Linda Robson is clueless about whether her job at Loose Women is safe from the cuts.
Linda Robson is in the dark about her return to Loose Women
ITV announced in May that the daytime show will air for 30 weeks per year from 2026 due to cost-cutting measures at the
channel.
And, the Birds of a Feather legend - who has had two tenures on the programme from 2012 to 2018, and 2020 to present - has joked that she will have to go back to working in a fish and chip shop if she's not invited back next year.
The 67-year-old panellist told The Mirror: “It’s hopefully back in January, if we’ve still got jobs.
“We have to wait and find out. My first job was in a fish and chip shop so I might have to go back to the fish and chip shop!”
Coleen Nolan, meanwhile, recently insisted their jobs were safe amid the looming cuts.
Asked if stars will be departing, the 60-year-old star – who has featured on the Loose Women panel since 2000 – told Bella magazine: "No, (the producers) have just got to work it out because we'll only be on air for 30 weeks. But there's no mention of anyone going.
"We have to have a big pool of women because a lot of us are mothers and grandmothers and have other jobs outside of it. That's why it's great – then they've always got cover."
Coleen stressed that the morale behind the scenes on Loose Women is "amazing again" now the panellists have clarity about the programme's future and rubbished claims of fall-outs between the stars.
The Nolans singer explained: "When it was first announced, morale was low, purely because of all the amazing people behind the scenes losing jobs. It was really sad, but now we all know what's going on, the morale is amazing again.
"It's going to be a massive loss not being able to have a (studio) audience, but the stories of backstage bickering are so fake. They're like my second family, it's like having extra sisters."
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