{"id":577421,"date":"2026-07-31T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577421\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:25:12","slug":"christine-lampard-gets-new-job-on-this-morning-after-loose-women-was-axed-for-the-summer-amid-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577421\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Lampard gets new job on This Morning after Loose Women was axed for the summer amid budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christine Lampard<\/a> has landed a new job on This Morning after ITV<\/a> axed Loose Women<\/a> and Lorraine for the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, the programme announced the presenter, 47, will host the show alongside Craig Doyle while Cat Deeley<\/a> and Ben Shephard<\/a> take their summer break.<\/p>\n

The next few weeks will also see Josie Gibson<\/a>, Paddy McGuinness<\/a>, Sian Welby, Angela Scanlon<\/a> and Rylan Clark<\/a> front This Morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Christine has regularly appeared as a stand-in presenter on the show since 2013, this marks her prominent return to the sofa for the summer period.<\/p>\n

Last year, ITV announced that Lorraine and Loose Women will only air for 30 weeks a year rather than 52, resulting in more than 220 of 440 staff involved losing their jobs.<\/p>\n

Lorraine’s running time was also cut by 30 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Christine Lampard has landed a new job on This Morning after ITV axed Loose Women and Lorraine for the summer (pictured on Loose Women)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christine has been an anchor on Loose Women since 2016 and also stepped in for Lorraine to host the show when she was on holiday.<\/p>\n

ITV wrote: ‘Get your passports ready! From sofa to sun lounger, brighten up your mornings with our all-star lineup. This summer only on This Morning.’<\/p>\n

Fans seemed impressed by the prospect of Christine fronting the show with Craig as they wrote: ‘\u00a0Christine & Craig will be a blast along with the others’.<\/p>\n

‘Christine and Craig Our very own Irish duo’.<\/p>\n

‘Look forward to Christine and Craig’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ITV announced dramatic budget cuts to its daytime schedule from halving Lorraine to 30 minutes and only airing the show during school term times to cutting Loose Women’s output to 30 weeks a year.<\/p>\n

Under the plans, production of Good Morning Britain will be handled by a dedicated team at ITV News, which is made by ITN, the company that also holds the contracts to produce the news for Channel 4 and Channel 5.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, the programme announced the presenter, 47, will host the show alongside Craig Doyle<\/p>\n

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Regular hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley are taking their summer break\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fans seemed impressed by the prospect of Christine fronting the show with Craig as they wrote: ‘ Christine & Craig will be a blast along with the others’<\/p>\n

ITV Studios will continue to produce Lorraine, Loose Women and This Morning but is consulting on a plan to reduce the three separate teams to one, with the latter being prioritised in terms of its celebrity bookings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha expressed her sadness at the time over the show scrapping a live studio audience and as a result, her close friend and colleague, Lee Peart, who works as a\u00a0warm-up artist, losing his job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said:\u00a0‘I am totally devastated by this fact, I can’t get over it at all. Not only because the audience is so important for the show, but also my dear friend Lee who I work with every day.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nadia also vocalised her feelings over the ‘brutal’ cuts to Loose Women as she explained how tough the May announcement had been for staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She explained: ‘This show has been highly successful for 25 years, more actually now, it is such a clear brand…<\/p>\n

‘The brutality of the world… what a lot of people don’t realise is that we’re self-employed, every contract is a new contract, I could be let go tomorrow or in five years, we’re not employees.<\/p>\n

‘What’s been absolutely brutal over the last week and honestly, I feel tearful about it is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue, these are people behind the scenes, that support us in every way.<\/p>\n

‘It’s the way of the world, inflation is insane, cuts have to be made… a lot of my friends and colleagues on this show and at ITV have been there for decades, and I can’t tell you how upsetting it was to see people walking around numb with shock and fear about what they were going to do.’\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christine Lampard has landed a new job on This Morning after ITV axed Loose Women and Lorraine for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[141916,8212,8211,34150,539,93,61,60,8642,59603,11418,87132,137486,7076,1489],"class_list":["post-577421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-angela-scanlon","tag-ben-shephard","tag-cat-deeley","tag-christine-lampard","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-itv","tag-josie-gibson","tag-loose-women","tag-paddy-mcguinness","tag-rylan-clark-neal","tag-this-morning","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}