Jeremy Kyle egged on audience to boo TV show guest, inquest told

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An inquest into the death of TV show guest Steve Dymond at Winchester Coroner’s Court has heard that host Jeremy Kyle egged on the audience to “boo him.” His son told an inquest into his death that his father was “very upset” after the recording of The Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019.

Steve, who was from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming the show. During the episode, he had taken a lie detector test after being accused of cheating on his ex-fiancee, Jane Callaghan.The inquest was told that Steve died at his home in Portsmouth of a combination of a morphine overdose and left ventricular hypertrophy of his heart.

His son, Carl Woolley, told the inquest that on the day his father recorded the Jeremy Kyle Show, he received a call from his uncle, Leslie Dymond, who told him his father was “very down.” Carl then phoned his father who told him about his experience on the show, including that Jeremy Kyle had “egged on” the audience to boo him.

He told the inquest that his father told him the “lie detector had cast him as a liar, he said to me he wasn’t lying. He was telling the truth, he was not lying… and asking why it said he had lied.” He said Steve was “very upset, saying he was being called a liar, everyone had jumped on him, [he was] not with it at all.” Counsel to the inquest Rachel Spearing asked who had “jumped on him” and Carl replied: “Jeremy Kyle had got the crowd to egg him on, to boo at him and stuff, he was cast as the liar before he had even spoken.” He added that Steve had continued to be “very upset” and would call his son up to six times a day following the recording.