They would ruthlessly break them, tick a box & send them on their way

A TV producer hired to film behind the scenes at The Jeremy Kyle Show says he was “horrified” by the level of aftercare given to guests whose lives had just been shattered.

Gavin Hill claims the ITV show’s team “ruthlessly broke” people who went on the programme then tried to put them back together in 10 minutes.

He said: “It was distressing to see so many worlds torn apart and so little done to mend them afterwards.”

His comments came as pressure grew on ITV to drop the series permanently.

It has been suspended after the suspected suicide of a guest who failed a lie detector on the programme.

Gavin said his footage in 2012 was for the show’s website and that he often saw guests “in great distress”.

He added: “It was shocking the very little amount of ointment they put on these people before they sent them away – the box is ticked, we’ve done our bit.

“It was like a sticking plaster. I found it horrific watching this take place.”

After guests leave the stage they normally talk to the show’s consultant psychotherapist Graham Stanier, who leads the duty of care effort and has worked on the programme since it was launched in 2005.

Gavin said: “Graham tried to put their lives back together before they left – but what struck me was how they’d ruthlessly broken them in the first place.

“Then they’d hastily try to glue it back together in 10 minutes afterwards.”

He said one example of this was a man being told he was not the biological father of his child then after the show