Coronation Street family in Jeremy Kyle showdown

Like the participants who battle out their personal problems in front of a studio audience, Jeremy Kyle's controversial and confrontational TV talk show has been called many names - "cruel", "exploitative", "human bear-baiting" - but 'postmodern' is not usually one of them.

That is set to change with the 1,000th edition of the ITV show, which will see three Coronation Street actors go head to head as their characters in a spot of improvisational family drama.

Coronation Street's current love triangle storyline between David Platt (Jack P Shepherd), his older brother Nick (Ben Price) and Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) is to be played out as a slanging match on Kyle's sofa on tomorrow's show.

In keeping with a typical Jeremy Kyle episode, David will demand a lie detector to see if his ex-girlfriend Tina has been sleeping with his brother Nick.

Meanwhile David's former Young Offenders Institution cellmate Graeme Proctor (Craig Gazey) will sit in the audience jeering and hurling insults.

The Platt brothers are members of one of Coronation Street's most dysfunctional families. The actors said they did not rehearse the one-off show before filming began. "We're going to do it exactly how people do it [on the show]," said Craig Gazey. "My character is quite funny and may come out with silly things but we're not doing it for a laugh. We want it to be as if the characters were on Jeremy Kyle."

Next year Kyle hopes to make his mark in the United States with an American version of his show. He will fly to Los Angeles later this year to record the episodes.

The Jeremy Kyle Show, which first aired on ITV in 2005, was criticised by a judge last year for containing an "element of cruelty and exploitation" when one participant attacked his girlfriend after they appeared on the show.

Meanwhile in 2007 a Manchester district judge called the programme "a form of human bear-baiting" while sentencing one of the show's guests. He had headbutted his love rival during filming. ·