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utterly cringeworthy. I've never known such a know it all, patronising coont!
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For the past decade Jeremy Kyle has been serving up dysfunctional peoples’ personal, emotional and addiction problems as cheap entertainment on his ITV daytime show. Its confrontational format (famously described by a judge as “a human form of bear-baiting”) regularly prompts the thought “Can TV go any lower?”.
Well, it seems Kyle and his producers reckoned the answer to that question was a resounding yes. Why else dream up Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room (ITV), which marries the cringe-factor of Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies to the set of Casualty by inviting the public to come into an “emergency room” and have their most intimate ailments discussed in front of an audience of, presumably, millions?
Not wishing to be rude to the people who took part – a lady with such severe lymphodema that her legs weighed seven stone each; a man with a mysterious lump on his neck; a young father addicted to pain killers; a couple whose relationship had been effected by a lump “down under”; and a woman whose breast implants had ruptured – but what would possess anyone to seek medical help from Jeremy Kyle?
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Strutting around like the world’s most pompous triage nurse, his function was to meet the patients, get a sense of their problems (“How’s that feel?”), introduce them to the specialists on hand (“I’m not the expert, Dr Rachel is”) interrupt at every opportunity mid-examination (You continue with that, Doc”), then attempt to repeat the doctor’s diagnosis, presumably for viewers with hearing problems.
As the doctors did their work – all three seemed quite sensibly determined to take as little notice as possible of Kyle – worried partners and friends who accompanied them fretted, elaborated, explained and, on one or two occasions, wept. Meanwhile Nurse Jeremy deftly danced around the elephant in the examination room: why had none of this been dealt with by the patients’ own doctors? But previous medical history was a subject that seemed, oddly, off the table.
Did the people who took part get any benefit? It’s hard to say. They got diagnoses and reassurance – which clearly gave them some relief – and the promise of further help down the line.
I’m even less sure what was in it for viewers, other than the sky high cringe factor – cushion-chewingly so whenever the examinations got intimate. How this could be screened pre-watershed I really do know. In the end, you have to ask yourself: when a doctor picks up a speculum, explains its function and what she intends doing with it, and a TV presenter asks “Do you mind if I stay here for this?” – is the patient the only sick one in the room?
Jeremy Kyle - a despicable person, with no morals whatsoever
Well, it seems Kyle and his producers reckoned the answer to that question was a resounding yes. Why else dream up Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room (ITV), which marries the cringe-factor of Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies to the set of Casualty by inviting the public to come into an “emergency room” and have their most intimate ailments discussed in front of an audience of, presumably, millions?
Not wishing to be rude to the people who took part – a lady with such severe lymphodema that her legs weighed seven stone each; a man with a mysterious lump on his neck; a young father addicted to pain killers; a couple whose relationship had been effected by a lump “down under”; and a woman whose breast implants had ruptured – but what would possess anyone to seek medical help from Jeremy Kyle?
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Strutting around like the world’s most pompous triage nurse, his function was to meet the patients, get a sense of their problems (“How’s that feel?”), introduce them to the specialists on hand (“I’m not the expert, Dr Rachel is”) interrupt at every opportunity mid-examination (You continue with that, Doc”), then attempt to repeat the doctor’s diagnosis, presumably for viewers with hearing problems.
As the doctors did their work – all three seemed quite sensibly determined to take as little notice as possible of Kyle – worried partners and friends who accompanied them fretted, elaborated, explained and, on one or two occasions, wept. Meanwhile Nurse Jeremy deftly danced around the elephant in the examination room: why had none of this been dealt with by the patients’ own doctors? But previous medical history was a subject that seemed, oddly, off the table.
Did the people who took part get any benefit? It’s hard to say. They got diagnoses and reassurance – which clearly gave them some relief – and the promise of further help down the line.
I’m even less sure what was in it for viewers, other than the sky high cringe factor – cushion-chewingly so whenever the examinations got intimate. How this could be screened pre-watershed I really do know. In the end, you have to ask yourself: when a doctor picks up a speculum, explains its function and what she intends doing with it, and a TV presenter asks “Do you mind if I stay here for this?” – is the patient the only sick one in the room?
Jeremy Kyle - a despicable person, with no morals whatsoever
Jeremy Kyle - a despicable person, with no morals whatsoever
Sums up his audiences as well.
Sums up his audiences as well.
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