Jeremy Kyle

[Jordyboy9]

Can someone say for certain that this is how some people spend their lives?I Dont think that it is genuine it cant be, people with any sense of dignity dont carry on like this,mothers sleeping with daughters boy friend girls who dont know the father of their baby it goes on from bad to worse,it is not a case of dont watch it then, its why do people act like this,if this is good television i will stick to my ipod

[Answerprancer]

I think its a latter day Victorian freak show, Kyle is raking it in at the expense of the less fortunate as some sort of self professed 'counselor'.
It's the ultimate scraping of the barrel afaic, total gutter press tv.
That said - I do occasionally watch 'highlights' on Youtube ;-)

[andy-hughes]

It is how some people spend their lives - sadly.

People who have got their lives together have a large element of choice in the way their lives go - they make decisions, they think about things, and they organise things to make them happy and secure.

But there is, for want of a better expression, an 'underclass' who do none of these things. These are people who exercise little control over themselves, things merely 'happen' to them, and the lack the intelligence and empathy to question if things are right or wrong, they just 'are'.

Situations present themselves, sex, drugs, fights, and so on, and they simply react that what is in front of them at the time.

This behaviour extends to an inability to think about what is going on, which is why they struggle with the simple questions that JK asks them.

So when JK says, why did you sleep with your daughter's boyfriend, and the woman involved says 'I don't know ...' that is exactly the correct answer, she really doesn't know!

It's sad, and it panders to the lowest common denominator in viewing audiences, the willingness to point and laugh and gasp and ultimately feel superior to the 'guests' because it is not them behaving in this way.

It's really best not encouraged, so probably wisest just not to watch it.

[B00]

" Dont think that it is genuine it cant be"

some of it is at least, as I know of two couples that have been on,and one of them at least really is like that as a family.

[Peter Pedant]

Vanessa Phelps' version foundered on this very rock
they hired actors ....

s/o commented that there was a cue board on what they should say inadvertently included in a screen shot.....

English trailer trash - but there again some peope want their 15 m fame on tee vee

[Peter Pedant]

agree Boo

some of them I think are real and others you can see are just good actors ....

[Sqad]

"Good actors!" LOL.....LOL.....LOL.....LOL

[Cloverjo]

It's a freak show and they are genuine, I believe. They are put up in a hotel and given free booze in order to wind them up even more. I know this because I work in an area that caters for this type of people (please don't sledge me for this, we know the kind of people we're talking about)

[Bazile]

I'm thinking of going on . cos her indoors refuses to cut my toe nails ,anymore

[viv41]

I sometimes watch it for a good laugh !

[Answerprancer]

You and thousands of others Viv - that's why it works.

[viv41]

You often see the audience creasing up at the antics !

[cleggie]

*** false program.Not real they are all actors given a script to learn.no one would go on national tv and air this stuff.just money making for kyle and tv company.if anyone believes this stuff is real they need medical helf

[andy-hughes]

cleggie - //*** false program.Not real they are all actors given a script to learn.no one would go on national tv and air this stuff.just money making for kyle and tv company.if anyone believes this stuff is real they need medical helf //

I don't agree.

Do you really think they could employ that many people, day in, day out, and they would not be tracked down by the media and exposed as liars - as happened when Vanessa Feltz tried to do the exact same thing.

Don't imagine for one minute that such bizarre behaviour and situations could only come from scripted scenarios - to do so is to underestimate the sheer awfulness of some sections of the British public.

[Mamyalynne]

I think when you have millions of people living in a country there are bound to be some oddballs - I never watch it, doesn't interest me in the least.

[PankySmooch]

Of course they're real people, every council estate has its fair share of families fit for the JK show

[ummmm]

It's real. Some people are like that. Some people air their issues in the pub, some do it on TV and seem to treat it as a weekend away, an annual holiday!

[david small]

Calm down dear. Yes tis real my fellow bankers. There are such as these amid us. They breed and drink and fight and steal. They have no moral compass, and have no morals. I call them smellykids as they usually pong. Humanity has many strata, they are just at the lower end. Will they evolve?

[viv41]

Definitely real people.

[Caribeing]

pankysmooch I think it is unfair to say Council Estates provide Jeremy Kyle Contestants they come from everywhere available to go on the show, I have seen Jeremy go back to previous contestants who have lived in what you might call proper "streets". Today there were was a 35 year old woman battling it out over two 70+ men and a baby!! Brightens up a dull day knowing that you have a good life!!