BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE JEREMY KYLE SHOW

A MUM who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle show said producers did a DNA test on her son and tried to “rile” her up before appearing on stage.

Debra Bayliss, 24, appeared on the now cancelled ITV show in January 2016 with a former partner, who was there to take a lie detector test after he accused her of cheating while he was in prison.

The pair, who were together at the time, received a DNA test for their young son who was six months old at the time.

A former producer has said the ITV show’s team “ruthlessly broke” guests who took part in their show, trying to put them back together in 10 minutes.

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

The show has now been axed after a guest, Steve Dymond, who appeared on the daytime show on May 2 when he failed a lie detector test was found dead at a block of flats in Portsmouth seven days later.

Debra, of Mountain Ash, said that when she and her ex went on the show, producers were set on “fuelling the fire” between the pair.

She said that they couple found themselves on the show just days after Debra sent them a message on Facebook.

“They said they had a cancellation the next day so could we go up there?

So we went,” she said.

“They paid for a taxi to Manchester to pick us up on the Tuesday night and we went to a different hotel first to do the DNA test in a room where they had it set up.

“We then went to a different hotel about 10 minutes away and they paid for that too.

“We also had a food allowance of £25 per person but they didn’t pay for alcohol.

“My ex left at about 6am the next morning to do the lie detector.

“Me and my son went to get the minibus to the studio and we put all our bags into the locker room and my son went into the creche.

“We were taken to a dressing room. Me and my ex were in separate rooms.

“I was separate to

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every other guest until they called us to go down.

“There are producers who come round and see you. They make small talk and asked why you’re on. “They do act quite friendly, but when you tell them details, they do try and rile you up. “They were trying to fuel the fire. They asked about what had gone on and said he had accused me of this.

“They do try and put themselves in your corner and rile you up.

“But I’m not argumentative. It didn’t work for me.”

After the show, Debra says she asked for relationship counselling for her and her partner, but says she never received any.

“I think it was all fine for me,” she said. “But the only thing I’d say is that we were offered relationship counselling