No, an audience member wasn't caught doing coke on The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Photoshop disaster should have been obvious
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Your support makes all the difference.A photo is being widely shared this week purportedly showing a man racking up lines of a white powder in the audience of a TV show.
It has been suggested the stills are from The Jeremy Kyle Show, known for its drug abuse and general 'what is my life' themes.
The rumour's being propagated by the ever popular UniLad, and others on Twitter:
You think you've seen it all, until you see a man doing this in the Jeremy Kyle audience...
Posted by UNILAD on Wednesday, May 13, 2015
The stills actually seem to originate from Spanish-language TV however.
Moreover, the poor guy pictured and now being sent around the internet was probably just wiping his nose, with everyone missing the obvious fact that all five of his fingers are in front of the credit card.
So no, sadly there wasn't a TV network dumb enough to leave this moment in their broadcast, let alone ITV.
But stranger things have happened, in 2013 a Turkish station managed to air half a scene without the green screen edited out:
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