A bouncer has revealed he used pepper spray on Jeremy Kyle outside a Magaluf nightclub because he believed the TV presenter was making the resort look bad.
The TV host was sprayed while he was filming the bars and nightclubs for a special series of his ITV talk show.
The series, which will air next year, includes one episode which focuses on the 'youth culture' in Magaluf.
But a 40-year-old Romanian nightclub bouncer called Leon took exception to Kyle's 'commercial rubbish' - and decided to take matters into his own hands.
The man last night revealed how he carried out the attack outside Bonkers Bar because Kyle was 'making Magaluf look s***' - when it is 'actually a nice place to live'.
Leon - who said he would happily spray Kyle again - told the Tab: 'He was walking down the strip with camera making it look sh*t. He wasn't showing the good side of Magaluf.
'I don't like that sort of publicity - it's not good. It's been happening for a while now and it's definitely not the way to promote a place. He ran away behind the corner.
'I don't like the way he portrays the place. We're like family here - we clean everything and keep it that way.
'It's actually a nice place to live which is why you find lots of families here with their kids being raised here.'
One witness said: 'Kyle was on the island filming God knows what. Suddenly outside of the window of my DJ booth I see a mass crowd and chanting going up the street.
'I look outside, and there's a camera with a light facing someone and I realise its Jeremy Kyle.
'He's being mobbed, then suddenly everyone disperses and I see people running away towards me and in all directions crying and coughing and saying it was tear gas. Then when I clarified with Leon, he said it was pepper spray.'
The incident was also witnessed by Scarlett Moffatt, star of TV show Gogglebox, who was visiting the resort.
She wrote in the Daily Star: 'It was clear to all that [Kyle] wasn't making a show to promote "Maga" and wanted to dish the dirt in the name of shock entertainment where his viewers can judge what they don't understand.
'It ended with Jezza being pepper-sprayed by the bouncer and the poor fella was as confused as one of his show guests getting a full-house on the lie detector machine.'
A spokesman for Jeremy Kyle last night played down the incident, claiming the TV presenter was not the main target of the pepper-spray.
The spokesman said: 'Jeremy was walking around the strip with his film crew on Friday night when someone in the busy crowd sprayed the spray above their heads.
'They decided to vacate the area to be on the safe side, as the spray was starting to have an affect on the eyes.
'Jeremy wasn't trying to get into the nightclub and wasn't refused entry by a bouncer.
'He is filming in Magaluf for an upcoming series which is expected to run next year and one episode will focus on the youth culture in the area.'
The resort's reputation has sunk even lower this summer, after video footage emerged of a girl performing sex acts on 24 men for a free drink.
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