Coleen Nolan is worried about the financial implications of the Loose Women cuts.
Coleen Nolan's financial fears amid Loose Women cuts
The daytime panel show will move to term-time only amid budget cuts at ITV and while Coleen, 60, is looking forward to some extra time off, she admitted that money is a concern.
Speaking on the Not My Bagg podcast, she said: “We’ll only be on during term time now. So all the holidays will be off.
“On one hand, you go "quite nice time off". But then on the other hand, you go, ‘I’ve still got bills to pay.’”
And, she is worried about all of the staff who have lost their jobs.
She said: “It’s just a different vibe, I think it will be okay but I'm just going to miss a lot of different people behind the scenes.
“They've all got to find new jobs. So there's a sadness. I understand that it's a business, and sometimes in business hard decisions have to be made and nowadays it is all about budgets.
“It will still be live but there will be no audience and I don't think they are having guests. I just feel like it will be like a podcast but on live television.
“But, it could have been worse. They could have said: ‘By the way, we’re not recommissioning it. See you later.’ It's still here, it's still going.'
“I love having the audience there. You know, you get all the feedback from the audience and the adrenaline from the audience. So that's going to be really weird for us.”
She also spoke about all of the changes to when she first started working in TV.
She said: “TV is so different now. I mean, if you think of how many channels there are, the competition… I can't even count how many channels there are.
“It’s a different era now to what it was 25 years ago. When I was a kid, there was three channels. That's how old I am!”
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