{"id":373864,"date":"2026-01-16T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:41:10","slug":"coleen-nolans-financial-concerns-as-she-addresses-sad-change-to-loose-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373864\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleen Nolan’s financial concerns as she addresses ‘sad’ change to Loose Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coleen Nolan says she’ll be financially worse off after the sweeping changes being made to ITV’s daytime schedule behind the scenes with Loose Women only airing during term time\"Coleen<\/p>\n

Coleen says she’ll be worse off due to the ITV changes(Image: Ken McKay\/ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

As the much-discussed cutbacks in ITV\u2019s daytime schedule begin to bite, veteran Loose Women<\/a> panellist Coleen Nolan<\/a> \u2013 who has been with the show since its inception \u2013 has spoken frankly of her concerns about the changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ll only be on during term time now,\u201d she explained on the Not My Bagg<\/a> podcast. “So all the holidays will be off.”<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cOn one hand, you go \u2018quite nice time off.\u2019 but then on the other hand, you go: ‘I\u2019ve till got bills to pay.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Coleen believes that, given the scale of the cuts, Loose Women was lucky to have survived at all: \u201cIt could have been worse,\u201d she said. \u201cThey could have said: ‘By the way, we\u2019re not recommissioning it. See you later\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the huge budget cuts, there have been major changes to shows such as Good Morning Britain<\/a> (GMB<\/a>), Lorraine, and This Morning<\/a> as well as Loose Women. Production has been shifted out of ITV<\/a>\u2019s huge studio in west London and to a much smaller facility in Covent Garden \u2013 where there will no longer be room for Loose Women\u2019s live studio audience.<\/p>\n

\"Coleen<\/p>\n

Many have bemoaned the loss of Loose Women’s live audience(Image: Ken McKay\/ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Coleen said: \u201cI love having the audience there. You know, you get all the feedback from the audience and the adrenaline from the audience. So that’s going to be really weird<\/a> for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The absence of a live audience has been noticed by viewers too, with Loose Women fans making comments on social media such as: “The audience makes a huge contribution to the atmosphere of the show. Bring them back.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only the audience that have disappeared, but many of the show\u2019s backstage staff too. While Coleen has complain that her income will be reduced, some 220 people have lost their livelihoods altogether.<\/p>\n

Coleen, 60, says that while she understands the reasoning behind all the cost-cutting, she\u2019s still been very sad to say goodbye to so many backstage personnel that she has known for years: \u201cThey’ve all got to find new jobs,\u201d she said. \u201cSo there’s a sadness.<\/p>\n

\"Coleen<\/p>\n

The show is in its 26th year, and has weathered many changes(Image: Ken McKay\/ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that it’s a business, and sometimes in business hard decisions have to be made and nowadays it is all about budgets.<\/p>\n

\u201cTV is so different now. I mean, if you think of how many channels there are, the competition\u2026 I can’t even count how many channels there are.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different era now to what it was 25 years ago. When I was a kid, there was three channels. That’s how old I am!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I did the Cliff Richard series when I was nine, that went out on a Saturday night and there were 23 million every week watching that show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Coleen<\/p>\n

Coleen says she’ll miss a lot of the show’s backstage crew, who are moving on(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

One venture that Coleen will be embarking on to replace the substantial dent that the ITV cuts have made in her life \u2013 and in her income \u2013 is a live tour. She\u2019s following her hit 2024 show Naked with a new one-woman show called This Is Me which kicks off next month.<\/p>\n

The show will take audiences through Coleen\u2019s life story. It starts with her childhood in Blackpool and following the story of success that began before her ninth birthday with an appearance on The Cliff Richard show as part of the original six-strong Nolan Sisters.<\/p>\n

But Coleen will also touch on the more difficult aspects of her life, including her divorces from Shane Ritchie and Ray Fensome, as well as her shock basal-cell carcinoma diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have asked me whether my honesty and openness has ever left me feeling vulnerable,\u201d she told Woman\u2019s Weekly. \u201cI can only answer that I can sleep better knowing I’ve been honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that it\u2019s essential to be genuine with audiences, saying: \u201cIt’s very difficult to keep up a persona that isn’t truly authentic. The This is Me show is about embracing life, telling the truth, having a laugh and celebrating who we are \u2014 wrinkles, wobbly bits and all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coleen Nolan says she’ll be financially worse off after the sweeping changes being made to ITV’s daytime schedule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,7844,31192,96,3327,347,6692,15673,142397,1471,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cliff-richard","tag-coleen-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-good-morning-britain","tag-itv","tag-loose-women","tag-shane-richie","tag-this-is-me","tag-this-morning","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}