The Jeremy Kylea The show’s guard, known to viewers as Big Steve, has found a brand new position on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, it was alleged.
After the controversial tabloid talk show was canceled by ITV in 2019, the fan favorite was out of a job, but it wasn’t long before he was making a comeback.
A source told The sun: ‘Steve was on hand to make sure the filming goes smoothly and that everyone is super safe.
Congratulations! The Jeremy Kyle Show security guard, known to viewers as Big Steve (left), has found a brand new position on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, it was claimed
“He’s the best in the business and has had a lot of work since he left Jeremy Kyle.”
Steve was known to wrestle some guests to the floor during heated discussions on the show, as well as providing emotional support to others.
Working on the courtroom reality show Judge Rinder, the pair are believed to have developed a friendship outside of the studio as well.
MailOnline has contacted the BBC on behalf of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for comment.
New Boss: After the controversial tabloid talk show was canceled by ITV in 2019, the fan favorite was out of a job but it wasn’t long before he was on a resurgence (RuPaul pictured)
Jeremy returned to television screens in Britain for the first time in three years since being ousted from ITV when he helped launch new channel TalkTV with Sharon Osbourne in April.
The 57-year-old presenter’s eponymous Jeremy Kyle Show was indefinitely suspended in May 2019 following the death of contestant Steve Dymond, 63, a week after a program was filmed with him.
But Kyle returned to the TV screens as part of a new hour-long panel debate show, The Talk, where five commentators from different backgrounds and points of view discuss current issues.
Mr Dymond is believed to have died by suicide seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Show. He had taken a lie detector test after he was accused of cheating on his ex-fiancée Jane Callaghan of Gosport, Hampshire.
Jeremy revealed he went into depression and had to take pills for anxiety after his show was canceled following the death of a guest
The confrontational talk show, which was hugely popular and a regular part of the daytime TV program since 2005, was shut down for good after calls for its cancellation from MPs and members of the public.
After the show was withdrawn, MPs launched an inquiry into reality TV – and ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said the broadcaster had “looked at” to cancel it before removing it from its schedules.
Kyle returned to radio in September 2021 when he began hosting a show on talkRadio, but last night was his first time back on national TV — and he was photographed giving a thumbs up to the cameras as he entered the studio. left.
Earlier this year, the Hampshire coroner confirmed that an inquest into Mr Dymond’s death had been withdrawn following an application made on behalf of the deceased’s family. A new date for the procedure has not yet been given.
Pain: The confrontational talk show, which was hugely popular and a regular part of the daytime TV show since 2005, was shut down for good after calls to cancel it from MPs and members of the public (pictured in 2019)
Mr Dymond died of a morphine overdose and heart problems at his Portsmouth home, a preliminary hearing was told in 2020.
At the time, coroner Jason Pegg said Jeremy Kyle had called Mr Dymond a “serial liar” and said he “wouldn’t trust him with a chocolate bud.”
The coroner said Kyle would be a stakeholder in the inquest because “he may have caused or contributed to Mr Dymond’s death.”
In 2017, The Jeremy Kyle Show was labeled a “human form of bear fighting” by a judge after a guest on the show David Staniforth, 45, was convicted of assault for headbutting bus driver Larry Mahoney, 39, during an onstage argument. .
Kyle hosted The Jeremy Kyle Show for 14 years before it was discontinued in 2019. In a statement earlier this year, Kyle . told The sun: “I would like once again to express my deepest condolences to Mr Dymond’s friends and family.
“I have always maintained that it would be inappropriate to discuss the tragic death of Steve Dymond before the inquest is completed.
Likewise, the false and damaging allegations made against me by Channel 4 are now with the lawyers.
ITV will no doubt address the issues raised by Channel 4 around ITV’s production of The Jeremy Kyle Show itself, it would be wrong for me to speak on their behalf.
“This is not the time to debate or discuss what constitutes an ongoing legal process. If I can respond, I will.’
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Back: Jeremy helped launch new television channel TalkTV in April when he appeared on chat show The Talk