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The spiked podcast

112: Jeremy Kyle: how pleb-bashing went mainstream

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jeremy Kyle, Alabama’s abortion ban and Change UK. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.   Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:05.0

Spike's deputy editor Tom Slater,

0:07.0

Hello, and spike columnist Ella Wheelen.

0:09.0

Hi.

0:10.0

Coming up on the show today,

0:12.0

Jeremy Kyle, the war on abortion rights and change UK.

0:17.0

The DNA testers are sure that Ash is not the child's...

0:20.0

The broadcast of the I TV saying that now is the right time for the Jeremy Kyle show to end.

0:27.0

The couple split up after he failed the show's famous lie detector test.

0:32.0

A week later, he was found dead. It's disgraceful, it's fair-bating,

0:36.4

that's all it's ever been. It's attacking poor people.

0:39.6

I TV has ax the Jeremy Kyle Show, its most popular daytime show after 14 years and 3,000 episodes.

0:51.0

A man who appeared on the show Steve Diamond was found dead last Thursday a week after filming.

0:57.0

The precise circumstances of Diamond's death are not yet known, but it follows the deaths of two Love Island contestants and has raised questions about reality TV's duty of care to its participants.

1:07.0

The Jeremy Kyle show has also long been controversial, with many accusing the show of vilifying the working class.

1:13.0

Tom, what are your thoughts on this?

1:15.0

So just by way of kind of introduction, I guess,

1:17.0

Jeremy Carl, particularly for international listeners,

1:19.0

who might not know what it is, is this kind of talk show,

1:22.0

it's a sort of pound shop,

1:23.0

Jerry Springer, British version, in which people come on to talk through their

1:26.6

relationship issues, paternity issues, are they cheating on their partner, is that

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