An ITV executive claimed the Jeremy Kyle Show was "highly regulated" with "fully consenting" adults participating. TV boss Dame Carolyn McCall defended the long-running reality series which ITV immediately pulled off air and later cancelled following guest Steve Dymond's death.
Dymond, 63, was found dead at his home in the city on May 9 last year after taking a lie-detector test on The Jeremy Kyle Show.
But ITV's Ms McCall said she was swamped with hundreds of emails complaining about The Jeremy Kyle Show being axed. She said at the Future of Public Service Broadcasting inquiry from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee: "It was a highly regulated show, it was a conflict resolution show, it was not to everyone's tastes. "It
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