COLEEN Nolan has made a frank admission about her money worries amid ITV’s brutal cuts.
The Loose Women star has opened up about the effects of the cuts that have seen the lunchtime staple slashed to just half the year amid the cost-saving measures.
The slimmed down show no longer has a live studio audience and guests are strictly rationed in an effort to save money.
Now Coleen has opened up about how it has affected her.
Speaking to What’s My Bag podcast, she said: “We’ll only be on during term time now. So all the holidays will be off.
“On one hand, you go ‘quite nice time off’ but then on the other hand, you go ‘I’ve till got bills to pay’.
“It’s just a different vibe, I think it will be okay but I’m just going to miss a lot of different people behind the scenes.
“It will still be live but there will be no audience and I don’t think they are having guests. I just feel like it will be like a podcast but on live television.”
She added: “But, it could have been worse. They could have said, ‘By the way, we’re not recommissioning it. See you later!’ It’s still here, it’s still going.”
The former singer added: “I feel really nervous. I 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 for us.”
However despite the effect on her, Coleen is more focused on those who lost their jobs after spending the best part of two decades with them.
She said: “They’ve all got to find new jobs. So there’s a sadness. I understand that it’s a business, and sometimes in business hard decisions have to be made and nowadays it is all about budgets.
“TV is so different now. I mean, if you think of how many channels there are, the competition… I can’t even count how many channels there are.
“It’s 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!
“When 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.”
Loose Women was first revealed to be undergoing changes at the start of last year amid cuts at ITV daytime.
Both Loose Women and Lorraine were revealed to be airing for just 30 weeks as well as Lorraine being reduced to just 30 minutes in length.
