Jeremy Kyle AXED

TAFKAlawhec · 14-05-2019 11:33AM

The Jeremy Kyle Show - television's equivalent of arse cancer.

You'd be surprised at some of the demographics that watch that show. They're definitely not all self-described "yummy mummies" or deadbeats living of the dole, I remember a decade ago arriving in London to visit some relatives and was greeted at the door by my privately educated cousin who had just finished her A-Levels and was working part time as a waitress at the time before going on her gap year, and walking into the living room what was on but the Jeremy Kyle show on ITV2. Thinking as to why someone like her would watch that crap, she just shrugged and said it was something to pass the time. Said cousin now has a doctorate in political science. Be afraid!

everlast75 · 14-05-2019 11:34AM

Always struck me as odd, that a recurring theme was person A cheating on person B with person C.

These people were having tonnes of sex, but when you looked at them, you wondered - really?

everlast75 · 14-05-2019 11:35AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

What I liked about it were the glimpses at honesty.

It's precisely why I enjoy boards.ie threads about people describing in hilarious and graphic detail how they took their latest shít

I don't mean to sound pretentious (another thing JK Show hasn't suffered from) but such honesty is the epitome of human freedom. If you try to find a common thread, you'll see all of his guests were existentialists. They knew people saw them as trash, but they only cared about their own values, and they pursued lives they sincerely believed were ideal.

Marvellous people, and I mean that sincerely. Their 'kind' has probably always been representative of the most successful human, and always will be.

I'm aware this post sounds like a troll, that's genuinely not intended. I think JK guests have tended to be real, fairly honest, and natural. They've been that most elusive thing -- real.

BattleCorp · 14-05-2019 11:35AM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

The reality is that the show highlights the chronic unemployment problem which Britain has had since Maggie Thatcher closed the mines down.

And the chronic alcohol and drug problem too.

The researchers must look for guests outside of methadone clinics.

kneemos · 14-05-2019 11:37AM

No doubt a lot of them play along,but some seem genuinely disturbed from the little I've seen if it.

Yet man is an odious **** though.

IAMAMORON · 14-05-2019 11:41AM

BattleCorp wrote: »

And the chronic alcohol and drug problem too.

The researchers must look for guests outside of methadone clinics.

I massively agree. But for me their drug problem is directly related to the human obsolescence. They have nothing else to do. Think Merthyr Tydfil, enough said.

Sky King · 14-05-2019 11:44AM

Google image search Jeremy Kyle teeth

razorblunt · 14-05-2019 11:46AM

He's an absolute hypocritical cnut of a man.
Statements now being made that they were allowing folk on who were in care at the time of recoding but allowed out on day leave.

Sad thing is, if it does get axed something else will take its place.

Good news for Homes under the Hammer and Four in A Bed afternoon tv though!
Both could be titles for episodes of his show though it has to be said.

First Up · 14-05-2019 11:46AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote:

Yeah grand, but at the start of the thread shall we just clear one thing up? Epithets against economic status or mental health are childish (literally, sadly), but that doesn't matter since I have about as much shame as your average Jeremy Kyle contestant anyway.

I wasn't talking about mental health.

SusieBlue · 14-05-2019 11:47AM

All that show did was exploit & manipulate people from poor socioeconomic backgrounds with low levels of intelligence.

Its gave them a platform to air their "grievances" under the guise of offering help & support but all it did was make a mockery of people in vulnerable situations.

I used to always watch it when I was hungover during my college days but after awhile it started making me feel uneasy & icky.
A judge in a Court case relating to an incident that happened on the show once said that the format was akin to poking angry bears and then watching them fight for entertainment, and I think that's pretty accurate.

Gimme A Pound · 14-05-2019 11:47AM

Vile as many of the guests are (among them that utter piece of sh1t Mick Philpott) they have been dragged up in deprivation the way their parents were dragged up. What's Jeremy Kyle's excuse for his vileness?

Oasis1974 · 14-05-2019 11:55AM

He was a saint compared to Jerry Springer I mean some of his shows were all out in out fist fights. Plus it was more entertaining than Kyle in a some kind of intelligence way.

RMAOK · 14-05-2019 11:59AM

Sky King wrote: »

Google image search Jeremy Kyle teeth

That's ****ed up :mad:

Irish Guitarist · 14-05-2019 12:01PM

Honey Langcaster-James, a TV psychologist who has worked on ITV shows including Love Island, said: “I think that the format of the Jeremy Kyle Show is one that we could and should be moving away from.”

Well said Honey. If only all television programmes were as highbrow as Love Island.

The behavioural psychologist Jo Hemmings, who has worked for shows including Big Brother, said it was time for ITV to decommission the programme. “It’s an archaic kind of show, it probably was when it was first commissioned, but now it seems very out of step with our attitude with mental health issues.”

Big Brother. Even better.

kowloon · 14-05-2019 12:03PM

Knew aa guy who had family members on that show. I don't think he was very proud of it.

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 14-05-2019 12:08PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Well said Honey. If only all television programmes were as highbrow as Love Island.

