{"id":43383,"date":"2025-08-04T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43383\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:09:11","slug":"kate-garraway-awkwardly-jokes-about-being-fired-from-good-morning-britain-after-itv-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43383\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Garraway awkwardly jokes about ‘being fired’ from Good Morning Britain after ITV cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kate Garraway<\/a> awkwardly joked about being \u2018fired\u2019 from Good Morning Britain<\/a> on Monday, as a guest made jibes about the cuts at ITV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old TV presenter was helming the flagship news programme alongside Ed Balls<\/a> to kick off the week, with Louie Spence in the studio off the back of his dismal turn in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old choreographer discussed his decision to quit the gruelling reality show<\/a> in the first episode of filming, revealing he had never actually watched the programme before appearing on it.<\/p>\n

At the end of the interview, Spence complimented Garraway on her voluminous blonde hair and asked why she had never done an advert for hair products, adding: \u2018Every morning I watch you and think \u2018she\u2019s worth it\u2019,\u2019 he said while mimicking a hair flip with his bald head.<\/p>\n

Garraway then explained that she is not \u2018allowed\u2019 to endorse products with brand deals, given that it\u2019s a conflict of interest with their impartiality as news journalists.<\/p>\n

Spence then became faux outraged and referred to the huge upcoming shake-up of ITV\u2019s daytime TV slate<\/a> as it looks to make money-saving cuts.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tLouie Spence was in the studio to discuss SAS (Picture: Jed Bradley\/ITV)<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Kate
\n\t\tGarraway laughed in the studio at the ITV gags (Picture: Jed Bradley\/ITV)<\/p>\n

Spence joked: \u2018How dare they? What\u2019s going on? They\u2019re cutting Lorraine, the Loose Women are being cut, what\u2019s going on? This place is going to wrack and ruin.\u2019<\/p>\n

Garraway awkwardly laughed in the studio, but intervened to explain: \u2018I work in news and we are religiously, despite what people think, impartial, so you don\u2019t endorse anything.\u2019<\/p>\n

She then joked: \u2018When they fire me Louie, which is probably right now for talking too much, I\u2019ll go and do one.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spence replied: \u2018I\u2019ll say strap in darling, because everyone\u2019s being cut.\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWhat has ITV said about the cuts?\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV\u2019s Media and Entertainment Division, explained the changes in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u2018Daytime is a really important part of what we do, and these scheduling and production changes will enable us to continue to deliver a schedule providing viewers with the news, debate and discussion they love from the presenters they know and trust as well generating\u00a0savings<\/a>\u00a0which will allow us to reinvest across the programme budget in other genres.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018These changes also allow us to consolidate our news operations and expand our national, international and regional news output and to build upon our proud history of trusted journalism at a time when our viewers need accurate, unbiased news coverage more than ever.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tGarraway explained she\u2019s not allowed to endorse products (Picture: Jed Bradley\/ITV)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tGood Morning Britain is part of the upcoming ITV shake-up (Picture: Jed Bradley\/ITV)<\/p>\n

ITV earlier this year announced that Lorraine will no longer be one hour long as they cut the show\u2019s run-time in half. The announcement from ITV stated that the show will also run on a \u2018seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year\u2019 rather than throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Like Lorraine, Loose Women has also been cut down to a 30-week schedule, taking up the \u2018seasonal\u2019 schedule it operated on until 2016.<\/p>\n

Loose Women has retained its normal slot in the daily diary, continuing to take place on weekdays from 12:30pm to 1pm.<\/p>\n

It was announced that these major changes will be enforced in January 2026.<\/p>\n

It was added that Good Morning Britain (GMB) will now run from 6am to 9:30am, filling the half-hour slot originally held by Lorraine.<\/p>\n

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.<\/p>\n

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