To be shocked by Jeremy Kyle

I cannot abide the man, I think he is a pompous, self important creep, (just my opinion of course). He did have another program on where he sat in on people having intimate medical examinations, yuk. I refuse to have him on my tv, if he appears the tv goes off, regardless of the program.

Thank you gillybob

Rubbish tv, never watched it, never will.

dragonfly, take care and never mind some people. I think mabon must have some serious stuff going on for her at the moment.

I'm drawn to it on the tv at the gym even though I detest it! Never fails to amaze me how few teeth the participants have in comparison to the number of tattoos.

One of my daughters did an OU essay on Class in the UK last year - she was telling me that (on paper!) there are said to be 7 classes now - Elite, Established Middle Class, Technical Middle Class, New Affluent Workers, Traditional Working Class, Emerging Service Sector and Precariat.

Trying with great difficulty to fit myself into one of those Lisagran

In my previous work, I had a 'client' who went on the JK show. I obviously had an idea of what it was about and didn't want to watch it, but I did (as I thought it might be useful for me to know).
JK broke 2 promises to her (at least as she understood them) - one that she would get her hair and make-up done, and the other that he would not mention a specific illness in her family.
However, sadly, her understanding was so poor, that she said to me ' I wanted to be on the telly, but I didn't realise people [living in my area] would see me'.

Her precarious ability to cope with life deteriorated after that - she felt shamed and knew she had been manipulated.

Thats so sad.

It is an awful programme. Apparently though he does help a lot of people with rehab And therapy and those people need all the help they can get

I was born and bred in London and have its quite natural for me to say barth and Glaasgow. Hubby the is from there. I love to hear the variety of accents in this country. Live in Yorkshire now and barely understand them at times . Love it.

Ah but a Scottish “Barth” isn’t posh at all anniegold

(Picturing my late Scots MiL saying it)

I refuse to watch as find it an insult to my intelligence and I'm not that intelligent before I'm accused of being from an upper class society. .born in bermondsey and proud of it

Lisagran
That exact theory can be found online.

minxie
Anyone watching that rubbish would themselves need therapy...IMO, of course.

Quite right..just asked DHL to pronounce barth. He doesn't stretch the "a" as much as I do and he is Glasgow (won't let me say "wegan".

Yes, that’s right GabriellaG - I think she got much of her research info online. I myself just looked it up online as I couldn’t remember the classes she’d talked about - it came to mind as folks on here were talking about working class.

My sister and I sat there with it on once and just went (at least our lives aren't that crap!)

My DH was born to a Scottish mother and a (broad) Yorkshire father. He has lived on Tyneside for almost 50 years and still can’t speak proper Geordie “like warra dey”

Despite over 20 years of lessons he can’t get the “oo” quite right and replaces Book, school etc for Buck and Scule

I ve sometimes seen bits and bobs I find the lack of teeth very disconcerting when folk on benefits get free dental treatmentment Why oh why not get your teeth sorted
My other big worry is that darned lie detector how many marriages or families have been ruined and the thing isn’t fool proof at all

My sister and I sat there with it on once and just went (at least our lives aren't that crap!)

I suppose that’s one way of looking at it DIL17 some of the people on JK probably make my life look almost normal.

Bluebell, it can be very difficult to find an NHS dentist.

Watching JK prog is no different from Victorian riff raff going to see the mentally disturbed at the insane asylums and laughing at them....tif you tune in ....even if onlyto condemn this crap....then you are adding to the problem. Tv will continue to produce this trash as long as people are willing to watch it! STOP!

I watched a couple of episodes years ago but I was pretty sickened by the exploitation of people from the most unfortunate section of society. JK looked like he was wholly enjoying berating and making fun of them. The audience seemed to be revelling in the guests misfortune and misery. I found the whole thing very cruel. It was very reminiscent of people going to Bedlam for a cheap days entertainment. Really nasty programme.

I usually switch to ITV waiting for This Morning at 10 so catch the end of the program. I used to hate JK but he/the program seem to do some good work - reuniting families, sending people to rehab, getting professional help where it's needed and so on. I'm unable to decide how he decides when to have a go & when to be supportive but, let's face it, if you need a lie detector to tell you someone's been unfaithful, you're already in trouble.
He is a bit harsh at times, but I like him.