There’s a grim pleasure to be had when someone gets a taste of their own medicine. Jeremy Kyle makes a living from exploiting those with troubled lives and now, it seems that everyone is going after a piece of him… and to be honest, it’s hard to be sympathetic. The circus surrounding Kyle now is the allegation that the talk-show host had a fling with a 16-year-old girl accoridng to Digital Spy.

Kyle’s solicitor has denied the claims made by a friend of the schoolgirl, Becky Hayes, who is now a local radio DJ. The unnamed friend told The News of the World that Kyle struck up the relationship when Hayes was on work experience with him at Birmingham radio station BRMB. It seems trouble is going to dog the ‘human bear bater‘ for a while yet…

Hayes allegedly told the source: “Jeremy was in a position of trust but totally abused it. He took advantage of me. He was 35 at the time and I was busy at school studying for my GCSEs. He just cashed in on the fact I was so star-struck. He told me he could get me into radio and I thought he was amazing. I was in awe. But he only wanted me for one thing – and that was sex. What he did was wrong, very wrong.”

For fear of turning into a gossip monger, Kyle is alleged to have flirted with the girl by phone, kissed her and groped her. In a statement to the paper, Kyle’s solicitor denied the claims: “We are instructed that our client’s sole contacts with Ms Hayes occurred more than six years ago, and were by telephone only. Our client never met Ms Hayes and only spoke to her on the telephone during a period of months before he was married to his wife.”

As trashy as this talk is, it does bring up an important point. This proves that, if you make a living from being an odious swine on the box, then it’s not hard to imagine that people will come after you with tales of your personal life. It’s hard to preach if you are coming from a less than savoury background. Of course, these claims have not been proven yet, but Kyle’s representatives will be undoubtedly hoping that his history is a largely clean one.