Big Brother. Even better.

There's a link between high/low brow and mental health now? Please, do go on.

Gimme A Pound · 14-05-2019 12:11PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

There's a link between high/low brow and mental health now? Please, do go on.

You'd have to ask the people they quoted.

Hector Savage · 14-05-2019 12:12PM

It being AXED though doesn't remove the issues it shows.
I think shows like the Jeremy Kyle show show a deep deep sickness in society, ditto for Jeremy Springer in the US.

The absolute utter dregs of society, subhumans paraded out to entertain the mass of idiots.
I mean, would you laugh at mentally handicapped people ?

sbsquarepants · 14-05-2019 12:18PM

I just can't understand how people watch this shíte. I'm absolutely baffled as to why anyone would go on it.

I really just don't understand the world these days

Mean Laqueefa · 14-05-2019 12:28PM

I looked after a patient in my old job, a right head case, was sectioned for being a peado and rape and all manners of horrible ****, low IQ on the spectrum.

Sat there with him and the whole ward watching Jeremy Kyle and his family appear on it something about debts and incest. They all laugh when he points out thats him mam up there. It was ****ing horrific, i should have known better from reading the psych reports of him and his family, and that **** is up there exploiting it and making money. Glad he is put off air is true, its actually mental that someone hasn't killed themselves after appearing after all the poxy years he has been on

Sandor Clegane · 14-05-2019 12:57PM

To be honest Im surprised something like this didn't happen sooner.

It's obvious to anyone who's ever seen the show that most of the guests are a few slices short of a loaf.

You then proceed to parade these people in front of a live audience and millions of people worldwide and humiliate them, it's disturbing.

The show then claim they have an "after care" team that follows up and looks after the guests which is ironic since the people are more than likely worse off after the show than before they came due to what they have been subjected to.

Jeremy Kyle himself always came across to me as an odious, arrogant and warped individual.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 14-05-2019 01:32PM

Good riddance, hopefully. I'm just glad (and surprised) that this is somehow the first time this has happened.

Dress it up however you want it's a modern day freak show. Wheel out the povs and the plebs so we can laugh at them while a prick in a suit shouts at them. Thin veneer of providing aftercare (have heard of incidents like that aftercare amounting to six counselling sessions, in London, for people living in Newcastle or Manchester), thicker veneer of righteous moral judgement as embodied by aforementioned prick in a suit shouting. All to pretend it's not sick, smug voyeurism at lives of absolute misery.

If his conscience hasn't been dented of years of making a mint doing that to people then I doubt a suicide will get to him. Cnut.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-05-2019 01:36PM

How much of it is real? It's obviously heavily edited.

Surely the participants are coached by producers before filming commences.

Everybody gets paid and I 've even heard stories of guests being encouraged to drink alcohol backstage.

Outlaw Pete · 14-05-2019 01:40PM

The Jerry Springer show is currently being sued over a guest who committed suicide shortly after appearing on the show also.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6981101/Jerry-Springer-sued-family-man-killed-show.html

DrPhilG · 14-05-2019 01:42PM

Don't suppose there's anything they could charge Kyle with?

I mean he (presumably) took a vulnerable adult, destroyed him for entertainment purposes and berated/badgered him for good measure.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-05-2019 01:44PM

Outlaw Pete · 14-05-2019 01:46PM

DrPhilG wrote: »

I mean he (presumably) took a vulnerable adult, destroyed him for entertainment purposes and berated/badgered him for good measure.

You're one to talk! :mad:

freshpopcorn · 14-05-2019 01:49PM

He was always a part and just milked people for entrainment purposes.
Similar to some radio hosts here.
It's almost like they get off on it.

ziedth · 14-05-2019 01:56PM

If I remember right it happened to one of the "Big" day time talk shows in the US in the 90's? (Sally or something maybe) and it cancelled the show...... Hard to pull back from something like that especially these days

14-05-2019 02:02PM

Gabriella Square Carp wrote: »

Good riddance, hopefully. I'm just glad (and surprised) that this is somehow the first time this has happened.

Dress it up however you want it's a modern day freak show. Wheel out the povs and the plebs so we can laugh at them while a prick in a suit shouts at them.

I used to think this way too. My gut reaction was that these people were being exploited.

They ARE being exploited, and I think they understand this.

What's so marvellous about it, is how they just want to be themselves and they couldn't care less what we think about them.

Did you ever hear of a play called Huis Clos? If you haven't, I wouldn't recommend it. It's very boring. It's about Hell.

Three people are dead. They are sent to Hell. They are locked in a hotel room, and the room is very opulant. They were all bad people, but they forgave themselves. The torture is inflicted by each of them experiencing one another's sins. Even when they get a chance to leave, they are so focused on one another's bad behaviour, that they cannot exit Hell (the English title of the play is No Exit)

That's how I see the Jeremy Kyle show. It's a play about the protagonists (guests) and the people who are upset by it. And if I had a choice, I'd far prefer to be one of the protagonists. It's the angry, fascinated viewer who is trapped in someone else's Hell.

Jeremy Kyle AXED

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