Should the Jeremy Kyle show be axed?

Why do they go in it? 15 minutes of fame I imagine. That’s how they live, the ones who yell and scream and apparently sleep around and steal from their grandmothers.

I actually know a very young couple who went on the show, both of them damaged by their upbringing. They said they went for a day out with a hotel room with minibar the night before, the only time they had ever stayed in a hotel, and for the fun of being on TV.

The story (contrived) was that the boyfriend had doubts that their baby, her second child, was his. I was worried for her in case her messed up life was going to be further messed up and searched YouTube for the programme. To my surprise, given JK’s notoriety, he didn’t set them up for a big confrontation, got the boyfriend to admit to a skunk habit and suggested it was making him paranoid, read out the DNA results, wished them well and sent them on their way.

I guess Kyle on his programmes exploited what was already there and presented with a couple of reasonable young people found no bad behaviour to encourage.

I don’t watch the programme, though I saw some of it in it’s early days and I am glad it has been taken off.

My young couple broke up not long after.

Am happy it is disappearing as I didn't like the confrontational format at all. However, I'm not sure about the reasoning for its demise and where all the blame seems to be directed.

What I've always loathed about this sort of thing is that it normalises some pretty dire behaviour by putting it into mainstream media. Screaming and shouting at each other will never solve anything and living your life without out much of a moral compass is also not to be encouraged.
For the same reason I loathe all those pay day loan adds that imply not being able to get to the end of the month without borrowing at 1000% is also perfectly normal...its not!
Its not poverty in the real sense of the word in many of these cases - its just not organising your life that's the problem. I was a single Mum once - OH just walked out and left me with mortgage to pay, no job and a newborn. Heck I lived of porridge for at least 6 months. Plan your life a bit, make provisions, have a few rules about being a decent person. This darn programme just gave folks the impression you could be nasty and it was OK....its not.

I watched it once, recently. A friend was on there and her segment was lovely. It was to do with her adoption and birth family. It made me cry as it was so touching, but I watched the earlier segments and they were appalling. I’m glad it’s been axed.

I remember seeing this programme a few times when I was still working, some of the people I had to visit would be glued to it while I was trying to talk to them over the sound of it as they might miss something if they switched it off! It just seemed a very cruel type of programme with JK bullying in a provocative manner, to get the desired reaction. How it ever lasted this long is unbelievable.

It has been. Thank goodness, awful programme television at its worst.

DD was telling me that Love Island has had 2 suspected suicides. So will that go too?

Although this isn't going to be a popular post, I think the show also does good, I've seen the show bring people together, get people into rehab. Yes most of it is people shouting at each other, but they are the people that ring the show and agree to go on it. After 14 years on air they know what the shows like, and some just want 15mins of fame. I like JK,

I have seen this a few times. Not sure why. Jeremy Kyle was told off a few years ago for being rude to contestants and he is now worse than he was. When they show the results of the lie-detector test a line appears on the screen that says the results are not 100% accurate. The poor man involved may have been in the small category of those for whom it was not accurate. Jeremy Kyle should never appear on TV again.

I have watched the programme in the past and was horrified for the participants. I did not watch it for very long, as I felt uneasy about the format, the way the participants were manipulated and the hostile audience.

Yes, the show should be axed and I really can't understand why broadcasting standards have allowed this sort of 'entertainment' to be aired in the first place.

I hope we will see the end of this genre, where people's misfortunes are to be broadcast for all to see and stop the vulgar profits made from misery.

well I used to watch it every now and again, but not for a long time. I found the man intimidating, a bully , exploitative of somewhat vulnerable people - all in the name of entertainment. The so called lie detector is notoriously unreliable, hence not admissable in a court of law, yet on this programme 0if a person fails this test , then they are a 100% liar according to Jeremy Kyle.... It was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
Remember Jenny Jones talk show from the 90's? she outted a man on her show and he later killed himself...

I can't believe that a couple of posters are suggesting "I'm a Celebrity........" should be axed, grouping it together with the Jeremy Kyle show.
Have they ever seen it? It's nothing like the Jeremy Kyle show. I really enjoy it because it's good fun and lovely to see all the celebrities bonding during their time in the jungle. Maybe a case of 'here's a band wagon, let's jump on it' I suspect!

I dislike all the so called "reality" programmes, however, the Jeremy Kyle show was, as a magistrate said, just cruel bear baiting

Absolutely, it's time to get this awful programme off the tv, I can't stand the man at all, he is so full of himself I can't bear to watch anything with him in, even trailers for his shows.

IMO the really bad thing about this show is that the results of lie-detector tests are taken as 100% reliable (even though there is a small note at the bottom of the screen to the effect that it's not), and certainly JK treats the results like that on the show, damning categorically anyone who fails the test (I believe this is what happened to this poor man)

I'd never seen this programme until they started showing clips following this tragic event.
It seems to me to be the very worst of American styled programmes. I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch it let alone actually go on to it.
I am amazed it was even allowed to be on British TV.
Quite horrible & just seems to be a way to humiliate vulnerable & rather sad people.
What are we coming to if this is considered entertainment- we'll have bear baiting on TV next!!

Should never have aired in the first place. Don't understand how anyone can either want to be on it or watch it.....

Yes it should be axed. I've never watched a full programme, just seen bits occasionally. Jeremy Kyle has made a living out of exploiting vulnerable people. A lot of the people on there are mentally ill and the audience and those who watch it........,well the less said about them the better. Bearing baiting it is.

JK appears to thrive on the vulnerable and recall another of his TV programmes where he was allowed, by both patients and the medical profession, access by TV cameras to film many personal health issues. The personal questions he asked of patients were not, in my opinion, for the public,
This latest incident says to me that JK should not be let loose with these kind of programmes.
What qualifications does he possess, where the mind and body is concerned, but comes more into what appears to be his own morbid curiosity.

Ive seen odd bits of the show - my adult SN child sometimes puts it on and us told to turn it off!! (Luckily I don't think they understand it).

Dreadful programme. But I guess he will be back with something equally as vile....

Yes it should go - but it will be replaced by something equally as hideous, so normalised has this type of entertainment become and so desensitised have we (the societal we) become to this sort of Victorian freak show TV.

It's all about the money, viewing figures and media exposure - kindness is not what we measure success by sadly.

I don’t think the show should necessarily have been cancelled although the decision has now been made. I wasn’t a fan, but I thought the aftercare was pretty good, and watched sometimes when drug addicts were given free rehab places. I thought it was good that people who had nowhere else to turn were helped. I know there was a lot of entertainment value that could have been seen as exploitative but even BGT has an element of that. I wonder how many people were actually helped by the show? It’s a shame that they are throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Pat1949.
His living from despair of the rejected and the deceived.

Thank goodness it’s been axed, bear baiting! Let’s hope Eastenders gets axed too, hate that programme, everyone shouting at each other, yuk?

Have seen bits if it while telly was on its vile and all that's wrong with today's society sitting watching people ridiculed and humiliated just for entertainment disgusting! Glad it's gone!