Forgotten This Morning star 'dumped' by ITV for wild conspiracy rant

Daily Mirror

02-07-2025

Emma Kenny was a regular presenter on This Morning until she was 'cancelled' after sharing her controversial views on coronavirus lockdown rules, which left her almost losing her family home
Former This Morning presenter Emma Kenny forged a new path after being 'cancelled' during the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this week she hit headlines after announcing the birth of her fourth child at the age of 52. Emma, a TV psychologist, is already a mum to two older children, Tyde, 22, and Evan, 20, as well as 23-month-old Etta Blue.
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She has welcomed her newborn with her 34-year-old husband, Pete. Sharing a string of sweet posts, Manchester-based Emma took to Instagram to announce the arrival of her baby daughter Ella-Grey, saying: "Say hi Ella-Grey And then we were six!
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"Say hello Ella-Grey! This morning she entered the world with a very loud cry. The Royal Bolton hospital have been fantastic and ensured that we have both been looked after brilliantly."
The new arrival comes after a tough time for the presenter in both her professional and personal life. Just a few weeks before she gave birth, Emma lost her mum 'suddenly'.
Explaining more about her loss, she said: "I lost my mum suddenly a couple of weeks back, and it's really strange knowing that neither of my babies will get to know their grandparents…..they would have loved them as older my boys did before them."
A few years earlier, Emma claims to have lost her presenting gig on This Morning due to her controversial views on coronavirus. She revealed she was left skint and almost lost her home after work dried up during lockdown.
The mum-of-four published a string of tweets sharing her anti-lockdown views on X, formerly Twitter. At the time, reports emerged that ITV bosses were unhappy with her conduct, which was denied at the time.
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Emma sparked controversy when she declared she would ignore government guidelines and advice about protecting against coronavirus in the run up to Christmas. She was slammed for tweeting: "I'm going to have parties, see my friends, invite EVERYONE around!
"I'm going to visit elderly neighbours and take cake. I'm not wearing a mask and I'm going to do what as a human I was born to do… socialise.' While the tweets were subsequently deleted, the TV star was met with a furious backlash.
A source told the Mail on Sunday: 'Those at the top put up with it for a few months but it got to the point where the backlash was too much.' Responding to rumours about her absence from the daytime show, Emma took to Twitter to reveal she has recently signed a new contract with ITV.
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She told her followers: "Just to make it clear I've just signed a new contract with This Morning and count the staff and many presenters as friends. Thanks for the messages of support. Xxxxxx. And a spokesperson for This Morning told the Mirror: "Emma Kenny is one of a host of expert contributors we continue to feature on the show."
However in a later interview with Johnny Seifert on Secure The Insecure podcast, Emma admitted that she suffered financially after being dropped and even consulted a crisis manager. She said: "I was cancelled. So it wasn't a thing of, 'I might be.' It happened. And it's the reality of working in a field where there is a safe space that you are allowed to remain in. And if you step outside of that, there are consequences."
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The ordeal came at the worst time, as just days earlier, her father had died by suicide. As a freelancer, six days later she was back at work, but before long, her contracts were getting cancelled after she spoke out.
She continued: "I was also managing some of my family's struggles because people in my family just couldn't go back to work. I was helping manage that on a financial level. So there were all these things that were happening around me. And then COVID hit.
"When I started to speak out, it was really difficult because I started to get all my contracts cancelled. And then my husband, who is a very lovely man, he also knew that I was the person that really brings the income in.
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"He works with me and he's amazing. Without him, I couldn't do what I do, but the point is it was me challenging our economic standard and I challenged it to the point where we nearly lost our home." Emma was advised by a PR consultant to apologise for what she said, but she refused.
Emma concluded: "I was told by a crisis manager to do things like take the vaccine live on TV. And I basically said that the consequence of that for me would be the end of my mental health. And also the end of my credibility as a human being for myself."
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Not all was lost as Emma pivoted to narrating true crime stories and set up her own YouTube channel, Emma Kenny True Crime. Opening up in her new post, Emma revealed that she didn't think she could find happiness again after the tragedy with her father.
"When my dad took his life in 2019, I never thought I would be happy again, but in truth I couldn't have been more wrong, I've learnt we are more than simply built to withstand suffering, we are programmed to learn, and grow, and develop courage through it. I cannot change what happened but I can embrace the gifts that grief brought me," she wrote.
To conclude her post, she thanked those who had stood by her in the dark times. She said: "Thank you to all of you who have spent years supporting me. You stood beside me in the dark times and you gave me so many new career directions that these days I don't need invites off the MSM! Thank you, all of you, for so much more than you could possibly know xxx."
Emma had kept her fourth pregnancy underwraps until revealing the happy news just last week. Showing off her bump while filming herself stood in front of a mirror, Emma told her fans: "Last show before I give birth! 9 months pregnant, quite happy to go into labour on stage….so any of you with health care qualifications at my Killer Couples, Liverpool Empire show tonight please be prepared!
Revealing her plans to return to work in just a few weeks, she continued: "Back on stage in September…..but for now it's time for baby, 2 year old, filming YouTube and Facebook and going on a road trip to Italy the minute this babies fast track passport arrives! X."
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