THE Jeremy Kyle Show team have said they were “shocked and saddened” by the death of a guest in a statement defending the way their looked after the members of the public who appeared.
Steve Dymond, 63, took a lie-detector test on the ITV show to convince fiancée Jane Callaghan he had not been unfaithful – but they split after he failed.
Just before his death Steve texted Jane to say he could not face life without her, writing: “I can’t live without you.”
In a long statement today, the show told Metro that the Jeremy Kyle Show had “duty of care processes” that saw contributors looked after “pre, during and post” appearing on the daytime programme.
They said: “Prior to the show a comprehensive assessment is carried out by the guest welfare team on all potential contributors.
“The guest welfare team consists of four members of staff, one consultant psychotherapist and three mental health nurses.
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The statement continued: “Guests are interviewed by guest welfare face to face at studios and prior to filming.
“Throughout filming the participants are supported by the guest welfare team in the studios during the recording phase of their show.
“After filming has ended all guests are seen by a member of the guest welfare team to ensure they are feeling calm and emotionally settled before any participant leaves to travel home.”
They added: “The day after recording of the show the participant will be contacted by production to carry out a welfare check and provide details of the services that have been sourced for them.
“The production team keep in touch with the participants in the days between recording and transmission and participants are given a production mobile contact number should they need to contact the show at any point following transmission.”
The statement concluded: “As we have said, everyone at ITV and The Jeremy Kyle Show is shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a participant in the show a week after the recording of the episode they featured in and our thoughts are with their family and friends.
“We will not screen the episode in which they featured.
“Given the seriousness of this event, ITV has also decided to suspend both filming and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle Show with immediate effect in order to give it time to conduct a review of this episode of the show, and we cannot comment further until this review is completed.”
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