Loose Women is in the middle of a new feud as a former star claims she "wasn't welcomed" and "doesn't miss" the show after her sudden departure.
Carol McGiffin, 63, who was on the ITV programme from 2000 until 2013 and returned in 2018 before leaving earlier this year, has been vocal about her dissatisfaction with her time on the lunchtime programme, saying it had changed.
In a chat with Women's Own magazine, she said: "No, I don't miss Loose Women at all. My pronouns are P and Off. It's just very woke and I can't deal with the wokeness. I know I wasn't really welcomed." But she added: "That's not why I am not there. I am not there because of other stuff."
While she misses her co-stars, she doesn't miss being on TV. Carol hadn't been on the show for months before she finally spoke up and confirmed that she wouldn't be returning, explaining that she had to "step away" from the show after allegedly being asked to sign a contract which was "totally unjust and unworkable for me".
Speaking to TNT talk radio, Carol reminisced: "I always look back at when I started working in television and radio as the good old days because they were much less policed, I suppose. Much less restricted and it was a freer place to be."
"When I look back at the old Loose Womens I used to do from 2000 all the way until I left in 2013, they're completely different. There is so much offence. People take so much offence at so much and they never used to."
Carol has previously blasted 'cutthroat' ITV as 'dysfunctional as they come'. “They go on about the ‘ITV Daytime Family’ being cosy best mates, all caring and kind, but in my opinion it’s about as dysfunctional as they come,” she wrote in her column for Best magazine.
She went on to describe a “cut-throat, competitive and ruthless” culture, adding, “and as soon as your face doesn’t fit any more, or you disagree with their narrative, you’re out the door.”
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