GB News: Carol McGiffin on her exit from ITV
Following her dramatic exit this year, former Loose Women star Carol McGiffin has blasted the show for being too “woke” and says she doesn’t miss working on the programme. The 63-year-old announced in May she was stepping down from her role on the ITV show after 23 years on the panel.
When asked if she missed the show, Carol told Women’s Own magazine: “No, I don’t miss Loose Women at all. My pronouns are P and off. It’s just very woke and I can’t deal with the wokeness. I know I wasn’t very welcomed.
“That’s not why I am not there. I am not there because of other stuff,” she alluded. The ITV star told her social media followers in May that she was “forced to step away” from her role because it was “stressing her out”.
She also explained to her social media followers at the time that she hadn’t been on the daytime show for two months due to “contract negotiations”.
However, in an interview with Dan Wootton, Carol told the GB News host that she wasn’t allowed to express her views on certain controversial subjects.
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Kicking off the interview, Dan began: “It struck strange to me because a number of people who seem to bump the woke agenda be it Jeremy Clarkson, Jeremy Kyle and Piers Morgan.
“Now you all happen to leave ITV after having expressed what they view as controversial views.
“So do you really think that ITV is a place where free speech thrives?”
Carol replied: “Well, that’s a tricky one, I can say that over the last three years especially I’ve been…I wouldn’t say censored, but I have been restricted in what I could say.
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“You know what my views are on these controversial matters, so to speak because I’ve been talking to you about them for the last three years on another station, which I got kicked off of by the way for having those views.
“So everybody knows what my views are, and I think there’s absolutely no doubt there were people at ITV who didn’t like me having those views.”
The television personality was on the show from 2000 until her first exit in 2013, before returning in 2018 until 2023.
Loose Women airs at 12:30pm weekdays on ITV1.
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