Jeremy Kyle defends ‘direct’ presenting style following death of chat show guest

Steve Dymond, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is believed to have taken his personal life seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Present in Could 2019.

Mr Kyle informed Winchester Coroner’s Court docket that clips from the programme that includes the case of Mr Dymond and his associate, Jane Callaghan, confirmed he had “de-escalated… calmed it down”.

He additionally denied encouraging the viewers to take in opposition to 63-year-old Mr Dymond, telling the inquest: “By no means – I requested them to provide them a spherical of applause.”

Mr Dymond had taken a lie detector take a look at for the programme after being accused of dishonest on Miss Callaghan, from Gosport, Hampshire.

The court docket was proven various clips from the present, together with Mr Kyle telling Mr Dymond: “Be a person, develop a pair of balls and inform her the goddam reality.”

One other featured the presenter asking “Has anybody bought a shovel?” as Mr Dymond tried to clarify why he had been messaging one other lady.

An additional clip confirmed Mr Kyle saying: “The studio thought you have been telling the reality, I wouldn’t belief you with a chocolate button, mate.”

The presenter defined that he felt he had a “double safety blanket” of the checks carried out by his manufacturing crew and a GP letter to reassure him that Mr Dymond had been an applicable visitor for the present.

Mr Kyle stated he had not been given any steering by the manufacturing or aftercare groups that he ought to “modify” his presenting model for Mr Dymond.

Rachel Spearing, counsel to the inquest, requested Mr Kyle on Thursday: “Do you imagine he was humiliated?”

The broadcaster replied: “I don’t, and I’ve learn over time apparently I known as him a traitor – I didn’t – that he was cowering. I did what I all the time do and all the time did, it was what the present… as I understood the present is, unhappy as it would sound, it was a typical half.”

He added: “It was a present with my title on it, with a manufacturing crew and an aftercare crew behind it.”

Defending his presenting model, Mr Kyle stated: “I believe that individuals who got here on the present… I believe the present had been on air for 15 years, and I imagine the strategy for battle decision was all the time the identical.

“Sure, it was direct, but it surely was empathetic, it was sincere.”

Referring to Mr Dymond’s case, Mr Kyle added: “I de-escalated, I calmed it down and I put them backstage.

“That’s what I all the time believed the present was about – battle decision.”

Maya Sikand KC, representing Mr Dymond’s household, requested Mr Kyle if he had been “belittling” over his dealing with of the visitor in the course of the recording.

She quoted Mr Kyle asking Mr Dymond: “Did it hassle you that she didn’t have an orgasm or are you a typical male and don’t give a toss.”

She stated he responds: “I can’t bear in mind when” with Mr Kyle persevering with: “You’re mendacity once more aren’t you? You may’t bear in mind when she did.”

Ms Sikand stated Mr Dymond then says: “I cross my coronary heart,” then Mr Kyle says: “Simply give me the outcomes.”

She requested Mr Kyle: “That is fairly belittling isn’t it?

He replied: “I wouldn’t agree with you, I’d say it’s the half, from the start I had a joke with him, he did get upset however he wasn’t upset from the start, that’s the journey and that’s the way in which the Jeremy Kyle present was.”

Mr Kyle informed the court docket he was “not concerned within the choice of company” for the present.

He stated: “I wish to make some extent: I’ve, in my 14-and-a-half years, not been concerned within the choice of company. I used to be employed completely because the presenter.”

He stated he was despatched a file the evening earlier than filming which detailed the roughly 20 company concerned in a day’s recording.

“I had no involvement within the technique of choice or something like that,” he stated.

He later added: “The manufacturing, the manufacturing, the aftercare, the lie detector take a look at weren’t my accountability, I used to be the presenter.”

The presenter stated he had created a persona for the present however had not been educated in dealing with emotional company.

He stated: “The present developed, it was a personality, a component, by understanding that, from day one, as I hold saying, it’s battle decision so it concerned many features of many tales and many alternative approaches.”

Mr Dymond had rung ITV 40 to 50 occasions in “determined” makes an attempt to turn into a visitor on the present, the inquest beforehand heard.

He had been identified with a depressive dysfunction in 1995 and had taken overdoses on 4 events – in January 1995, twice in December 2002 and in April 2005, the court docket was informed.

It additionally heard he had tried to hurt himself in December 2002.

On Thursday morning, Chris Wissun, director of content material compliance at ITV on the time, informed the inquest that the present had a “standing rule” to not enable company with “present melancholy” to take a lie detector take a look at and the aftercare crew “regularly assessed” their welfare.

The listening to was informed that after the filming of the present had completed, Mr Dymond had informed a researcher: “I want I used to be lifeless” and he had additionally stated: “Life is nothing with out Jane.”

Mr Wissun stated the aftercare crew provided Mr Dymond eight to 10 periods of cognitive behavioural remedy for self-worth and confidence constructing after the present to assist him deal with together with his “drawback with mendacity”.

He stated {that a} researcher known as Mr Dymond the day after the recording to inform him that counselling was being organized for him and added: “Sadly, due to Mr Dymond’s demise that didn’t go forward.”

Graham Stanier, the director of aftercare for the Jeremy Kyle Present between 2005 and 2019 and who was additionally the present’s on-air counsellor, stated in an announcement learn to the inquest that Mr Dymond was topic to “steady evaluation” following his acceptance to be on the present.

He stated this included background checks together with his work colleagues and Miss Callaghan and her daughter.

He stated he had solely stated “hi there” to Mr Dymond and was not concerned in his pre-show evaluation.

He stated: “So far as I can I recall no points have been flagged to me on the subject of Mr Dymond.”

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