Outspoken Loose Women star Carol McGiffin has opened up about her reasons for leaving the ITV daytime show after announcing her official exit earlier this month
The TV star, who has appeared on the show on and off for over 20 years, reportedly fought with ITV bosses after she made comments about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Carol reportedly fought with ITV over her right to free speech and expression, as she opened up in an interview with TNT talk radio where she revealed the comments she made about media “brainwashing” the public caused tension.
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She also made further ‘conspiracy’ style comments directed at former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, when she also he attempted to bring Covid patients from France to the UK to fill empty hospital beds during the height of the pandemic.
In her interview, Carol said: “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.
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“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.”
Earlier this month, when Carol announced her official exit, she wrote in her column for Best magazine: “I haven’t been on the show for two months now because I’ve had to step away from it.
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“The problem was, ITV were insisting, for the first time since I went back in 2018, that if I wanted to carry on doing the show, I would have to sign a contract that was totally unjust and unworkable for me, so I had to say no thanks.
“And I know it looks like I’ve thrown my toys out of the pram, but the whole saga was affecting my health.
“It’s not really that I’ve left, I’m just not doing it at the moment.
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“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.”
At the time ITV said: “ITV will not comment on or disclose details of individual contracts but all ITV contracts comply with the relevant external legislation.”
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