Just watched both episodes today, I did used to watch this show at one point when I was younger and happened to be home. At some point though it started feeling a bit wrong and Jeremy started to really annoy me with the way he treated guests, so I stopped. Then I found out that lie detectors that were seen as law on the JK show are basically bollocks, so that put me off even more. How many innocent people have gone on that show, taken a ‘lie detector’ as a last resort to prove their innocence only for it to falsely come back that they were lying and had their lives ruined? It’s really disgusting and that’s before you even get to the documentary.
I’m not bothered if having watched and been entertained by this show at one point makes me a hypocrite for what I’m about to say. We live we learn. The documentary wasn’t really a surprise, the show preyed on the vulnerable, less intelligent and disadvantaged in society. They were lied to and prodded like bears at the circus so they would ‘perform’ for the cameras for people in the audience and at home to point and laugh at them. Modern day freak show and I’m glad it’s now cancelled. Jeremy Kyle is a vile man who was happy to be the face and the name of the show and have his ego stroked by it for years. I don’t doubt he knew exactly what was going on and encouraged it. It was said on the documentary that anyone who spoke up against the things that were being done would get the sack. That doesn’t mean that he’s the only one accountable but it’s easy to see why he gets the brunt of it. He was the one on camera shouting and degrading people, acting all big bollocks because he knew security would never let him get hit. He and 2 others came up with the idea for the show if I remember rightly from the documentary. The ‘aftercare team’ gave the impression that the show was out to legitimately help people but that clearly wasn’t the case.
I do think the backstage staff should be held accountable as well, they harassed, lied to and manipulated people into going on that show. I hope they all feel horrific for their contribution to this
tit show of a programme. I’d imagine they probably feel a lot more remorse than Jeremy Kyle himself does. Jeremy doesn’t seem like he gives a flying rats arse about anyone but himself.
The woman who branded herself with the JK signature, I felt sad for her. She is exactly the kind of person the JK show preyed on. Vulnerable, of a lower intelligence, working class, who’s world is very small in that meeting someone as ‘famous’ as JK was seen as a major highlight for her. I don’t say this to be nasty about her, she seemed like a perfectly nice woman. But it’s really not normal to get Jeremy Kyle’s signature tattooed on your body especially after going on his show and losing your partner as a result.
Yes people “should have known what they were signing up for” when going on the show but the show was very persistent in recruiting people to go on, there’s an example of a poster going through it in this thread. They’d be economical with the truth and make it sound like a good idea. If you are desperate and vulnerable it’s easier to be talked into doing these kind of things so I don’t think it’s as black and white as “people should have known”. The staff on the jk show used many underhanded tactics to get people on there.
What made me laugh about the Jeremy Kyle show was how every now and then he’d do a special episode about kids with cancer or something. Of course he’d be nice as pie. I’m not really sure what the point of these episodes were. He was also a lot nicer on the odd occasion they had a middle class guest on as opposed to a regular working class guest who more often than not he’d end up yelling at and trying to provoke.
Sorry for the long post, didn’t mean to waffle on so much
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