Overview

• ITV will cut Loose Women’s studio audience and limit the show to 30 weeks a year beginning January 2026.
• Lee Peart, the programme’s warm-up comedian since 2017, will lose his role due to the audience axing.
• Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams have voiced deep concern and sleepless nights over the impact on staff and the show’s atmosphere.
• The audience removal forms part of a broader daytime overhaul that also halves Lorraine’s airtime and extends Good Morning Britain to 9:30am.
• Over 220 production roles are under review as ITV consolidates teams and relocates operations to central London to meet budget targets.