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West Ender · 27-11-2008, 20:39

First, I must confess to an addiction. It's ever since I was ill and have trained myself not to be rising with the lark and having a lineful of washing out by 9 a.m. I get up about 8.30, have orange juice and read the paper then, still in my dressing gown, I make my breakfast. It's usually about 9.30 by then so I put the TV on and, while eating it, watch Jeremy Kyle.

Blame Nik, she used to put it on, on her days off, and I've become hooked. I have to have my Kyle fix.

This programme absolutely fascinates me, even though I can't abide Jeremy Kyle. The people who appear on the show obviously live in the same world as I do but they are, almost, a different species. Their lives seem to consist of lies, deceit, often drugs and alcohol and, almost always, lots of random sexual partners.

Now this, in itself, would be one thing but - why do they parade it all on television? For example - a couple, no longer together, on today's show. He wants to know if he's the father of her child. If he is, he wants "full custody" (he doesn't work, of course) but if he's not he doesn't want anything to do with the poor mite. OK, Jeremy Kyle gives them the result of DNA tests and, lo and behold, he's not the daddy (cue derision from not-the-daddy's present partner, a real "lady", who dances around the stage whooping "Told ya".) Never mind the rights and wrongs or the ins and outs, why did they have to appear on the show to find out? All they had to do was arrange DNA tests through their GP.

No, the one thing they all want, without exception, is to "be on the telly". It may, to you and me, be more like infamy but, to them, it's fame and they love it. Think about it, if you have a serious problem are you going to appear on a TV show fronted by a TV presenter - Jeremy Kyle is not a psychologist, a therapist or a counsellor, he's just a TV journalist - or are you going to get professional help? Would you appear on this show?

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Another World First, I must confess to an addiction. It's ever since I was ill and have trained myself not to be rising with the lark and having a lineful of washing out by 9 a.m. I get up about 8.30, have orange juice and read the paper then, still in my dressing gown, I make my breakfast. It's usually about 9.30 by then so I put the TV on and, while eating it, watch Jeremy Kyle. Blame Nik, she used to put it on, on her days off, and I've become hooked. I have to have my Kyle fix. This programme absolutely fascinates me, even though I can't abide Jeremy Kyle. The people who appear on the show obviously live in the same world as I do but they are, almost, a different species. Their lives seem to consist of lies, deceit, often drugs and alcohol and, almost always, lots of random sexual partners. Now this, in itself, would be one thing but - why do they parade it all on television? For example - a couple, no longer together, on today's show. He wants to know if he's the father of her child. If he is, he wants "full custody" (he doesn't work, of course) but if he's not he doesn't want anything to do with the poor mite. OK, Jeremy Kyle gives them the result of DNA tests and, lo and behold, he's not the daddy (cue derision from not-the-daddy's present partner, a real "lady", who dances around the stage whooping "Told ya".) Never mind the rights and wrongs or the ins and outs, why did they have to appear on the show to find out? All they had to do was arrange DNA tests through their GP. No, the one thing they all want, without exception, is to "be on the telly". It may, to you and me, be more like infamy but, to them, it's fame and they love it. Think about it, if you have a serious problem are you going to appear on a TV show fronted by a TV presenter - Jeremy Kyle is not a psychologist, a therapist or a counsellor, he's just a TV journalist - or are you going to get professional help? Would you appear on this show? __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.