JEREMY Kyle has been left red-faced after falling over while making his huge comeback to ITV.
The talk show host, 59, was stepping onto the stage for Kate Garraway‘s Life Stories when he tripped up and fell onto his knees.
Although Jeremy filmed a second take for the opening of the chat show, his dramatic fall in front of the live studio audience was still aired.
Minutes after the ITV programme had started, Kate said: “There’s a lot about you that people don’t know.”
Jeremy replied: “Clumsy, idiotic… um… OCD. Let’s just nail this, shall we?
“Why don’t you just tell them?
“I tried to walk on at the beginning of the show and just fell on on my face.”
Kate said: “Your first steps back in the ITV studios!”
The first take then aired and it showed Jeremy walking up to greet Kate on the small stage before he spectacularly tripped on a step.
Kate burst into laughter and clapped as the audience cheered.
Jeremy told Kate: “Five years of practicing and I can’t even step up one step!”
Telly star Jeremy’s interview with Kate for Life Stories was the first time he had appeared on ITV in five years.
His hit ITV morning series The Jeremy Kyle Show was suddenly pulled off air in May 2019, following the suicide of a guest who filmed an episode of the show a week before his death.
Jeremy reflected on the show’s cancellation as he opened up about his life and career as Kate’s first guest on the latest run of her interview series.
“I understand entirely that the Kyle Show had to fall on its sword as a result of that,” he told Kate.
“You can be the king of the castle one day and the next day not allowed in the castle grounds.”
Looking back, Jeremy admitted that his show – which ran for 3,320 episodes across 17 series – would never be commissioned today.
“We launched in 2005, that was just before the advent of social media and I think that changed everything,” he said.
“And people… Would they watch it because it would help them? They’d feel better about their own lives?
“Many people were invested in it. The world has changed dramatically – you can’t say boo to a goose now, can you?
“But I’m immensely proud of those numbers of episodes, taking it to America and the people that we genuinely helped.”
Jeremy also opened up to Kate about his rise to fame and his previous battle with testicular cancer.
