UK broadcaster ITV has been urged to cancel the Jeremy Kyle Show after the sudden death of a man who failed a lie-detector test on the controversial programme.
The confrontational talk show was pulled off the air indefinitely by ITV following the death of the guest, named by The Sun as 63-year-old Steve Dymond, a week after the programme was filmed.
Mr Dymond took a lie-detector test to convince fiancee Jane Callaghan he had not been unfaithful but they split after he failed, according to The Sun.
ITV said staff at the broadcaster and the show's production team were "shocked and saddened" at the death and the episode will be reviewed.
However, British Conservative MP Charles Walker, a vice-chairman of Britain's all-party parliamentary group on suicide and self-harm prevention, admitted he would be surprised if the show returned to screens.
He told the Daily Mail: "On reflection, ITV would be best advised just to stop it. It's a very, very unattractive TV show and I'm surprised it's gone on so long."
Damian Collins, chairman of the British House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said TV companies "have a duty to care to the people who take part in their programmes".
Simon Hart, a Conservative MP who also sits on the committee, described the Jeremy Kyle Show as "car-crash TV which revels in people's terrible misfortune and sometimes their vulnerabilities".
