Carol McGiffin shared a very blunt response to claims that she’s ‘returning to Loose Women to save it from the axe’.
The broadcaster, 66, was a regular panelist on the ITV from when it first hit our screens in 2000.
Carol’s first stint was between 2000 and 2013, followed by her second from 2018 to 2023.
The TV star recently took to her Instagram page to set the record straight after seeing a magazine article that stated: ‘Carol’s Loose Women return, could she save the show?‘
So Carol took to her own social media to clarify: ‘Just wanted to say I did not instigate this article but I’m flattered that [they] even ask the question ‘could she save the show!!!’
‘And, for the record, not a chance of a return.
Carol McGiffin shared a VERY blunt response to claims that she’s ‘returning to Loose Women to save it from the axe’
The broadcaster, 66, was a regular panelist on the ITV from when it first hit our screens in 2000 – pictured with her former co-stars Stacey Solomon, Kelle Bryan, Penny Lancaster, Brenda Edwards, Denise Welch, Jane Moore, Nadia Sawalha, Saira Khan, Kaye Adams, Andrea McLean, Ruth Langsford and Christine Lampard
‘I am very happy being semi-retired and living a lovely life with my gorgeous husband in the South of France. Thank you.’
Back in April 2023, Carol revealed last week that she had left the lunchtime show because of the contract she was offered from the channel.
She went on to tell Best magazine: ‘I feel quite upset about it, if I’m honest, because although it is my decision, I felt like it was one I was being forced to make.
‘No one in their right mind would have signed that contract.
‘And I can’t see a way back from it.’
The Mail on Sunday later disclosed that a free speech row was at the centre of her departure, after a backlash over her tirade in an interview on TNT talk radio.
She previously said on air during a TNT Radio interview for The Freeman Report, with James Freeman: ‘I always look back at when I started working in television and radio as the good old days because they were much less policed, I suppose.
‘Much less restricted and it was a freer place to be.
‘When I look back at the old Loose Womens I used to do from 2000 all the until I left in 2013, they’re completely different.
‘There is so much offence. People take so much offence at so much and they never used to.’
There has been a lot of change with the ITV schedule in recent months.
Back in May 2025, it was revealed that Lorraine and Loose Women were set to be axed for half the year and Lorraine’s runtime has been slashed by 30 minutes, as ITV Daytime bosses announced huge cuts today with job losses in excess of 220.
Host Lorraine Kelly has faced the brunt of the cuts with Good Morning Britain now taking her 9am to 10am slot for 22 weeks of the year.
For the remaining 30 weeks of the year, Lorraine will present five days a week, meaning her Friday stand-in presenters Ranvir Singh and Christine Lampard are no longer needed.
It was revealed that Lorraine’s show would be slashed in half, running for just 30 minutes from 9:30am to 10am.
ITV sources told MailOnline at the time that they have decided to cut resources on their daytime schedule so that the network can invest in more drama programmes.
It was also announced that ITV Studios will no longer make Good Morning Britain but instead it will be made by ITN – the organisation which makes ITV News.
At the start of March, Loose Women and Lorraine were pulled off air for WEEKS.
Viewers usually watch Good Morning Britain, followed by Lorraine, This Morning and then Loose Women every weekday on ITV.
