whether racing does indeed need a televisual transformation,then who better to front some primetime equine bear-baiting?News that main misery profiteer Jeremy Kyle is being considered as the unique face of racing is arguably the most ITV thing ever to happen including Celebrity Love Island and the great phoneline heist.
As from next year ITV has the terrestrial rights to racing. (My apologies for the contraction: I can only relate you my grandmother was appalled by any mention of “horse racing”, insisting that “the horse is assumed”.) At present the network will say only that it is leaving the decision on who will front its coverage until after football’s European Championship this summer, or but there is already much to admire in the fact that Kyle is second favourite,and not priced alongside Shergar, Incitatus and the mastermind of the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
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Source: theguardian.com