It was the worst debut since Jonathan Woodgate at Madrid.
Replacing Piers Morgan, and being measurably more likeable than Piers Morgan, is a task that many people would find very achievable.
Easy, perhaps, as all that is required is to sit there and not radiate toxic smugness, not interrupt everyone, not hold your nose aloft and fling it about from corner to corner like a wind vane in a hurricane, and most importantly, above all else, not be Piers Morgan.
Do you have the exact same DNA as Piers Morgan? No? Well then, congratulations, you too could quite comfortably replace him as the host of Good Morning Britain. Again, congratulations.
Somehow – and I’m not really sure how – Jeremy Kyle managed to leave viewers aching for the return of the former Daily Mirror editor after being even more obnoxious and arrogant, and yes, let me double check this, yes, even more shout-y.
What Jeremy Kyle did, in essence, is act exactly like Jeremy Kyle on a programme not in fact entitled The Jeremy Kyle Show.
Nobody saw it coming.
Viewers of the ITV breakfast show took to Twitter to vent their frustrations after the angry TV provocateur was a bit too much to handle whilst they were trying to eat their cereal.
Whereas Morgan only previously made them feel like gagging a bit in-between huge spoonfuls of Cheerios, Kyle managed to make them want to tip the entire bowl over their head, phone in sick, and hibernate until the Summer.
Piers, to everyone’s disappointment, is away filming a new crime series in America.
Why is #jeremykyle so angry. His interviewing skills are terrible. Somone tell him he is not on his show where he can speak in that way to guests….#youarenopiersmorgan
— Polly Todd💙 (@Toddpodd) February 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/cjdec/status/962942453337731072
Ewww #jeremykyle hosting #GMB I’m turning off & going to the dark side @BBCOne until #PiersMorgan is back @piersmorgan 😁
— NS (@NadiaSouth1969) February 12, 2018
@itvjeremykyle get Kyle off. So unprofessional, so rude interupting and pulling faces about people he's interviewing. It is GMB and not Jeremy Kyle show
— Stacey'sMum (@sarahjpill) February 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/noonoox77/status/962985298169876480
Crickey it like the @JeremyKyle_itv_ show. Don't know if I can stand all this all this arguing in the mornings 😣
— yarndog (@sewnsew11) January 30, 2018
If I wanted to watch Jeremy Kyle I would ! This is not nice Tv all that arguing urgh @piersmorgan #GMB
— alicia (@queenofwands89) January 23, 2018
