Coleen Nolan, a veteran of Loose Women, has spoken out about the “devastating” effects of the ITV changes, claiming that many of the cast members have “becomed her family.”
Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan has described the upcoming changes and cuts at ITV as “devastating” with staff members currently living in limbo. The channel recently announced a raft of changes to its daytime schedules, including slashing the daytime panel show down to 30 weeks a year and merging the teams working on Lorraine, Loose Women and This Morning.
After celebrating 25 years on the show this year, Coleen has now expressed her destruction and worries about what will happen to the behind-the-scenes staff. The members of the crew have a family. She said, “I’ve watched them grow.” Some of our competitors from the past are producers and have children. I’ve lived with them all my life. They are unsure of what to do because they are in limbo.
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She continued, “Loose Women is changing, not ending, which I’m so grateful for.” The crew size will be very different, but it’s still running. There isn’t another show that celebrates and supports all women of all ages, sizes, and genders, which is what it should be. However, it is heartbreaking to see some of my coworkers unsure of their next steps. Many of them have mortgages and young families.
Sources previously told the Mirror there wouldn’t be any “radical changes” to the Loose Women panel, but there are expected to be a number of redundancies in the behind-the-scenes crew.
Lorraine Kelly’s daily show is also being cut to 30 minutes each day and to 30 weeks of the year, with Good Morning Britain running until 9.30am to fill the time. GMB will also be extended until 10am on the weeks Lorraine is off air entirely.
Coleen, 60, joined the series in 2000, joining Jane Moore, Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha and Ruth Langsford, and told Mirror’s Notebook magazine she had never experienced anything like the current changes.
You read all about it frequently, she said, noting that 300 people are affected by a chain store closure. Oh my goodness, that’s awful. What do you want for dinner, anyway? because it doesn’t have a direct impact on you.
I’ve never come this far away. It made me realize how devastating this is being carried out across the entire nation right now.
The channel’s daytime slate is “a really important part of what we do,” according to Kevin Lygo, managing director of ITV’s Media and Entertainment Division, adding that the change will allow us to continue to deliver a schedule that gives viewers the news, debate, and discussion they adore from the presenters they and trust.
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Source: Mirror
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