Loose Women presenters threaten 'mutiny'

Loose Women presenters threaten 'mutiny'
Loose Women presenters threaten 'mutiny' (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

The presenters of Loose Women are reportedly threatening 'mutiny' after Kate Thornton and Zoe Tyler were given their marching orders from the show. According to the Mirror the show's regular stars including Lynda Bellingham and Carol McGiffin are furious that they were not given notice about the changes. And the paper reports that the remaining presenters are threatening to reduce the number of hours they work when the show returns in the autumn. "All the girls were pretty peeved about the way in which Kate and Zoe were handed their notice," a source said. "The women are, and were, a tightknit bunch. They didn't feel change needed to be made in such a dramatic fashion." Carol Vorderman and former Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay are expected to join the lunchtime show amid concerns from the other presenters over how they will work together on screen. "There is some concern that because they did not all screen test together, the chemistry will not be right," the insider revealed. "Things are tense at the moment as no-one feels their job is safe."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.