From a producer of the show:
Guests are wound up like a coiled spring before the show. It is an integral part of preparations - a process, sanctioned by the show's editors, called "talking up". It starts hours before the recording of each show, with researchers and producers flitting from guest to guest, talking about the first few points they will say on air. Normally our advice would be stirring, along the lines of "go out there, stand right in his face and point at him so he listens!" Contributors are advised to shout five main points, written by the production team, to support the story of the show. They are encouraged to stand over their opponent, to make their points more effectively.

To make things even more heightened, guests are kept apart before the show. They have separate hotels, separate green rooms, and the production team take advantage of that distance, and the guest's nervous confusion - many had never been on a talk show before - by playing a machiavellian game of "he said, she said" to ensure that feelings run high. For instance, I might tell a guest about another: "You will never believe what he is planning to say about you!"

The coaching continues right up to the moment a guest walks on stage. My fellow producers and I would sit with the guests, whispering urgent instructions until the moment Kyle introduces them. This is the moment of confrontation - the "money shot". It is also the first time the guests see their hated enemy.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:01, 2 replies, latest was 9 years ago)

OMG Reality TV isn't real????
Say it's not so!
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:06, Reply)

for realz!!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:08, Reply)

Bananaman was real, right?

( Muns, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:11, Reply)

In the sense he was Eric Wimp, yes.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:15, Reply)

who knows, now?
All my illusions are shattered, I've been a fool.

Next he'll tell us that Eastenders ent a documentary......then the whole house of cards will come crashing down....WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!111!!1
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:15, Reply)

House of Cards ent a documentary, Lokesy.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:16, Reply)

Whaaaaaaaaattt???
*goes for a lie down*
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:23, Reply)

Woh', doesn't suprise me yet does suprise me at the same time.
I would quite like to see a Dispatchers type show based on JK
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Feb 2015, 13:17, Reply)