26 Facts About Jeremy Kyle

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Jeremy Kyle was born on 7 July 1965 and is an English broadcaster and writer.

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Jeremy Kyle is known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV from 2005 to 2019.

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Jeremy Kyle hosted a US version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011.

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In 2022, Kyle became a presenter for TalkRadio and TalkTV.

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Jeremy Kyle was born in Reading, Berkshire, and is of Scottish descent.

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Jeremy Kyle's father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for forty years.

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Jeremy Kyle has claimed that his older brother, Nick, has experienced drug addiction.

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Jeremy Kyle attended the Reading Blue Coat School, a boys' private school in Sonning, Berkshire.

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Jeremy Kyle studied History and Sociology at the University of Surrey in Guildford.

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From 1986 to 1995, Jeremy Kyle worked as a life insurance salesman, recruitment consultant, and radio advertising salesman.

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Jeremy Kyle 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.

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In 2000, Jeremy Kyle moved to the Century FM network, taking this format with him.

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From 5 September 2004, Jeremy Kyle presented the Confessions show on London's Capital FM.

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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.

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In late 2007, Kyle began a new show, broadcasting across GCap Media's One Network, of which Orchard FM, Invicta FM and BRMB, his previous employers, were a part.

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Jeremy Kyle began broadcasting a new programme, on Essex FM, in November 2007.

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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.

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

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On 19 April 2011, Jeremy Kyle began presenting a documentary series called Military Driving School, where he visited the Defence School of Transport at Leconfield in East Yorkshire, following a group of new recruits as they undergo training as front line military drivers.

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

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

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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.

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Jeremy Kyle began developing a new show for ITV three months after his show was cancelled.

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Jeremy Kyle received chemotherapy and underwent surgery to remove the affected testicle.

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In February 2018, Jeremy Kyle announced his engagement to Vicky Burton, his children's former nanny.

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