Jeremy Kyle shows Reform's in his DNA

Jeremy Kyle has been relatively quiet since his late, unlamented ITV show was cancelled in 2019, presenting on Rupert Murdoch’s little-watched online-only station Talk.

Now the presenter – whose ITV bear-baiting show was cancelled when a guest subsequently took his own life – has a new gig: speaking at Reform’s annual conference in Birmingham next weekend.

The party has announced Kyle’s involvement via a video on, inevitably, its X account. “I’m delighted to be involved in this conference, ‘cause I think it’ll be great fun,” says Kyle, as if it’s a reality TV show. “I wanna meet as many people as possible, I wanna put as many questions as I can to the main protagonists, put a smile back on the face of politics, ‘cause it’s a bit bloody miserable, isn’t it, to be honest?”.

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Kyle’s involvement was also hailed by Reform leader Nigel Farage, who was so excited he failed to use a spellcheck, writing on X how he would be joining the line-up “for our party confernce [sic] in 2 weeks”.

Kyle, who just this week stormed off a Talk TV set in disgust at the news Portsmouth Council was handing out £200,000 beach huts to migrants (something which isn’t happening) as well as offering “hypotherapy” (which isn’t a word) for their stress, is just the latest to join the Reform/Talk/GB News ecosystem. Talk’s Alex Phillips and Isabel Oakeshott are both allied with the party, while Farage, chief whip Lee Anderson and ideologue Matt Goodwin all have presenting gigs with Paul Marshall’s channel.

Still, perhaps Kyle might serve a purpose – could he perform a DNA test to find out just how close Reform is to the BNP?