Jeremy Kyle
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Kyle at Radio Festival in 2010
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| Born | Jeremy Neil Kyle (1965-07-07) 7 July 1965 (age 59)
Reading, Berkshire, England
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| Years active | 1996–present |
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(m. 1989; div. 1991)Carla Germaine
(m. 2003; div. 2016)Vicky Burton (m. 2021) |
| Children | 6 |
Jeremy Neil Kyle (born 7 July 1965)[1][2] is an English broadcaster and writer. He is known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle ShowonITV from 2005 to 2019.[3][4] He also hosted a US version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011.[5] Since 2022, Kyle has been a presenter for Talk.
Kyle was born in Reading, Berkshire,[2] and is of Scottish descent.[6] His father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years. Kyle has claimed that his older brother, Nick, has experienced drug addiction.[7]
He attended the Reading Blue Coat School, a boys' private schoolinSonning, Berkshire.[8]
Kyle's first job was at Marks & Spencer.[9] He studied History and Sociology at the University of SurreyinGuildford.[10]
From 1986 to 1995, Kyle worked as a life insurance salesman, recruitment consultant, and radio advertising salesman.[8] He then became a radio presenter and after working at Orchard FMinTaunton, Somerset, and Leicester SoundinLeicester, he was signed by Kent's Invicta FM in 1996. In 1997, he joined BRMBinBirmingham, presenting the shows Late & Live and Jezza's Jukebox.[11]
In 2000, Kyle moved to the Century FM network, taking this format with him. The show was called Jezza's Confessions. It was broadcast between 9 pm and 1 am. He won a Sony Award for Late & Live in 2001.[8] On 1 July 2002, he made his first broadcast on Virgin Radio, presenting Jezza's Virgin Confessions every weekday from 8 pm to midnight. In mid-2003, he broadcast the show from 9 pm to 1 am every weekday, and in January 2004 the show went out from 10 pm to 1 am, Sunday to Thursday. He left Virgin Radio in June 2004. From 5 September 2004, Kyle presented the Confessions show on London's Capital FM. The new programme aired Sunday to Thursday from 10 pm to 1 am with live calls on relationship issues of all kinds. Capital Confessions came to an end on 22 December 2005 to make way for The Jeremy Kyle Show, a similar show which ran from January 2006 to December 2006.
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, were a part. The programme differed from his previous shows in that he interviewed celebrities. Kyle also began broadcasting a new programme, on Essex FM, in November 2007. Kyle joined Talksport on 21 September 2008 to present a lunchtime sports show every Sunday called The Jeremy Kyle Sunday Sports Show. As a result of Talksport's Premiership coverage on a Sunday, Kyle's show was cancelled, and he left the station.[12]
In 2022 TalkRadio paid a “substantial” libel settlement to Labour MP Barry Gardiner regarding a false claim, broadcast by Jeremy Kyle on the station.[13]
In 2005, Kyle moved his format to ITV with a programme also entitled The Jeremy Kyle Show. Members of his production team later accused Kyle of looking down on his guests.[14] He was recorded referring to participants on his show that day as "thick as shit".[14]
In September 2007, Manchester judge Alan Berg[15] described the show as "trash" which existed to "titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do".[16]
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 child later pointed an air rifle at her.[17] Other shows Kyle is involved with include Kyle's Academy, a ten-part series for ITV daytime which first aired on 18 June 2007.[17] A team of experts (life coaches and psychotherapists), headed by Kyle, takes five people and works 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.[citation needed]
On 19 April 2011, Kyle began presenting a documentary series called Military Driving School, where he visited the Defence School of TransportatLeconfield in East Yorkshire, following a group of new recruits as they undergo training as front line military drivers. In 2011, he was the presenter of the ITV game show High Stakes.[18]
In 2015 and 2019, Kyle presented two series of The Kyle Files, a primetime show on ITV.[19]
In 2015, he fronted a ten-part daytime series called Jeremy Kyle's Emergency Room. The show returned for a second series in March 2016.[20][21]
From March 2016 until August 2018 Kyle relief presented ITV's breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.[22][23]
In May 2019, the recording and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle Show was suspended after a guest committed suicide shortly after appearing in an episode of the series. A review of the episode occurred before any resumption of the programme's transmission,[3] and on 15 May 2019, ITV confirmed that the series had ceased production with immediate effect.[24] It has since been revealed that more guests had taken their own lives following their appearances in this and another programme hosted by Kyle on Channel 5, Britain's Worst Husband.[25]
Kyle began developing a new show for ITV three months after his show was cancelled. ITV's director of television Kevin Lygo said a pilot episode was being made with Kyle, but the new show would not air in The Jeremy Kyle Show's old timeslot.[26]
In early September 2021, it was announced that Kyle would present TalkRadio Drivetime between Monday and Thursday. The show started on 13 September.[27] In April 2022, he announced his return to television to present a primetime show for TalkTV.[28]
He stated in his book I'm Only Being Honest, published in 2009, that he has obsessive–compulsive disorder.[29]
Kyle's first marriage to Kirsty Rowley in 1989 was short-lived because of his addiction to gambling,[30] which made him accumulate a debt which peaked at £12,000, and took some years to pay off.[7][29] He married Carla Germaine in 2002. The couple separated amicably in 2015; they had three children.[31] Their divorce was confirmed the following February.[32] Kyle also has a daughter from his first marriage.[30]
In late 2012, Kyle was diagnosed with testicular cancer.[33] He received chemotherapy and underwent surgery to remove the affected testicle.[9]
In February 2018, Kyle announced his engagement to Vicky Burton, his children's former nanny.[34] They got married in October 2021 in Windsor, Berkshire, where the couple live.[35][36] They have two children together.[37]
In 2021, Kyle stated that he had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder after The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed.[38]
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2005–2019 | The Jeremy Kyle Show | Presenter |
| 2006 | An Audience with Coronation Street | Guest appearance |
| 2007 | Coronation Street Confidential | |
| 2009 | The Fattest Man in Britain | Presenter |
| 2010 | This Morning Summer | |
| 2011 | Military Driving School | |
| High Stakes | ||
| 2011–2013 | The Jeremy Kyle Show USA | |
| 2013 | Sunday Scoop | Guest presenter |
| 2013–2015 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Himself |
| 2014 | Celebrity Jeremy Kyle | Presenter |
| 2015 | World Championships Snooker | Celebrity player |
| 2015–2017 | Jeremy Kyle's Emergency Room | Presenter |
| 2015–2019 | The Kyle Files | |
| 2016–2018 | Good Morning Britain | Relief presenter |
| 2019 | Kyle's House | Presenter |
| Cold Feet | Himself | |
| 2022 | Piers Morgan Uncensored | Stand in presenter |
| 2022–2023 | Jeremy Kyle Live | Presenter |
| 2023–2024 | Talk Today | Monday-Thursday with Nicola Thorp |
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