Ruth Langsford pulls out of TV show just hours before amid health issue
Loose Women panelist Ruth Langsford announced last-minute that she had to pull out of a scheduled TV appearance on a different show today just hours before she had been due on air
Presenter Ruth Langsford has announced that she's had to cancel a scheduled TV appearance as a result of ill health. She shared the news just hours before she was due on air.
Ruth, 65, had been scheduled to front another episode of her QVC show tonight. Ruth Langsford Fashion is broadcast once a week on the shopping channel, with each episode featuring "style advice and inspiration" from the former This Morning host. She however announced earlier that she wouldn't be on the latest episode, airing from 7pm to 9pm. She shared the news in a post on her Instagram Story this afternoon. It included a photo of Ruth and colleague Melissa Hardy. The Loose Women revealed that stylist Melissa would temporarily replace her on the fashion show.
Ruth wrote in the caption: "I've got a horrible tummy bug so unfortunately can't do my show [on QVC] tonight! Thankfully the wonderful [Melissa] is stepping in for me so I hope you can join her ... some lovely new pieces launching."
She also suggested that her colleague was her "hero" in the post, with her having posted a sticker of the description over the photo of the pair. Ruth expressed gratitude to her replacement too, writing elsewhere: "Thanks Melissa."
Melissa shared the post on her own account and issued a message for presenter Ruth following the news that she's unwell at the moment. In the caption that was on her own post today, she wrote: "Feel better soon Ruth."
In a subsequent post, she shared that she would be joined by presenter Ophelia Dennis on Ruth Langsford Fashion tonight. She wrote in her other post: "Stepping in for the lovely [Ruth] at 7 & 8pm with [Ophelia] & lots of new pieces."
Ruth has worked with QVC for over half a decade. She was named an ambassador for the brand in 2017 and now has her own clothing range, Ruth Langsford Fashion. She's continued to appear on the shopping channel in recent years.
She opened up about her relationship with the brand during a Q&A with her followers back in 2019. Ruth revealed at the time that she felt "privileged" to have been invited to collaborate with QVC at the beginning of their partnership.
The insight was shared after being asked how she got to work for the shopping channel. She responded to the question: "I was very privileged that [QVC] invited me to develop my own clothing range with them so of course ... I said yes!"
Ruth has been known to promote her work on QVC and some of its products on her account. Just last week, for example, she posted about having done a "fun photoshoot" for the show Today's Special Value, which she has hosted before.
She wrote: "Fun photo shoot yesterday for my next [QVC] TSV (Today's Special Value). We were working hard but we always have a laugh too!" Ruth then thanked colleagues whom she had been alongside at the photoshoot.
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