Stacey Solomon’s Loose Women future revealed after 18 month absence as co-star breaks her silence
STACEY Solomon’s future as a Loose Women panelist has been revealed by one of her co-stars.
Stacey, 34, stepped back from the ITV daytime show 18 months ago as she prepared to give birth to her daughter Belle.
The star has since made a fleeting return to Loose Women for a couple of appearances last year, but she has otherwise been AWOL.
And sadly for fans of the show, it appears Stacey will not be making a big return as a regular panelist any time soon.
Stacey’s Loose Women co-star Linda Robson, 66, has revealed that she is ‘too busy’ to come back to the job full-time.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Birds Of A Feather legend Linda said: “She’s not going to be a regular anymore? I don’t think so, but you never know.
“I would love her to come back, she’s a really good Loose Woman – she’s really honest. But I think she’s got too much on.
“She’s got her own series and her and Joe are out in their little house. She’s still really welcome but she’s just so busy.”
Stacey first joined the Loose Women panel in 2016 and she quickly became a firm favourite among fans.
But in December 2022, she decided to bow out and take a break.
Stacey and her husband Joe Swash‘s youngest child, Belle, arrived two months later and her diary was already brimming with other work commitments.
In the first year of Belle’s life, Stacey found herself travelling around the country to film her two TV shows – Sort Your Life Out for the BBC and Renovation Rescue on Channel 4.
In November last year, Stacey made a brief return to Loose Women for one episode and explained her absence to viewers.
She said: “It’s been crazy because Belle was a wonderful surprise, but what that meant was that I had to fit my filming schedule into a very short period of time.
” I’ve just been up and down the country with Sort Your Life Out and filming another show so I haven’t been able to even get into town.”
Stacey also told her co-stars Kaye Adams, Judi Love and Katie Piper that she was “so happy” to be back on the show and that it had been like “therapy” for her.
But although viewers were thrilled to have her back, fears about Stacey leaving Loose Women for good had already grown within weeks.
Just one month later, she made another brief return.
The episode just so happened to be on the same day as the Loose Women Christmas party, but Stacey didn’t hang around.
The mum-of-five instead made a swift exit and headed home before the bash got underway.