Jeremy pitted Us against Them and Tories cheered on
No baby love for Meghan’s dad...
The self-obsessed Markle family have been shouting their mouths off again, demanding baby Archie should be part of their lives?
Why in God’s name would Meghan and Harry ever consider that?
Thomas Markle and his gobby daughter Samantha have been nothing but a cruel, embarrassing thorn in the side of the royal couple since they started dating, using every opportunity to smear Meghan in the public eye.
No woman in their right mind would take the risk of allowing them to do the same to her child.
Thomas Markle has been an atrocious father to Meghan over the past few years – and there’s little to indicate he was much better in the years which went before.
So there is not a shred of evidence that he would be a decent grandfather to Archie.
The clearest insight yet into Meghan’s father was the interview this paper ran on Saturday with his first wife Roslyn Markle.
I think we can understand everything Meghan has had to contend with when we read Roslyn’s damning verdict on her ex-husband as an “awful father”.
Thomas denies the claims. But then he would, wouldn’t he?
There is however one woman who knows better than anyone what Thomas was really like as a father.
And she’ll deliver her verdict when she decides whether Archie ever sees his grandad. Look of love with Meghan and Archie THE Jeremy Kyle Show looks destined never to smear itself across our television screens again. The programme, which took some of the most vulnerable, hopeless, helpless and, quite frankly, stupid people in Britain, then wound them up into a frenzy of incoherent anger, grief or outrage, cannot possibly resurface now 62-year-old granddad Steven Dymond has apparently killed himself.
Mr Dymond had told friends he was suffering from depression some months before he appeared on the show, determined a lie detector test would prove he hadn’t cheated on his girlfriend. It didn’t.
And now, whether Mr Dymond cheated or didn’t cheat, whether the lie detector was accurate or faulty, doesn’t matter. What does matter is after being barracked by a baying studio audience in the name of entertainment a grown man seems to have taken his own life. Which leaves ITV CRUEL PANTO Jeremy Kyle
facing two big questions. Firstly... what on earth was The Jeremy Kyle Show doing on its network in the first place?
As Gavin Hill, who filmed a video about the show seven years ago tells this paper today, this was a tragedy waiting to happen.
And those highly paid TV executives, who turned a blind eye to their embarrassing carbuncle lodged between the wholesome viewing of Lorraine and This Morning, knew it.
The format whipped up pantomime-style goodies and baddies but without warmth, only cruelty and ridicule.
And whatever after care and counselling they put in place – which admittedly seems quite good – cannot simply erase such terrible public humiliation and heartbreak.
The Jeremy Kyle Show may We could always ask our politicians what they think about daytime TV – they’re certainly the only folk I know with enough time to watch it.
In the last month, our MPs have not voted on anything. Nil.
Nada.
Zilch.
They’ve done diddly-squat as the country goes to hell in a Tory-steered handcart.
They did however manage
A takeaway chain is to become the first in the country to offer insects for lunch. Abokado – which has 23 shops – is to sell packets of crickets in three flavours; peri-peri, sweet chilli & lime, and barbecue. I think I’ll stick with Monster Munch. have pitched itself as a moral crusade seeking justice in murky relationship sewers. But we all know its real purpose was to allow its viewers to be the ‘Us’ who point and sneer at ‘Them’ – people who’d do or say anything for five minutes of fame and a bus fare home.
In so doing, it propagated some of the worst narratives about ‘Them’, which Tory politicians have been using to their advantage ever since.
When the studio audience heckled and bayed it was like they weren’t just angry at the hapless individuals on stage in front of them, they were angry at everything they represented.
So much so that the phrase “totally Jeremy Kyle” became a form of abuse anyone could understand.
But of course there’s a second big question ITV must answer too. Where on earth will they find such good ratings from at that time of day again?
Centuries may have passed since people lined up to watch the entertainment in the colosseum or at the gallows... but the audience for cruelty remains. to squeeze in an Easter break, an early May break a fortnight later and, whacked out as they must be, there’s another week off at the end of this month.
What are they going to do now Jeremy Kyle is off air?
The world’s oldest man has died » apparently (that’s apparently, mind you) at the age of 123. Appaz Iliev put his extraordinary longevity down to never going to bed later than 7pm.
Which must mean he never endured a single episode of EastEnders – surely that’s the secret of long life…
‘‘ Audience heckled and bayed, angry at all they represented