Loose Women's Kaye Adams left 'devastated' after 'brutal' axe from TV role
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Loose Women panelist Kaye Adams was "devastated" after being brutally axed from a television job for a surprising reason.
Kaye, 62, thought she had a "big opportunity" after landing a role as a newsreader in her twenties. But the star found herself feeling "nervous" at the time and "went pokerface" when in front of the camera.
At the age of 24, the TV star confessed that she initially found it challenging to adjust to the role. This led to her former boss giving her a call and brutally removing her from the presenting line-up.
Speaking on the Walking the Dog podcast with Emily Dean, Kaye said: "I couldn't relax into it and I was too uptight and it showed. I had this wonderful boss, who has sadly passed away, who was a classic gruff Scotsman, a brilliant journalist, but oh my God, he didn't mince his words.
"The work environment has changed beyond all recognition from back then, it was brutal. I remember him calling me, I'd done the six o'clock news, and he said,' Oh Kaye, I don't know hen, can you smile a bit more or something? Or put some blusher on.
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"Then he said, 'No, you're not doing it anymore', so he took me off presenting. I was devastated, I was absolutely devastated because this had been my big opportunity.
"Then he said, 'No, you're not doing it anymore', so he took me off presenting. I was devastated, I was absolutely devastated because this had been my big opportunity."
Kaye went on to say the boss was "right" and feared she was taking it "too serious" due to her nerves, reports Belfast Live. She added: "I do miss the directness of that world, sometimes it could be too cruel or harsh, but it worked for me."
She explained she wouldn't have known she had any issues had she not been told. And even today, Kaye admits she has to "fake the smiliness".
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She added: "For quite a while I did have to fake the smiliness and I still have to fake it a little bit. I am very Scottish and, no disrespect to lovely English people, but they're lighter and smilier a lot of the time, maybe that's my kind of Scottish."
Kaye began her television career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, interviewing Margaret Thatcher as one of her first big breaks. She later moved back to Scotland to host Scotland Today, being one of the first reporters on the scene of the 1988 Lockerbie disaster.
She joined Loose Women in 1999, remaining on the show until 2006. She returned for a second spell on the hit ITV show in 2013, with fellow star Andrea McLean.
Kaye remains as one of the show's regular presenters alongside Ruth Langsford, Christine Lampard, and Charlene White. They are regularly joined by a host of guest panelists.
Speaking of her switch to Loose Women, Kaye said: "I was still quite conscious but the childhood show-off could come out there. In a news and political environment, it is serious and you do want to be taken seriously.
"You're surrounded by people who are quite pompous a lot of the time. Whereas there was a completely different environment with Loose Women and you're allowed to take that pressure off."
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