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.