Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Neil Kyle (born 7 July 1965) He also hosted an American version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011. Since 2022, Kyle has been a presenter for Talk.

Early life Kyle was born in Reading, Berkshire, and is of Scottish descent. His father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years. Kyle has said that his older brother, Nick, has experienced drug addiction.

He attended the Reading Blue Coat School, a boys' private school in Sonning, Berkshire. He studied History and Sociology at the University of Surrey in Guildford.

Career Radio From 1986 to 1995, Kyle worked as a life insurance salesman, recruitment consultant, and radio advertising salesman. He then became a radio presenter and after working at Orchard FM in Taunton, Somerset, and Leicester Sound in Leicester, he was signed by Kent's Invicta FM in 1996. In 1997, he joined BRMB in Birmingham, presenting the shows Late & Live and 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 was broadcast between 9pm and 1am. He won a Sony Award for Late & Live in 2001.

In 2022, TalkRadio paid a "substantial" libel settlement to Labour MP Barry Gardiner regarding a false claim, broadcast by Jeremy Kyle on the station.

Television 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. He was recorded referring to participants on his show that day as "thick as shit". described the show as "trash" which existed to "titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do".

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. Other shows Kyle is involved with include Kyle's Academy, a ten-part series for ITV daytime which first aired on 18 June 2007.

In 2015 and 2019, Kyle presented two series of The Kyle Files, a primetime show on ITV.

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.

From March 2016 until August 2018, Kyle relief presented ITV's breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.

In May 2019, the recording and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle Show was suspended after a guest died by suicide shortly after appearing in an episode of the series. A review of the episode occurred before any resumption of the programme's transmission, and on 15 May 2019, ITV confirmed that the series had ceased production with immediate effect. 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.

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 Shows old timeslot.

In early September 2021, it was announced that Kyle would present TalkRadio Drivetime between Monday and Thursday. The show started on 13 September. In April 2022, he announced his return to television to present a primetime show for TalkTV.

In September 2024, the inquest for 63-year-old Steve Dymond, in Winchester, heard that he had been found dead from the combined effect of a morphine overdose and a heart condition, at his home in Portsmouth in May 2019. Kyle denied humiliating the guest on his former talk show a week earlier, in an attempt to prove he had cheated on his partner. In the footage, shown at the inquest, Kyle told the guest to "grow a pair" and "I wouldn't trust you with a chocolate button". Dymond's son Carl Woolley told the inquest his father had been "very down" after the recording and told the hearing: "Jeremy Kyle had got the crowd to egg on, to boo at him and stuff, he was cast as the liar before he had even spoken." On 10 September, however, the coroner ruled that there was "no causal link" between Dymond's appearance on the show and his subsequent death.

Personal life He stated in his book I'm Only Being Honest, published in 2009, that he has obsessive–compulsive disorder.

Kyle's first marriage to Kirsty Rowley in 1989 was short-lived because of his addiction to gambling, which made him accumulate a debt which peaked at £12,000, and took some years to pay off. Their divorce was confirmed the following February. Kyle also has a daughter from his first marriage. He received chemotherapy and underwent surgery to remove the affected testicle. They got married in October 2021 in Windsor, Berkshire, where the couple live. They have two children together.

In 2021, Kyle stated that he had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder after The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled.

Kyle is a fan of West Ham United.

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