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The public humiliation diet

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

Last month, the UK’s version of Jerry Springer, The Jeremy Kyle Show, was cancelled after a guest suicided post-recording.

Steve Dymond — accused of infidelity by his fiancée and thrown out of his flat — volunteered to take a lie-detector test live on air to ‘get everything sorted’. Unaware that claims for the polygraph’s accuracy are pseudoscience on par with homeopathy, Dymond failed the test.

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