The daytime show, which was once likened to 'bear-baiting' by a UK judge over its confrontational approach, broadcast the obscenity on July 2nd on ITV2.
The offensive remark had not been edited out of the broadcast as producers had not heard it during a segment in which two guests on the show spoke over one another.
But the media regulator Ofcom has ruled the incident was 'highly offensive and unacceptable'.
Only a single complaint was received by Ofcom over the swearing - broadcast in a 'tease' section in the show - which ITV said confirmed the remark had not been 'readily audible'.
The media watchdog accepted the obscenity 'may have been difficult to identify' but added the occurrence was 'the third instance during a period of just over one year where the most offensive language had been included in error in a daytime edition of The Jeremy Kyle Show'.
ITV has since confirmed the same production team would edit both the main broadcast and 'tease' sections so as to avoid future repeats of such mistakes.
Ofcom has also found an episode of ghost-hunting show Most Haunted to be in breach of its broadcasting code after variants of the f-word were uttered 16 times during a daytime edition.
Virgin Media, which owns digital channel Living 2, said the episode was intended to be broadcast after the 21:00 watershed and had been screened during the day due to human error.
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