'I tried to sandpaper off my Jeremy Kyle tattoo - it felt like poison in my arm'
04.06.2022 - 09:47
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Tragic Steve Dymond's fiancée has had her tattoo of Jeremy Kyle's signature covered on her arm with a floral tribute to the man she lost. Back in 2019, Jane Callaghan appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show with her partner Steve so that he could take a lie detector test to prove that he hadn't cheated on her.
A week after failing the test, Steve was found dead at his home in Portsmouth. At the time, grandmother-of-five Jane didn't blame the show for Dymond's death, even having a Jeremy Kyle tattoo inked in support of the talk show host, whose show was pulled from the air in the fall-out from the tragedy.
However, after a recent documentary broadcast claims about alleged manipulative tactics behind the scenes, Jane, 52, feels differently about the Jeremy Kyle Show. Saying she feels 'used and humiliated' by the cancelled daytime TV show, Jane has now had her tattoo covered up with a touching floral tribute to Steve.
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Her new ink includes the lyrics 'only love can hurt like this', from the moving Paloma Faith ballad Steve used to play for her. Speaking with the Mirror , Jane said she had her original tattoo done around three or four months after Steve took the failed lie detector test.
Many people couldn't understand why she did it, but, at this point, Jane didn't blame the show, which she had long enjoyed watching, for Steve's death. Producers who came to visit her house in Portsmouth appeared to be, in her words, 'really good' to her.
However, after the Channel 4 documentary Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime aired in March, Jane, who is unemployed, says she was left feeling 'used', hating herself for having been 'sucked in by