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Carol McGiffin hits out at Loose Women's ‘exhausting' wardrobe rules as she reveals body part they banned from showing

CAROL McGiffin has blasted Loose Women again as she revealed its strict wardrobe rules - and slammed ITV bosses amid budget cuts. The broadcaster, 65, officially left the ITV Daytime show in 2023 following a contract dispute. 3 Loose Women has a strict wardrobe policy, according to a former pannelist Credit: Rex 3 Carol McGiffin says the panel were told what to wear and everything needed to be 'coordinated' Credit: Rex While she's still pals with her former co-stars, she hasn't got many good things to say about the higher ups. Taking a swipe at her former employers, Carol wrote in her Best magazine column: "If those in charge had spent less time obsessing over wardrobe policy and allowed presenters to be themselves, allowing them to say what they think rather than what they wanted them to think, they might not be losing 200+ jobs." She went on: "TV bosses, in my experience, love telling their 'on-screen talent' what to wear, as well as what to say. "I did Loose Women for almost 20 years and the mandated dress codes used to exhaust me." READ MORE ON LOOSE WOMEN Carol, who first appeared on the series in 2000 before she quit in 2023, said one fleeting rule they enforced was a ban on bare arms being shown on screen. She said: "We went from wearing our own clothes to being bought stuff to adhere to ludicrous wardrobe policies like 'no arms on show' ... "Presumably because our ageing biceps were morphing into bingo wings which the (male) boss at the time had decided were offensive. "Another female(!) boss once ordered all the women to wear high heels as well. Most read in Reality "I always loathed being 'dressed' or 'styled' as they preferred to call it. "You always had to be coordinated up to the eyeballs in nice slacks, wrap dresses or boiler suits." Watch as Kaye Adams breaks silence on Loose Women cuts She continued: "It used to make me shudder, nearly as much as the insane amount of waste on unimaginable amounts of clothes that had mostly only been worn once." Carol sparked a feud with bosses when she left the show, making multiple rebukes i ncluding . It comes as ITV announced redundancies across its Daytime TV shows. The reshuffle comes amid a 3 Carol time on Loose Women came to an end in 2023 Credit: Rex