Jeremy Kyle guest ‘was crying throughout’ the show and ‘collapsed’ in anguish when he failed lie detector
Steve Dymond, 63, was found dead days after the recording
A TRAGIC Jeremy Kyle guest who died days after appearing on the show cried throughout the recording before collapsing, it was revealed last night.
Steve Dymond failed a lie detector test on the show as he desperately tried to defend accusations that he cheated on his fiancée.
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An audience member has told how Steve, 63, "collapsed" in agony as the test results claimed he was lying.
Babette Lucas-Marriott, was an audience member during Steve Dymond’s Jeremy Kyle recording.
The student told the BBC: “Everyone felt the mood change, he was crying from the very beginning and he was so convinced that he would pass this test and that everything would be fine.
“Jeremy brought out the lie detector test and he asked the audience, ‘Who thinks he’s going to pass?’
He absolutely just couldn’t believe what he had heard and, y’know, he was begging his fiancée for forgiveness
Babette Lucas-Marriott
“99 per cent of the audience put their hand up, including myself, and then he said he’d failed.
“And you just saw him collapse to the ground.
"He absolutely just couldn’t believe what he had heard and, y’know, he was begging his fiancée for forgiveness.”
The Sun revealed on Tuesday that Steve and partner Jane Callaghan split after he failed the test.
Pals fear Steve, of Portsmouth, took his own life.
The father-of-one was found dead by his landlady ten days after his segment was filmed on Thursday, May 2.
He is thought to have died of an overdose of morphine prescribed for his painful arthritis.
I can’t live without you. I just wanted to come and see you
Tragic last texts to Steve's fiancée
Just before his death Steve texted Jane to say he could not face life without her.
In desperate messages he wrote: "I can’t live without you. I just wanted to come and see you.
"I just wanted to say sorry before I go. My life is not worth living without you."
The Jeremy Kyle Show is now off air indefinitely over claims the programme may have failed in its aftercare.
Kyle, 53, yesterday broke cover for the first time since news of Steve's tragic death emerged this week.
His show is ITV's most popular daytime programme and has been running for 14 years.
But a source told The Sun: “Jeremy and those on the show are worried that this could be the nail in the coffin.
“There’s been a groundswell of criticism since the news broke of Steve’s death, and there’s a feeling from people who work on the show that top bosses might decide to use the incident as a reason to change things around.”
Insiders say new ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall, 57, has never been a fan of the abrasive show — which she believes clashes with the rest of the network’s daytime schedule.
She has put Julian Bellamy — the managing director of ITV Studios, who make the show — in charge of the review of the tragedy.
ITV sources say The Jeremy Kyle Show will not return this week as the production crew were told to down tools.
It could be off screen for longer as it works a week in advance.
Steve's heartbroken former partner Jane said they split after Jeremy revealed to the audience Steve had failed a lie test.
She praised Kyle’s team for their aftercare efforts adding that show reps repeatedly attempted to contact Steve following his appearance.
An inquest will be held.
Jane has received notification that she is due to receive a parcel — and believes it may have been sent by Steve and could contain clues to what happened.
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