TV host Jeremy Kyle is expected to give evidence at an inquest into the death of Steve Dymond, who died shortly after failing a lie detector test on his show in May 2019.

The presenter was previously made an interested person to the inquest by the coroner because "he may have caused or contributed" to Mr Dymond's death. The digger driver from Portsmouth died of a morphine overdose and heart problem seven days after appearing on the show.

He was found dead in his bedroom at his home. He had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his ex-fiancee Jane Callaghan, from Gosport.

The court was told Mr Dymond had considered jumping out of the taxi on his way home from filming and felt "life was not worth living". Claire Overman, representing Mr Dymond's brother, Leslie Dymond, and son, Carl Woolley, told a preliminary hearing at Winchester that Leslie Dymond said that his brother had told him that the audience had "booed and hissed" at him.

He had also been "followed off stage" and had the results of the lie detector test "pushed right in his face". Video evidence from the programme, which never aired, showed Kyle calling Mr Dymond a "serial liar," but Ms Overman said claims he had also called him a "traitor and a failure" were not backed up by footage.

Ms Overman added that Mr Dymond had told his brother that he was "incredibly stressed.