Ofcom have confirmed they are in talks with ITV about The Jeremy Kyle Show following the death of a guest.
Steve Dymond appeared on the show to try to clear his name of cheating accusations - but he was found dead at home just days later.
ITV axed the programme indefinitely, meaning the episode with Steve defending claims he was unfaithful to his fiancée Jane Callaghan will not be aired.
The UK's communications regulator, Ofcom confirmed they were speaking with the channel, saying: "This is clearly a very distressing case.
"Although we can only assess content that has been broadcast, we are discussing this programme with ITV as a priority to understand what took place."
Mr Dymond's friend Michael Bradley spoke exclusively to Mirror Online, claiming Steve was left feeling desperate after failing the lie detector test and expressed fears he may have taken his own life.
Michael said: “He got made out to be wrong but he wasn’t. Those lie detector tests aren’t 100%.
“Steve said he’d recently split with his fiancée but was getting reconciled. He contacted Jeremy Kyle himself to prove he was innocent. That’s how confident he was that he hadn’t done anything.”
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.
The Jeremy Kyle show featuring Steve was filmed in Manchester on May 1.
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Mirror Online reports Mr Bradley's claims that the show failed to give Steve proper “after care”. But ITV insiders insisted the series has a “very robust” duty-of-care process, despite Mr’s Dymond being the second guest to have died shortly after an appearance on the show.
Last year, 46-year-old Mark Sinclair, who had post-traumatic stress disorder, died of a drug overdose three months after appearing on the show to be reunited with his daughter, who he had not seen for eight years.
In, 2007 a Manchester judge described the daytime show as “a human form of bear-baiting” after a husband head-butted his wife on stage.
A statement released by ITV said: “Everyone is shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a participant in the show.
“ITV will not screen the episode in which they featured. ITV has also decided to suspend both filming and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle Show with immediate effect in order to give it time to conduct a review of this.”
The show features Jeremy Kyle and psychotherapist Graham Stanier helping guests talk through their personal issues in front of a studio audience with a regular daytime morning slot of 9:25am on ITV running since 2005.
