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a quickie divorce during a hearing at the Central Family Court in High Holborn, Central London. Neither were present.
Jeremy and Carla were married in 2002. They met when she entered a competition called Two Strangers And A Wedding run by BRMB radio station in Birmingham, where Kyle was working.
As the winner, her prize was to marry a selected groom, called Greg Cordell.
But their marriage lasted just three months amid rumours Greg had had an affair – though he protested his inn ocence. Carla started dating Jeremy afterwards. The TV presenter was previously married to Kirsty Rowley, who he met in 1988 when he was working as a recruitment consultant in Bristol. They wed in 1989, only to split a year later. They have a daughter called Harriet, 26.
In 2007 Kirsty told how their relationship had broken down because of a gambling habit he was battling with.
She said Jeremy had frittered away £70,000 and had previously run up £4,500 debts at the bookies and on betting phone lines.
Jeremy also spoke about the addiction – which he eventually overcame – in his 2009 book I’m Only Being Honest.
He wrote: “Gambling is the mistress that truly seduced me. I will never understand what a hit of heroin feels like, but gambling I get. Big time. Plenty of days I can remember t taking money out of the cashpoint and going to t the bookies and then l losing and going again to t the cashpoint – and back again and again.
“I would think ‘I’ve got to go now’ but there was this pull and suddenly I was chasing money, trying to achieve something that has never been achieved: making a bookie poor.”
In 2012 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer but was given the all-clear after chemotherapy and surgery.
Aside from his daytime show, famed for its lie detector test and confrontational style, he has fronted dozens of programmes for ITV. In 2015 he presented two series of primetime show The Kyle Files.
He also presented a 10-part series called Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room. The show returned in March 2016.
And last year he also stood in for Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain.
He started his career on local radio before getting his break broadcasting on national station Virgin – presenting Jezza’s Virgin Confessions every weeknight.
In 2004 he ran a similar Confessions Show on London’s Capital FM.
It proved so popular he was poached by TV bosses and in 2007 The Jeremy Kyle Show began.
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