Jeremy Kyle To Deputize For Piers Morgan On Talk TV’s ‘Uncensored’ Over The Summer

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Jeremy Kyle is to deputize for Piers Morgan on Morgan’s Talk TV show Uncensored over the summer. Kyle’s Talk Radio show is simulcast on Talk TV during the days and he also hosts opinion show The Talk with Sharon Osbourne, meaning his face will dominate much of the Rupert Murdoch-backed network’s summer coverage.

Kyle will take over from Morgan on flagship Uncensored for a five-week period up to September 5 while Morgan films a new series of his true crime documentary and “takes a well-earned vacation,” according to Talk TV.

Kyle is now a major presence on Talk TV, three years on from a Jeremy Kyle Show contestant committing suicide, leading to the cancellation of that show and an enormous reckoning regarding the British TV industry’s treatment of contestants and duty of care measures.  “I can imagine no finer broadcaster to keep my seat warm.

Well, I can, but they weren’t available. I’m sure he’ll do his best,” joked Morgan. Morgan’s show, which launched in April and airs at 9PM BST (1PM PT) in the UK and on Fox Nation in the U.S.