Alcoholic's 'Kyle' beer claim denied

The Jeremy Kyle Show producers have denied that they plied an alcoholic guest with beer before he appeared on the programme.

Peter Davies featured in a February episode of the show to discover why his father had excluded him from his will. He has since claimed that staff at the studio persisted in giving him alcohol and has insisted they were stirring him "up for a fight".

Davies told The Sun: "They basically wanted me to make a fool of myself - and that's exactly what I did. I was half-cut by the time I went on stage. They knew I was an alcoholic and they should never have given me a drink."

But a spokesman for the ITV show insisted that they had not given Mr Davies five cans of lager as he has claimed, and instead revealed they had given him "two small cups of weak lager over a two-and-a-half hour period to counteract alcohol withdrawal symptoms".

ITV claimed that the amount given had been prescribed on medical advice and he had reportedly been assessed before being declared fit to appear on the show.

Earlier this week The Jeremy Kyle Show was branded "morbid" and like a "a form of human bear-baiting" by a judge after he sentenced a guest from the show for head-butting another man during filming for an episode earlier this year.