The Jeremy Kyle Show featured guests in all sorts of dilemmas, from cheating spouses and paternity tests to the infamous lie detector and the nail-biting wait for results that followed.
But it was cancelled after the death of a man who had appeared on the show in the past.
The host, Jeremy Kyle himself, recently returned to the media.
Jeremy grew up in Reading and had a happy childhood, with his parents having a strong marriage.
His dad worked as the accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years.
Anxiety battles
Kyle, 56, told the Sun he was unable to leave the house and, when things got “really bad”, went to see a doctor who diagnosed him with an anxiety disorder.
He said he was unable to defend himself in the aftermath of Steve Dymond’s death, and was unfairly blamed personally for the “terrible tragedy”.
He added: “Critics will say I got a taste of my own medicine but I’d been through a fair amount up until that point – and I guess it all caught up with me at once.”
"The death did hit me hard. And it’s been awful to feel so scapegoated, and without being able to have my say about the accusations that often seemed to be levelled only at me. I’ve felt hunted and made out to be responsible for everything that ever took place around that show. But I was just the face of it.
"A hundred people lost their jobs that day, and I felt truly awful for them too and worried for their futures. But I felt completely alone."
New radio show
After The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled, Kyle went silent for a while.
He had been planning to write and produce a show to replace the controversial chat show, but those plans were shelved.
Another couple of ideas came before Jeremy returned to his broadcasting career in September.
His Drivetime show on talkRADIO airs between Monday and Thursday.
New bride
He met his first wife, Kirsty Rowley, in 1988 before he was famous and working as an accountant.
Their daughter, Harriet, now 31, was born in June 1990, but the marriage broke down just a year later.
Kirsty later claimed that Jeremy had taken money from her bank account to fund his gambling addiction.
Jeremy said his struggles began as his first marriage was "crumbling" around him.
The turning point came when he found himself £12,000 in debt.
Thankfully, he managed to overcome the battle with addiction.
He is now married to his third wife, former nanny Vicky Burton.
They had had to postpone their nuptials six times.
