Talk Shows: Why do some people feel the need to discuss their problems on TV?

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sapphire

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I am not working today and have put the TV on to be quite amazed at programmes such as Jeremy Kyle and Trisha.

Why do you think people go on these TV shows? Is it to say they have been on TV or do they genuinely need the help they shout out they need. Seems to me quite a few of their problems would be resolved if they just sat down calmly with their families and discussed their problems instead of making a fool of themselves as some seem to do.

I must be old fashioned or even naive perhaps but I could never imagine publicly humiliating myself or my family in such a way.
Stormy - now I can understand why some people do it if they offer those incentives. I didn't know they did that! x
Corvette - I hang my head in shame as I have fallen in to that category - just for a fleeting moment though. x
 
It is abhorrent to consider airing my dirty linen in public.

These people are in some sort of parallel universe where its acceptable to contact the Kyle or Trisha show. I can just imagine it down the offy as an insult " Right I'm gonna get him on Jeremy to prove he's the f***ing Dad, you tell him that"

Also, as mentioned on JK, they pay your hotel bill, travel fares and about £100, so there is the incentive, a night in a hotel OMG!!! Plus all the food and booze they can shove down their fat necks for free.
 
I always think of those shows like the old Freak Shows they used to have at fairs. It gives the rest of us a chance to gawp at the poor unfortunates and feel good about ourselves...

Noone really cares about the people talking, or whether they get their problems sorted - as long as they give a bit of juicy entertainment it's all game.
 
I'm not even joking.. this is true...

I was on the bus and there was a man behind me & this other man got on the bus & went up to him and goes "Alright mate! I ain't seen you since we were on Jeremy Kyle".

Why would you admit to that on a busy bus?
Some people have no shame.
 
i couldn't imagine talking about my own personal problems on tv. yet some people go on these shows because they haven't been able to speak to each other for years, yet they can do it on national tv! i don't understand it. maybe they want someone else to pay for DNA results, but pity the poor child when it's grown up and seeing it's parents on tv discussing it's parentage. money must be an incentive, look at that programme 'Embarrassing illnesses' these are people who are 'too embarrassed' to go their own GP about some personal problem, yet they can show the whole country it?? i don't understand it.
 
Because many chavs see celeb culture as the highest to aim for in society. They see idiots taking their clothes off on reality TV or girls who have done nothing but sleep with a footballer make lots of money from interviews about him and get rich, so for an uneducated person with not many prospects going on the TV in the hope of becoming well known by other chavs is their dream.

I haven't watch those shows for years, but when I did, I thought they weren't very nice and civilised people.
 
I think that they feel they are right. and are trying to convince others to insure them that they are in the right and the other are wrong.
 
It's not quite as spontaneous as it seems.
They're given a pretty good idea of what to say and how to say it, well in advance.
Of course, they get well paid too, so it can't all be bad.
Nobody does anything for nothing in the medial !
 
Mornin', Sapphire - I've often wondered why also...especially when at least 40% of what's being said is 'beeped' out. Perhaps going to their G.P. (who will sort out a plan, and various visits to professionals who may be more experienced) would be a 'way to go' - so we tend to say nowadays! There are 'rewards' in such telly programmes; apparently you spend a night in a half-decent hotel up in Manchester, along with 'financial' award for turning up, for suffering boos, hisses and other lower-class yellings from the audience. Think of it as 'corrida inglesa', with the supposedly 'law-abiding' audience baying for blood and making Mr. Kyle/Ms. Goddard look shiny, professional and ultimately moralistic as they use socially illiterate beings as easy-peasy punch bags.
There always will be half a dozen questions on Y!A complaining about the conceit of such shows...but (damn) if they are so bad, what would be wrong in writing to the channels in question to mouth off?
 
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