Loose Women star Ruth Langsford updates fans after being forced to miss the NTAs amid persistent illness
LOOSE Women star Ruth Langsford missed out on the NTAs after battling a persistent illness.
The presenter has a chest infection and cough, which doesn’t seem to be shifting – despite trying plenty of remedies.
Her co-stars represented the show at last night’s National Television Awards, but her absence didn’t go unnoticed.
Loose Women were one of the shows nominated for the Daytime award at the ceremony.
They were piped to the post by The Repair Shop.
Ruth shared a reel of her homemade remedies after she was given recommendations by fans.
She boiled turmeric, ginger, lemon, orange, whiskey, cinnamon and cloves in her kitchen.
Ruth warned followers to be careful when using turmeric as it stains fingers and worktops.
“Thank you to everyone sending me home made remedies for this damn chest infection and cough,” she wrote.
She’s also been sent a care package full of throat pastilles from one company.
The 63-year-old was forced to take time off Loose Women due to her sickness.
Her producers posed beside a cardboard cut out of Ruth, who told them that she was “with them in spirit”.
She has been bedridden, but has been enjoying the company of her dog who she called her “sick bed companion”.
She recently told fans: “My ‘lurgy’ is actually a chest infection! So here I am on antibiotics and a steam vaporiser twice a day!”
Alongside the post, she shared a short clip of the vaporiser in action, before another shortly after showed a box of lemon, ginger leaf and manuka tea with Ruth writing: ‘”I’m trying everything!”
Meanwhile, earlier in the week Ruth told fans that she “had the lurgy”, and was doing her best to get better.
The telly favourite has been a regular on Loose Women since 1999.
She was on our screens until 2002, and rejoined the team for a year in 2010.
Ruth return to Loose Women in 2012 as an anchor.
The popular star made her presenting debut in 1997 on The Really Useful Show, and since then she has mainly worked with ITV.
The exceptions to this include How the Other Half Lives for Channel 5 which she presented with her husband Eamonn and her own QVC segment titled Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit.
She is also known for previously hosting This Morning on a Friday, along with her husband.
NTAs 2023: the winners
Serial Drama
- Coronation Street
- EastEnders – Winner
- Emmerdale
- Hollyoaks
Talent Show
- Britain’s Got Talent
- Strictly Come Dancing – Winner
- The Great British Bake Off
- The Great British Sewing Bee
New Drama
- Beyond Paradise
- Blue Lights
- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- Wednesday – Winner
Daytime
- Loose Women
- The Chase
- The Repair Shop – Winner
- This Morning
Comedy
- Brassic
- Ghosts
- Ted Lasso
- Young Sheldon – Winner
Authored Documentary
- Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Own Words
- Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now – Winner
- Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
- Rob Burrow: Living with MND
Rising Star
- Benjamin Chivers (Isaac, The Devil’s Hour)
- Bobby Brazier (Freddie Slater, EastEnders) – Winner
- Channique Sterling-Brown (Dee-Dee Bailey, Coronation Street)
- Lewis Cope (Nicky Milligan, Emmerdale)
Factual
- Clarkson’s Farm
- Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs – Winner
- Sort Your Life Out
- The Martin Lewis Money Show Live
TV Presenter
- Alison Hammond
- Ant & Dec – Winner
- Bradley Walsh
- Claudia Winkleman
- Martin Lewis
Quiz Game Show
- Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
- Richard Osman’s House of Games
- The 1% Club – Winner
- The Chase Celebrity Special
Drama Performance
- Brenda Blethyn (DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera)
- India Amarteifio (Young Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story)
- James Norton (Tommy Lee Royce, Happy Valley)
- Judy Parfitt (Sister Monica Joan, Call the Midwife)
- Sarah Lancashire (Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley) – Winner
Serial Drama Performance
- Charlotte Jordan (Daisy Midgeley, Coronation Street)
- Danielle Harold (Lola Pearce-Brown, EastEnders) – Winner
- Dominic Brunt (Paddy Kirk, Emmerdale)
- Maureen Lipman (Evelyn Plummer, Coronation Street)
TV Interview
- Louis Theroux Interviews…
- Piers Morgan Uncensored
- The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show
- The Graham Norton Show – Winner
Reality Competition
- Love Island
- Race Across the World
- SAS: Who Dares Wins
- The Traitors – Winner
Returning Drama
- Call the Midwife
- Happy Valley – Winner
- Stranger Things
- Vera
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
- Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
- Gogglebox – Winner
- I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
- The Masked Singer
Special Recognition
Sarah Lancashire