Steve Dymond’s question: Uncensored clip from The Jeremy Kyle Show released for the first time – when the speaker defends himself
Jeremy Kyle has defended his talk show and his presenting style during an inquest into the death of a man who appeared on the show.
It came as the jury was also shown clips of the unaired program for the first time.
Steve Dymondaged 63, was found dead at her home in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in May 2019, seven days after taking part in the programme.
The doctor found that he died of a combination of morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy in his heart.
Mr Dymond had taken a lie detector test for the ITV show after being accused of cheating on his ex-partner Jane Callaghan. After his death, the episode was not aired, and the series was later cancelled.
Kyle arrived on the third day of the inquest at Winchester Coroner’s Court accompanied by his lawyer, his agent and several others, dressed in a dark blue suit, white shirt and light blue tie. Then he sat carefully until he was called to testify.
The 59-year-old broadcaster stood by the show’s format, saying the stories presented were a “journey” with “conflict” and “resolution,” and defended his presentation style, saying it was “straightforward.” , but it was obedience, it was faithful”.
The jury was shown clips of the unaired incident, with one showing Kyle to Mr Dymond: “The truth of the matter is you, mate, you’ve made up lies, you can sit there looking confused, people can look at this and think it’s amazing.”
After revealing the results of the lie test, Kyle said: “The test says you’re lying, mate, you failed every question.”
The clip showed Ms Callaghan crying as the audience cheered and Mr Dymond looked shocked as he said: “I was not, I have never been unfaithful.”
Kyle responded to the photo: “The studio thought you were telling the truth, I wouldn’t trust you with a chocolate button mate.”
Kyle: ‘Grow a pair of balls and tell the truth’
Another clip showed Kyle telling Mr Dymond: “Be a man, grow some balls and tell him the goddamn truth.”
When one brought up the speaker asked, “anyone have a shovel?” when Mr. Dymond tried to explain why he was texting the other woman.
Kyle refused to encourage the audience to turn on Mr Dymond, telling the inquest: “Not at all – I asked them to give them a round of applause.” He said the footage showed he had “de-escalated” and “calmed down” the situation rather than inflaming it.
Asked by his barrister Nick Sheldon KC whether he “encouraged the audience to praise” Mr Dymond, “hit him”, “taunted him”, “got in his face” or call him a “traitor” or a “failure”. “, Kyle said: “No, not at all”.
He went on to tell the jury that he believed the show had taken “the right approach”, and had “always believed that stories are a journey.”
He said you could see the journey “completely” in Mr Dymond’s case, including where he and his partner “face the truth”. He said: “It’s a conflict, it’s a solution.”
He also clarified that he was “not involved in the selection of guests” on his TV show, and was “fully employed as a speaker,” nothing more.
Kyle later added: “Presentation, presentation, background check, lie-check was not my responsibility, I was the speaker,” he went on to explain that although he had created a persona for the show, he had never been there. trained in handling emotional guests.
Asked by Rachel Spearing, the inquiry’s counsel, whether he believed Mr Dymond had been humiliated on the show, Kyle replied: “I don’t know”.
Maya Sikand KC, an attorney representing Steve Dymond’s family, stated that Kyle said some of the things he said to Mr. Dymond during the show were so “demeaning,” that he responded ” I will not agree”. He said that even though Mr. Dymond got angry during the filming, “he wasn’t angry from the beginning, it’s a journey and that’s what the Jeremy Kyle Show was like.”
The Jeremy Kyle Show first aired in 2005 and ran for 17 series before being canceled on 10 May 2019, the day after Mr Dymond’s death.
It was ITV’s most popular daytime programme.
ITV stood by Kyle at the time, with director of television broadcasting Kevin Lygo confirming this was the case trying out a new show with him later that year, though not at the same time of 9.30am.
How to check lie
Ahead of Kyle’s testimony on Thursday morning, the inquest was told that after the film ended, Mr Dymond told an inquest: “I wish I was dead.”
Mr Dymond had called ITV 40 to 50 times in “desperate” attempts to be a guest on the show, it was previously revealed.
Video clips from the unaired session were played in court, showing Mr Dymond being advised of the lie detector test procedure.
In the video, Mr Dymond asked the polygraph examiner, who was contracted by ITV to carry out the procedure, whether the test was “99.9% accurate”, to which the examiner responded: ” They are 95% accurate” with a “narrow margin of error”.
The examiner also advised Mr Dymond that “if you fail one question, you fail a lot”.
The clips also show Mr Dymond watching a video introducing him to the test which advises the participant to “be honest, open and honest”.
The detector results added an ‘element of drama’
Speaking in the witness box on the second and third day of the inquest, Chris Wissun, director of news management at ITV at the time Mr Dymond appeared on the ITV programme, explained that the lie detector test was “a feature very well established of the program”.
He said that Kyle would not have been informed of the result of the lie ahead of time but would receive the result in real time during the filming.
Mr Wissun said: “He would open the envelope and reveal the results and tell the guests what the results were. There was an element of drama in that moment.”
Price heard that the aftercare team offered Mr. Dymond eight to 10 sessions of self-confidence and self-esteem-building therapy after the program to help him work through the “problem his to lie”. The consultation did not proceed due to his death.
Qualified mental health nurse Steph MacDonald, who was part of the aftercare team, also gave evidence.
Ms Callaghan and Mr Dymond’s son, Carl Woolley, entered the witness box at first day of investigation.
Mr Dymond was diagnosed with depression in 1995 and has taken drugs on four previous occasions – in January 1995, twice in December 2002, and in April 2005 – the hearing was told on Wednesday.
The court heard that he made another apparent attempt to take his own life in 2002.
He was separated in September 2005, and a mental health assessment found him to be “suicidal”.
Mr. Dymond’s death has added to the growing scrutiny of the duty of care that television shows must have for participants, coming after the deaths of the first two. Love Island contestants, Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
The case is ongoing.
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