Kaye Adams Opens Up About Major Changes on Loose Women

Loose Women presenter Kaye Adams has admitted she had a "few sleepless nights" after news broke of the major shake-up in ITV's daytime schedule.

Unexpected Changes
Chatting with Karen MacKenzie on their How To Be 60 podcast, Kaye wryly commented that her co-host seemed blissfully unaware of the shock news, saying: "Well, my life's just imploded, but don't you worry about it. That's absolutely fine."

The cuts will see Loose Women airing for just 30 weeks of the year, instead of the year-round schedule it has had to date: "It's going to have an impact," Kaye said. "Lots of people will lose their jobs completely, which is terrible."

Kaye admitted that the sweeping changes – which will also result in a reduced schedule for Lorraine Kelly's show, as well as Loose Women – had come completely out of the blue: "I didn't anticipate it, which is probably stupid in retrospect, but you get into a sort of rhythm of life..."

ITV is expected to shed some 220 staff working across daytime shows including GMB, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women. There have been reports that as well as redundancies for production staff, the overall number panellists could be reduced.

Philosophical Attitude
Kaye's colleague Nadia Sawalha has said that she "could be let go tomorrow, [or] in five years." However, Kaye says she's determined to maintain a philosophical attitude, explaining: "I gave myself a talking-to and I listened to my own advice for once. Change is hard, but it can be good. The past is a trap, don't fear the future; I'm telling myself all these things, and I think maybe this is the nudge that I needed to make some changes in my life and I'll just have to go with it."

One of those things, she said, would be downsizing from her current home to somewhere a little smaller, before gloomily adding: "But now I've lost my job, I might be in a one-bedroom flat somewhere."

She said that the downsizing process is already in hand, as she's signed up for a reality show called The Yorkshire Auction House and is currently earmarking items that she wants to get rid of.

Kaye joked that her partner Ian Campbell probably wouldn't notice that most of the furniture was being carried out of the door: "I b****y guarantee he wouldn't notice. I mean, he might if the sofa was gone or the television, but that's about it!"

A statement about the changes from ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, Kevin Lygo, read: "I recognise that our plans will have an impact on staff off-screen in our Daytime production teams, and we will work with ITV Studios and ITN as they manage these changes to produce the shows differently from next year, and support them through this transition. Daytime has been a core element of ITV's schedule for over 40 years, and these changes will set ITV up to continue to bring viewers award winning news, views and discussion as we enter our eighth decade."