Production has been suspended on ITV's tabloid confrontational talk show, The Jeremy Kyle Show, that has been removed from the broadcast schedule in the United Kingdom after the death last week of a participant in an upcoming episode that won't be televised.
The Jeremy Kyle Show, similar to Jerry Springer, was broadcast for a number of years on ITV's international channel, ITV Choice (DStv 123) and shows guest discussing and fighting over personal conflicts and relationship problems in front of a studio audience.
Guests take paternity tests, drug addiction and conflict are often featured, security guards are on-set to separate participants who start physical fights and topics range from "My boyfriend’s mum has chosen a paedophile over him!" to “Did my dad have sex on my mum’s grave?”
"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. ITV will not screen the episode in which they featured," ITV said in a statement on Monday.
"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."
British media reports that Steve Dymond (63) committed suicide. He took a lie-detector test in the episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show to convince his fiancee Jane Callaghan he had not cheated but they split after he failed the test.
