Reaction to Jeremy Kyle Show cancellation: Collins calls for ‘proper review’

However, TV critic Emma Bullimore said she did not think this would be the end of Kyle’s television career – or of this genre of television. ITV has said it will still work with the host, who also fronts The Kyle Files.

“I don’t think this is the end of this kind of television,” she said. “The voices we’re hearing are the people who have always disliked the Jeremy Kyle show, always found it exploitative, and are saying, ‘We told you something like this was going to happen.’

“There’s no getting away from the fact that whether you like it or you find it reprehensible, there is a loyal audience for this show.”

Journalist and writer Owen Jones welcomed the decision to axe Kyle’s show.

“Jeremy Kyle consisted of putting vulnerable people from disadvantaged backgrounds in stocks to have eggs thrown at them; it fuelled an agenda of demonising poorer people which helped legitimise cuts to the welfare state,” he tweeted. “Good riddance.”

Yet Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan defended the controversial host.

“As everyone piles on Jeremy Kyle, I’d like to say he’s a great guy, an excellent broadcaster, and hugely popular with the vast majority of people who watched & appeared (voluntarily) on his top-rated show,” he tweeted. “So much snobbery & hypocrisy being spewed by his critics.”