Jeremy Kyle

This rigorous documentary brims with quiet fury as it looks at The Jeremy Kyle Show and the death of Steve Dymond, who killed himself in 2019, ...

One of the production team accuses Kyle of looking down on his guests, and in unbroadcast footage, we see him call his guests that day “thick as shit”. The judge who famously described the show as “a human form of bear-baiting under the guise of entertainment” when sentencing one guest convicted of ABH when he head-butted another guest (the show was not broadcast) is scathing about its claims of “conflict resolution”. That guest appears here to talk about the effect the conviction had on his life. The other was simply that he wanted to prove that he had not cheated on Jane, and the show offered him a lie detector test that he would not have been able to pay for privately. It is an awful indictment of social care funding in the UK that for many of these guests, a TV show that turned their trauma into entertainment appeared to be the only way that they could get the help they needed.There are attempts to explain the popularity of the show by linking it to British comedies that parodied people on benefits, for example, though I think that is an easy target, and there is no mention of the US culture of confrontational chatshows that the The Jeremy Kyle Show clearly adopted. Her daughter was put into rehab as a result of appearing, yet watching Kyle berate her daughter on the show, where he speaks to her with such appalling venom and disdain – “What are you?”, “You’re disgusting” – is abhorrent. Considering that this is a story about exploitation, great care has been taken to avoid that here, but there are moments that made me feel uneasy; I am not sure what there was to be gained by allowing viewers to hear the distressed, sobbing final voicenotes that Dymond left for his ex-partner.But overall, this is a withering account of how The Jeremy Kyle Show functioned. He lost his job, his home was repossessed and his mental health suffered.All of the interviewees here are dealing with pain, and there is a real rawness on display. The idea, it seems, was to push them for a better performance, although we’re told that ITV denies this and are shown a statement that says: “ITV would never condone any of its production staff misleading or lying to guests.”It is a difficult watch, for a great many reasons. ITV claimed, and continues to claim via a lengthy statement at the end of this film, that the aim of the show was to provide “conflict resolution” for its guests. Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime review – a shocking exposé of the ITV seriesThis rigorous documentary brims with quiet fury as it looks at The Jeremy Kyle Show and the death of Steve Dymond, who killed himself in 2019, days after appearing ‘Moving honesty’ … Steve Dymond’s fiancé Jane, discusses the aftermath of appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show. Photograph: Channel 4‘Moving honesty’ … Steve Dymond’s fiancé Jane, discusses the aftermath of appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show. Photograph: Channel 4eremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime (Channel 4) is a crass title for a rigorous documentary. Steve Dymond was a guest on the show in May 2019, taking a lie detector test to prove to his partner, Jane, that he had not been unfaithful. They talk about a culture that not only expected conflict but actively encouraged it; one camera operator who worked backstage describes it as “back-to-back psychological carnage”. They say they would lie to the families of addicts by telling them that they were in competition for a place at rehab, when they were going to be given a place anyway. He saw The Jeremy Kyle Show as a potential saviour.“You go on the show because you’re desperate,” says a former member of the production team.

Steve Dymond, 62, from Portsmouth, had been trying to win back Jane Callaghan after denying he had cheated on her - but failed a lie detector test for the ...

The final part of Channel 4's documentary Death on Daytime aired on Monday night, with many viewers taking to twitter to condemn Jeremy Kyle for his ...

He said: “I’m sorry, but as shocking as some of this #JeremyKyle stuff is, it always seemed obvious to me how exploitative the show was. Let us know in the comments! DavidMackayy said: "This is exactly what’s wrong with the world. It also served as a wakeup call for one viewer, who had previously enjoyed watching the show. Did you catch the show? She said: “ His presenting style on the show was disgusting. Aside from generalised criticisms, one user @tomatoshrimping took umbrage at the fact Kyle himself was allegedly a hypocrite. @Femme434 was also shocked by the footage shared in the documentary. Try telling that to a family whose family member has killed themselves due to the show. “They’re thick as s—” “They are terrible f---ing guests,” he complained backstage. There is a way of speaking to ppl and his partly culpable...