Jeremy Kyle Show Permanently Axed, Broadcaster ITV Announces

Jeremy Kyle poses at the British Soap Awards 2008 at BBC Television Centre in London, England, on May 3, 2008. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

“The Jeremy Kyle Show” has been taken off the air permanently after a guest on the show died of apparent suicide.

British television station ITV’s chief executive Carolyn McCall was cited by the BBC as saying the decision was a result of the “gravity of recent events.”