The anguish Steve Dymond had after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show was made clear during an inquest into his death. Dymond passed away seven days after the show. Following his participation in a lie detector test on the show and his subsequent accusations of cheating on his ex-fiance, Jane Callaghan, Dymond, 63, was discovered dead at his Portsmouth, Hampshire, home in May 2019. Nothing ever came of the episode.
Carl Woolley, Dymond’s son, testified at the Winchester Coroner’s Court inquest that his father felt “thrown under a bus” and “cast as a liar” by the show. Woolley claims that following the recording, his father became very agitated and told him that host Jeremy Kyle had “egged on” the audience to jeer at him.
“My father was crying as he told me he had been on The Jeremy Kyle Show and that he had been deemed a liar right from the start,” Woolley added. “He said he had been ‘taken for a mug’ and ‘pounced on’ by the presenter.”
Woolley also talked about how his father called him up to six times a day in the days that followed the broadcast, a sign of his struggles. Even after obtaining some assistance from the show’s aftercare staff, Dymond persisted in voicing his displeasure with the way he was handled on the show.
Dymond’s brother, Leslie, painted a pen portrait of the man that was read aloud in court, calling him a “brave” guy who had been a devoted member of the RNLI crew, participating in hazardous sea rescues. Leslie also described how Steve was negatively treated by the host and viewers of the show, in addition to being profoundly impacted by the lie detector results, which he thought were unreliable.
More information regarding the events that led to Dymond’s untimely death is anticipated to surface during the upcoming inquest.
