Loose Women star suffered 'sleepless nights' after brutal ITV cuts
Loose Women star Kaye Adams revealed she had a few 'sleepless nights' after ITV announced changes to the daytime programmes. The ITV programme will be cut to just 30 weeks of the year and the team behind Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will all be merged, which will lead to redundancies at ITV.
Lorraine Kelly's show is also being cut to 30 minutes and will air 30 weeks of the year. As a result, Good Morning Britain will be extended until 9.30am each day. Some of the Loose Women stars have yet to speak out, but Nadia Sawalha and Kaye recently broke their silence to share their thoughts on the changes.
"What has been brutal over the past week and I am getting tearful about it, is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue," Nadia said in a recent YouTube video.
Meanwhile, Kaye took to her How to be 60 podcast and said the cuts "came out of the blue". The 62-year-old admitted: "I didn't anticipate it, which is probably stupid in retrospect. You get into a sort of rhythm of life.
"I had a couple of sleepless nights I have to say, because it's just like the rug's been pulled from under your feet – what has been familiar.'
She continued: "It's going to have an impact. Lots of people will lose their jobs completely which is terrible. It's a huge change. But I gave myself a talking to and I listened to my own advice for once – change is hard, but it can be good.
'The past is a trap, don't fear the future – I'm telling myself all these things. And maybe this is the nudge that I needed to make some changes in my life and I'll just have to go with it.'
Nadia spoke out about the cuts last week and told her fans that some people behind the scenes "are really suffering".
She explained: "What you don't realise is when you attack the show you attack them, because you never see all the army of people behind the scenes and how hard they work.
"So to all my friends and colleagues behind the scenes who have just got a huge shock out of the blue, I'm so sorry. Mark knows how upset I've been at home about it. I just can't bear it. So just be f*****g kind to people."
She then added: "What people don't realise at Loose Women is that we're self-employed, I am self-employed. Every contract is a new contract. I could be let go tomorrow, in five years, you don't know because we're not employees.
"So I can't tell you anything accept I am on for my next contract. What has been brutal over the past week and I am getting tearful about it, is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue.
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