David Staniforth, (pictured) now 57, had just gone through a bitter break-up from his wife of 26 years when he was emotionally blackmailed by his own daughter into appearing on the show
A former security guard whose life fell apart after he head-butted a love rival on the Jeremy Kyle Show has revealed the underhand tricks used by producers to bring out the very worst in their guests.
David Staniforth, now 57, had just gone through a bitter break-up from his wife of 26 years when he was emotionally blackmailed by his own daughter into appearing on the show.
It ended with him pleading guilty to common assault. The magistrates, who were shown footage from the show, said he had been, 'highly provoked' and that the producers of the show should be in the dock with him.
The show was referred to as a 'human form of bear baiting' by one of the magistrates who sentenced him.
Mr Staniforth, from Clowne, Derbyshire, a father-of-two, said he was never offered counselling after the show.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: 'My wife had left the family home after 26 years of marriage and our daughter, then in her early twenties, wanted answers.
'Her mum had told her certain things about me and she didn't know what to believe, so she rang up Jeremy Kyle.
'I then got four or five phone calls from the show producers and I told them straight, 'I don't wish to wash my dirty laundry in public. I'm not interested.'.
'But I was very vulnerable. I was still in love with Jennifer at the time and had just found out that, behind my back, she had been seeing a man called Larry Mahoney who was our lodger and a good friend of mine.
David Staniforth headbutted Larry Mahoney on the Jeremy Kyle Show. Mr Staniforth's life fell apart after appearing on the show
Larry Mahoney (pictured left) and Jennifer Staniforth (pictured right) who also appeared on the show
'The producers did not leave me alone. They rang me up and said, 'Do you still love your wife? Would you do anything to get her back?
'They told me they had been speaking to Jennifer and that she wanted to explain everything, to apologise to me and ask me to take her back. I just needed to go on the show.
'I wasn't stupid. I knew this wasn't going to happen and in the end it was my daughter who talked me into doing it.
'Her mum had said that I had been unfaithful which I knew I hadn't. She said she wanted me to go on a take the lie detector test. She said Larry was going on and that if I didn't she'd think I was less of a man.
'I told her I would do it for her but not to hold me responsible for my actions.'
The build-up to the show involved guests being collected from their homes in taxis and taken to an assortment of salubrious hotels in Manchester, close to the Granada studios.
There they were asked to sign agreements that if there was any alcohol abuse, drug abuse or physical abuse of staff they would be sent home.
Hotel staff were notified of who was a Jeremy Kyle show guest and instructed not to serve them alcohol on the night before filming.
'At the studio I was put into a room with a security guard outside it and left to wait. Eventually Jeremy Kyle came in and introduced himself.
'He came across as the nicest
