Loose Women star's brutal seven-word dig to co-stars after quitting 'boring' show
Carol McGiffin sensationally quit Loose Women in April last year after more than two decades on the programme as she issued a savage dig.
GB News: Carol McGiffin on her exit from ITV
Carol McGiffin revealed the co-stars she has kept in touch with since leaving the daytime show. The former Loose Women presenter, 64, admitted she doesn't have anything in common with a few of her fellow panellists - but didn't dish on the names.
The TV star spoke candidly in a joint interview with her husband Mark Cassidy, 42, as she took aim at the ITV show, adding she has no regrets about leaving Loose Women but will often tune in to remind herself she had made the right decision.
Carol appeared on Loose Women for 23 years, though left the ITV programme last year after finding she didn't "fit in there anymore". At the time, the podcast host claimed her opinions were often policed but admittedly missed the show.
Speaking in a new interview with OK! magazine, she said: "I don’t regret leaving – I don’t fit in there any more. Someone, somewhere will be offended by absolutely everything. I'd rather not be on a show that panders to that.
"It’s boring – and I won’t be told what I can or can’t say."
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Speaking about her former colleagues Carol gushed: "I’m still very good friends with a lot of the Loose ladies though. Denise Welch popped down here with Lincoln [Townley, her husband] last year and we met them for lunch. I’ve seen Kaye [Adams], Jane [Moore] and Nadia [Sawalha] a few times."
However, she is not in contact with all of the panellists, as she issued a brutal seven-word dig: "Some, I have nothing in common with."
She added: "As I said to them, 'You’re not friends, you’re just people I work with, who I really like.' Which horrified them."
Carol had been on the ITV chat show since 2000, but in an interview with Best magazine at the time of her departure, claimed that behind-the-scenes issues had forced her to step away from the show.
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The presenter later addressed her exit in an explosive interview on GB News when she said: “Well put it this way, reading all the comments from the article at the weekend there are a lot of people who think the programme has gone very, very woke.”
In April of this year, Carol took to Instagram to tell her followers: "Apparently, some people are missing me. Not because I haven't been on here for ages but because I'm not on that daytime ITV show I used to do, Loose Women." She continued: "Sadly that little job isn't coming back but I'm not totally retired yet."
Carol previously said she had been forced to leave the show following a row over her contract that had been going on since January.
An ITV spokesman said at the time: "ITV will not comment on speculation around individual contracts.
"We understand Carol has decided to leave Loose Women and we wish her well."
She is currently working on her memoir and What's Your Problem podcast alongside Nick Abbot.
Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12.30pm
