Jeremy Kyle

Infobox Person
name = Jeremy Kyle
image_size = 180
caption = Kyle with wife Carla
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birth_date = birth date and age|1965|7|07
birth_place = Canning Town, London, UK
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nationality = British
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known_for = "The Jeremy Kyle Show"
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occupation = TV talk show host
spouse = Kirsty Rowley (1989-1991) (divorced); Carla Germaine (2003-)
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children = Harriet, Alice and Ava


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Jeremy Kyle (born July 7, 1965 in Canning Town, London) is a British radio and television broadcaster, best known for his own daytime talk show on ITV, "The Jeremy Kyle Show".

Radio career

After graduating from the University of Surrey, [cite episode |title= |episodelink= |series= University Challenge|serieslink= |credits= |network= BBC2|station= |airdate= 28 July 2008|season= |seriesno= |number= |minutes= ] Kyle began his career in radio in 1992 for GWR (Great Western Radio) near Swindon, Wiltshire, he worked as a Sales Representative selling advertising space. In 1995 he worked in the Sales department at Orchard FM. [ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=398160&in_page_id=1879 The secrets of the Jeremy Kyle show | the Daily Mail ] ] After a brief stint presenting, he was signed by Kent's Invicta FM in 1996. In 1997, he joined Birmingham's BRMB, presenting "Late & Live" every Sunday - Friday from 10pm - 1am. He also presented "Jezza's Jukebox".

In 2000, Kyle moved to the Century FM network, taking this format with him. The show was called "Jezza's Confessions". It broadcast between 9pm and 1am. On July 1, 2002, he made his first broadcast on Virgin Radio, presenting "Jezza's Virgin Confessions" every weekday 8pm - Midnight. In mid 2003 he broadcast the show from 9pm - 1am every weekday and, in January 2004, the show went out 10pm - 1am Sunday - Thursday. The beginning of June 2004 saw his departure from Virgin Radio.

In July 2004, Capital Radio announced it had signed Kyle to present the Confessions show on London's Capital FM from September 5, 2004. The new programme aired from Sunday to Thursday 10pm - 1am including live calls on relationship issues of all kinds. "Capital Confessions" came to an end on December 22, 2005, to make way for "The Jeremy Kyle Show", a similar show which ran from January 2006 to December 2006, at which point Kyle left radio altogether.

In late 2007, Kyle began a new show ("The Jeremy Kyle Show"), broadcasting across Gcap Media's One Network, of which Orchard FM, Invicta FM and BRMB, his previous employers, are a part. The programme differs from his previous shows in that he now interviews other celebrities. Kyle also began broadcasting a new show, on Essex FM, in November 2007 [ [http://www.essexfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=496534&spid=19263 Jeremy's Bio - Essex FM ] ] .

In July 2008, it was announced that Kyle would be joining talkSPORT from September 21, 2008 to present a lunchtime sports show every Sunday called The Jeremy Kyle Sunday Sports Show.

TV career

In 2005 Kyle moved his format to ITV, with a programme also entitled "The Jeremy Kyle Show". Here Kyle has reached his widest audience to date. His often aggressive manner with guests (parodied by Dead Ringers) has been the source of both popularity and criticism. He is seemingly unafraid of reprisal from his guests, believing that speaking his mind is better than holding his peace. Guests sometimes take offence at Kyle's comments, one guest even attempting to throw a chair at him, but he often justifies his criticism by claiming that he only wants to help them. Kyle recently claimed on air that his show was watched by 1.8 million viewers, a very high figure for a daytime chat show. The programme has also been parodied in the BBC comedy "The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle".

In September 2007 Judge Alan Berg described The Jeremy Kyle Show, popular with students, as trash which existed to "titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do". He went on to say "It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to affect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil" and added that it was "human bear-baiting". [cite news
title = Judge blasts Kyle show as 'trash'
publisher = BBC News
date = 25 September, 2007
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7011962.stm
accessdate = 2007-10-04]

In February 2008, The Jeremy Kyle Show was again criticised in court after a man who found out during the recording of a show that he was not the father of his wife's baby later pointed an air rifle at her. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7243174.stm BBC NEWS | Wales | Attack after Kyle show 'tragedy'] ]

Other shows Kyle is involved with include "Kyle's Academy", a ten part series for ITV1 daytime which first aired on 18th June 2007. A team of experts (life coaches and psychotherapists), headed by Jeremy Kyle take 5 people and work with them over an intensive fortnight to help them on the road to a happier more fulfilled life.

Kyle has also presented "Half Ton Hospital", a show about morbidly obese people in the United States.

Family life

Kyle has one daughter, Harriet (born June 1990), with his first wife Kirsty Holt whom he married in July 1989 in Almondsbury near Bristol. They had met in autumn 1988 at a Bristol recruitment agency where she was a 20 year old secretary and he was 22.Fact|date=December 2007 They became engaged in December 1988, and their marriage lasted until December 1990, during which time his wife claims that Kyle had carefully concealed a gambling habit from her. [ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=491599&in_page_id=1773 'He lied... he called me a slut. Jeremy Kyle could be a guest on his own show, ' claims first wife | the Daily Mail ] ] He married former model Carla Germaine in December 2002 in North Warwickshire; the pair met when Kyle was presenting on a BRMB radio show and Germaine was a winning contestant to be a bride for a controversial "Two Strangers and a Wedding" contest hosted by the station. [ [http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/page.cfm?objectid=16553747&method=full&siteid=50002 icBirmingham - Blind date wedding contest to return] ] They since have two daughters together named Alice (born January 2004) and Ava (born October 2005).

References

External links

* [http://tv.blinkx.com "Full Episodes of The Jeremy Kyle Show at blinkx Remote"]
* [http://www.itv.com/jeremykyle "The Jeremy Kyle Show"] at itv.com
* [http://www.jeremykyleonline.com "The Jeremy Kyle Show UNCUT"]