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Privacy NoticeJeremy Kyle has arrived at court ahead of giving evidence at an inquest into the death of a man who had appeared on his ITV chat show. The 59-year-old was called to Winchester Coroner’s Court for the hearing over the death of Steve Dymond, from Portsmouth, who is believed to have taken his own life seven days after filming for The Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019. Mr Dymond – who was 63 at the time – had taken part in the popular lie detector feature on the programme after he had been accused of cheating on his partner, Jane Callaghan. His appearance on the show revealed that he had failed the test. Following his death, the episode was never aired, and the series was later cancelled.
Jeremy braved the photographers and the rain as he arrived at court
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The court heard that Mr Dymond died at his home from a combination of morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy in his heart. The inquest previously heard that Mr Dymond had rung ITV 40 to 50 times in “desperate” attempts to become a guest on the show. Chris Wissun, director of content compliance at ITV at the time, previously told the hearing that Mr Dymond’s first application to the show had been turned down because he had revealed that he had been diagnosed with depression and prescribed anti-depressants. However, a subsequent letter from Mr Dymond’s GP supporting a second application, plus a one-to-one assessment by the show itself, then saw Mr Dymond appear on the show’s lie detector feature in 2019. Mr Wissun explained that the lie detector segment “was a very well-established editorial feature of the programme,” revealing that the moment the results were announced brought an “element of drama” to the show. The court was shown video clips of Mr Dymond being advised about the processes of the lie detector test. Mr Wissun told the inquest he was informed that Jeremy Kyle was “very receptive” to advice from the aftercare team about whether he needed to adapt or soften his presenting style for particular guests. He explained that it was a “very important” part of guest welfare processes that guests were giving “informed consent” to take part and that they “understood the nature of the format and also the style of the presenter”. Sign up to OK!’s daily newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free
Steve Dymond died less than a week after failing a lie detector test on the programme.
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Earlier in the week, the court heard that Mr Dymond had been diagnosed with a depressive disorder in 1995 and taken overdoses on four previous occasions. He also made another apparent suicide attempt in 2002 and was sectioned in September 2005 when a mental health assessment then found he was at “risk of suicide”, the court was also told. The inquest also heard a witness statement by Mr Dymond’s son, Carl Woolley, revealing that his dad claimed he felt like “he was thrown under a bus” by events on the show and that Jeremy had ‘egged on’ the audience to boo him. The hearing is scheduled to continue until 10 September.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterMore OnJeremy KyleThe Jeremy Kyle ShowChat Show
