Loose Woman star SLAMS show and reveals real reason she left – naming the only four stars she still speaks to
A FORMER Loose Women star has slammed the daytime TV show and has confessed she only speaks to four of her former colleagues.
The TV star was a regular member of the ITV panel for five years but quit the show with immediate effect in 2020.
Now, Saira Khan has admitted she would ‘never’ go back to the hit show after growing “bored” of speaking about her private life on TV.
The former The Apprentice runner-up also admitted that whilst she never had a “falling out” with her co-stars, there are only four that she has stayed in touch with.
Saira admitted she was still in contact with Andrea McLean, Ruth Langsford, Denise Welch and Coleen Nolan but had snubbed staying pals with the rest of the women.
Addressing her relationships with her former co-stars in a new interview, Saira said: “I recently went out with Ruth [Langsford] to go and see Coleen [Nolan] on her solo tour in Blackpool.
“I keep in touch with Andrea [McLean] and Denise [Welch].
“I know people think I fell out with them all, but it wasn’t about the girls, it was more about me to be honest with you.”
She added to Woman’s Own that she became ‘uncomfortable’ with certain aspects of the panel programme which prompted her to make a quick exit.
Saira told the publication: “It was more about me growing up and saying, ‘Look, this is what I like, and this is what I don’t like,’ and some of the things that go on, I was just not comfortable with it, and I think you have to be honest with it.
“It doesn’t mean you’re falling out, it just means it’s not enough for me.”
Saira recently returned to TV with a slow on the panel of Jeremy Vine‘s self-titled Channel 5 programme where she admitted she felt much more at home.
Taking a further swipe at Loose Women, she said: “I wouldn’t go back to Loose Women – I’ve done that and I think I’ve come out of it realising I want to move forward, and I want to do things that I really enjoy.
“Also, Jeremy Vine gives me space to talk about politics as well as just talking about my private life and who I am. I think people can get a bit bored of that, and the same subjects.
“I also like the diversity of it, and that it’s not just all females – there’s men and women, and I quite like that.
“It’s a bit more real life, and you can have a bit more laughter.”
Saira first joined Loose Women in September 2015 before walking out of the programme in March 2020.
She had previously claimed that she quit with immediate effect when she was asked to set up an OnlyFans account for a PR stunt around the lunchtime programme.
She told the Mirror: “The straw that broke the camel’s back was when one of the young producers was sent running after me to ask whether I would be prepared to open an OnlyFans account.”
A disgusted Saira went on: “I could see she herself was mortified to ask me. I replied, ‘You’re asking an Asian woman who has a husband and kids and comes from a Muslim family to open an OnlyFans account?”
She claimed bosses asked her to join the X-rated site to create noise around the programme and that her name was put forward as she had previously posed in her underwear on Instagram.
Bosses at Loose Women denied that she was ever asked to join the site on behalf of the show and rejected claims that she was pressured to take part in campaigns she was uncomfortable with.