26 Facts About Jeremy Kyle

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

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

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

Jeremy Kyle's father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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, broadcasting across GCap Media's One Network, of which Orchard FM, Invicta FM and BRMB, his previous employers, were a part.

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

Jeremy Kyle was recorded referring to participants on his show that day as "thick as shit".

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.

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

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.

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

From March 2016 until August 2018 Jeremy 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 committed suicide shortly after appearing in an episode of the series.

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

Jeremy Kyle denied humiliating the guest on his former talk show a week earlier, in an attempt to prove he had cheated on his partner.

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

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

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