Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Neil Kyle (born 7 July 1965) is an English broadcaster and writer.

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

He 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 1997, he joined BRMB in Birmingham, presenting the shows Late & Live and Jezza's Jukebox.

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

The show was called Jezza's Confessions.

It was broadcast between 9pm and 1am.

He won a Sony Award for Late & Live in 2001.

On 1 July 2002, he made his first broadcast on Virgin Radio, presenting Jezza's Virgin Confessions every weekday from 8pm to midnight.

In mid-2003, he broadcast the show from 9pm to 1am every weekday, and in January 2004 the show went out from 10pm to 1am, Sunday to Thursday.

He left Virgin Radio in June 2004.

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

The new programme aired Sunday to Thursday from 10pm to 1am with live calls on relationship issues of all kinds.

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

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 2005, Kyle moved his format to ITV with a programme also entitled The Jeremy Kyle Show.

Members of his production team later accused Kyle of looking down on his guests.

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

In late 2007, Kyle began a new show (The Jeremy Kyle Show), broadcasting across GCap Media's One Network, of which Orchard FM, Invicta FM and BRMB, his previous employers, were a part.

The programme differed from his previous shows in that he interviewed celebrities.

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

In September 2007, Manchester judge Alan Berg described the show as "trash" which existed to "titillate bored members of the public with nothing better to do".

Other shows Kyle is involved with include Kyle's Academy, a ten-part series for ITV daytime which first aired on 18 June 2007.

A team of experts (life coaches and psychotherapists), headed by Kyle, takes five people and works with them over an intensive fortnight to help them on the road to a happier more fulfilled life.

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

Kyle joined Talksport on 21 September 2008 to present a lunchtime sports show every Sunday called The Jeremy Kyle Sunday Sports Show.

As a result of Talksport's Premiership coverage on a Sunday, Kyle's show was cancelled, and he left the station.

In 2022 TalkRadio paid a “substantial” libel settlement to Labour MP Barry Gardiner regarding a false claim, broadcast by Jeremy Kyle on the station.

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.

He also hosted a US version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011.

In 2022, Kyle became a presenter for TalkTV.

Kyle was born in Reading, Berkshire, and is of Scottish descent.

His father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years.

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

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

Kyle's first job was at Marks & Spencer.

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

On 19 April 2011, 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 2011, he was the presenter of the ITV game show High Stakes.

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