ITV paid Jeremy Kyle ‘well over £1,000,000’ after his show was axed following Steve Dymond’s suicide

Jeremy Kyle acquired a big payout after his present was axed in 2019 (Image: ITV)

The controversial daytime present was taken off air after Steve Dymond took his personal life after showing on the present.

Dymond died by suicide shortly after failing a notoriously unreliable lie-detector to show whether or not he had cheated on his accomplice. 

In line with The Each day Mail, Kyle was paid ‘an enormous amount of cash’ when his present was axed.

A supply instructed The Mail: ‘ITV needed to pay him.

‘The contract was watertight and there was nothing which could possibly be achieved about it.

‘It was an enormous amount of cash.’

The Jeremy Kyle Present ran from 2005 to 2019 (Image: WireImage)

The supply additionally advised that the payout was ‘nicely over £1million’ as a result of Kyle nonetheless had most of a 12 months left on his £2million annual contract with ITV when the choice was made to cease the present.

The final episode premiered on Could 10, 2019, and attentive followers realised that every one 17 sequence had been faraway from ITV Hub, with particulars revealing seem on the programme popping up as an alternative.

Dymond’s episode by no means aired on ITV.

The supply mentioned Kyle was paid ‘nicely over £1million’ (Image: REX)

The harrowing Channel 4 documentary Dying on Daytime explores the scandal that occurred behind the scenes of the favored chat present – which ran from 2005 to 2019 – with former workers claiming bosses had been abusive and manipulative.

One producer mentioned they had been ‘handled like rats in a lab’, whereas one other alleged: ‘Let’s say you had been working and it’s like 10 o clock at evening and also you’ve acquired nothing in your board, it doesn’t matter should you’ve not had a break, as a result of they must order your tea from one of many eating places close by. 

‘When you mentioned can now we have tea we’re ravenous, the producer would say, no.’

The present was axed after Dymond’s dying (Image: Rex)

In response to the Channel 4 documentary, ITV mentioned it doesn't ‘settle for the central allegation of this programme of a ‘unhealthy tradition’ inside the manufacturing crew’. 

‘ITV would by no means condone any of its manufacturing workers deceptive or mendacity to visitors.’

Breaking his silence on the documentary, Kyle spoke on his TalkRadio present: ‘I've mentioned that I cannot touch upon the tragic dying of Steve Dymond till the authorized course of is completed, and that could be a place that I'll preserve.’

He added: ‘When, and belief me there will likely be a time after the inquest, when it's correct for me to have my say, as a result of there are two sides to each story. I'll do it right here, and I'll do it to you, and that's the most necessary factor.’

ITV declined to remark.