Jeremy Kyle reveals how he really feels about controversial show axe as he bares his soul to Kate Garraway

JEREMY Kyle has revealed how he really feels about his controversial show axe as he bares his soul to Kate Garraway in his first-ever TV interview.

Talk-show host Jeremy Kyle was the king of daytime for more than a decade.

Until his hit morning series The Jeremy Kyle Show was suddenly pulled off air in May 2019, following the suicide of a guest who filmed an episode of the show a week before his death.

Now, Jeremy reflects on that show’s cancellation as he opens up about his life and career as Kate Garraway’s first guest on the latest run of her interview series.

“I understand entirely that the Kyle Show had to fall on its sword as a result of that,”; he tells Kate.

“You can be the king of the castle one day and the next day not allowed in the castle grounds.”;

Looking back, Jeremy admits that his show – which ran for 3,320 episodes across 17 series – would never be commissioned today.

“We launched in 2005, that was just before the advent of social media and I think that changed everything,”; he says.

“And people... Would they watch it because it would help them? They’d feel better about their own lives?

“Many people were invested in it. The world has changed dramatically – you can’t say boo to a goose now, can you?

“But I’m immensely proud of those numbers of episodes, taking it to America and the people that we genuinely helped.”;

While Jeremy made his name for his no-nonsense attitude towards liars and cheats, he shares who the real man is away from the screens.

“Clumsy, idiotic, OCD...”; he says. “I tried to walk on at the beginning of this show and fell on my face!”;

Jeremy also discusses not fitting in as a youngster in Reading, Berkshire.

“I was the shyest boy in the school,”; he reveals. “There was this sort of seminal moment at 15 and a half.

“I worked out that if you became the loudest in the class and took the mickey out of the people that were taking it out of you, you’d be alright.

GMB's Kate Garraway and social care reform

KATE Garraway locked horns with Health Minister Wes Streeting in a debate over social care reform on GMB. Yet what is it? And when will it happen?

Kate Garraway – who tragically lost husband Derek Draper in January 2024 – has become a staunch advocate for social care reform and the plight of unpaid carers.

Yet as Health Secretary Wes Streeting appeared on ITV daytime show GMB on January 3, 2025 – the one-year anniversary of the death of her spouse – it was revealed the crucial plans may not be delivered until 2028.

It came after ministers announced the firststepsto creating a National Care Service.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting will today vow to “modernise”; the ­industry.

He is set to launch an independent commission — to be chaired by Baroness Louise Casey — on how to set up the National Care Service.

But she will not report back until next year on issues facing social care.

A second phase — with recommendations for the longer term — is not expected until 2028.

Experts have now urged the government to accelerate the process.

Kate herself said the country cannot wait “another four years” for it to happen.

“And that’s what I did. It was a mask, really.”;

A life-insurance salesman and recruitment consultant before becoming a highly regarded broadcaster, Jeremy credits his career success to the work ethic he inherited from his parents.

“You have to get off your backside and go and do something,”; he says.

He concludes: “People always said when we were doing the show: ‘You’re really lucky.’ And I always used to fire back and go: ‘It’s funny, the harder I work the luckier I seem to get.’”;

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Life Stories: Jeremy Kyle airs Tuesday, April 1 at 9pm ITV1.