An axed Loose Women star has made their emotional last appearance on the ITV chatshow ahead of huge shake-ups at the channel come January
14:42, 22 Dec 2025Updated 14:42, 22 Dec 2025
The much-loved star is making a sad exit from the show after eight years(Image: ITV)
It was revealed earlier this year that Lee Peart – Loose Women‘s long-standing warm-up act, would be saying goodbye to the show from the New Year, after show bosses decided to axe the live audience.
And on Monday’s This Morning, funnyman Lee – who has been making audiences chuckle before Loose Women since 2017 – kicked off his final week on the morning chatshow, hosting the competition live on-air before his sad departure.
A job normally given to usual hosts Jeff Brazier or Kate Lawler, Lee – who was seen reporting live from Warwick castle, as he gave out details while skating round an ice rink, was given the gig to mark his imminent departure from the show for good.
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Lee presented the competition segment from a skating rink at Warwick Castle(Image: ITV)
In the past few weeks, Lee had been sharing emotional updates on social media of sad goodbyes with various panellists, some of who he has worked with since he started.
Earlier this month, he revealed on Facebook that it would be a “bittersweet end of an era”.
He added, “Two weeks today will be my final Loose Women! A bittersweet end of an era… the goodbyes are starting as it’s the last time I’ll work with Ruth, Gloria and Kellie in this capacity!”
He then shared a smiling selfie with panellist Denise Welch, who last week confessed that she felt “so sad” that the comedian would no longer be on the show.
Lee’s sad news first came to light back in July, when panellist Nadia Sawahla said in a YouTube video: “From next year there will be no Loose Women audience. 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.”
Lee will be busy in the new year with a podcast with pal Alan Carr(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty I)
Fans will be able to tune into an exciting new project from Lee come 2026, however – a brand-new wine podcast with his pal, Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr – and no doubt, a whole lot of laughs, too.
Each episode of Bottoms Up! blends entertaining chat, gossip and chaos with wine insights, tackling questions on how best to drink rosé or how to handle a disappointing bottle at the table.
Speaking about their new venture together recently on Lorraine, Lee explained, “If you go to a fancy restaurant, you have no qualms saying to the waiter, ‘Oh, what’s this dish?’ But with the wines, you feel a bit intimidated. We’re trying to demystify it for people.”
Alan added: “[We have] experts coming on, just giving you advice and stuff, because sometimes it’s overwhelming when you’re buying wine and everything. And also, there’s little bargains there.”
Come January, amid cuts at ITV daytime, both Loose Women and Lorraine will be airing for just 30 weeks of the year, rather than the usual year-long broadcast – as well as being reduced to 30 minutes per episode.
Though no on-air stars have lost their jobs in the big changes, they will not appear as often given that there will be less episodes per year.
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