different station? I definitely didn't have DAB radio then!

Not the point of the thread but slightly bugging me 😬

I also listened in London, I think it was capital because that's what I always had on back then. I thought maybe heart at first but I don't think they would have had him on lol, they're too nice.

WrongWayApricot · 21/03/2022 10:55

@longwayoff

I was idly watching one of those 'watch police arrest your neighbours' programmes and a clip came on in which a bunch of police broke down the door of a drug dealer. All piled in, shouting and bawling etc. Then the girlfriend suddenly piped up "You can't take him now, he's going to be on Jeremy Kyle this morning." Everyone stopped. "What? You on JK? What you done then?" Proud girlfriend "He's a Love Rat". Equally proud Love Rat smirked. Much sniggering amongst officers of the law who then settled down with Mr and Mrs to watch the tv. When their segment was shown, the audience was chanting 'Love Rat' and the Met's finest joined in with it. After which they carted him off. This was about 10 years ago. I could not believe how anyone -JK staff, crims and the Met - all found this a perfectly acceptable piece of tv. And it still makes me raise my eyebrows and say Bloody Hell.

That sounds like a comedy sketch, that's madness

longwayoff · 21/03/2022 11:13

I know, @WrongWayApricot, but sadly, it's true. As above, I'm still quite shocked by it

itssunnytoday · 21/03/2022 11:42

@whynotwhatknot

It wasnt the first show though was it-it was based on jerry springer and noone says anythng about him

i dont thin its fair to blame jk all on his own

Jerry springer is based in America though.. so that's for them to condemn. Also I'm pretty sure a lot of the people on Jerry springer are actors, whereas on Jeremy Kyle they weren't

Usernamerequired · 14/04/2022 22:19

Kyle is just a mouthy short arse on a power trip.
A lot of loss and pain because of the show. Very sad