Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has been on the panel of the ITV show for 26 years
TV host and singer Coleen Nolan has revealed the significant changes coming to Loose Women next year and confessed one element of the overhaul will be particularly difficult for her.
The ITV talk show is relocating to a completely new studio in 2026, and audience members will no longer be in the room whilst filming takes place. For Coleen, who has been part of the Loose Women family for over two decades, the absence of the live crowd will require considerable adjustment.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Star whilst promoting her new tour, Coleen said: “The only thing for me that I will miss the most is the audience. It is going to take me ages to get used to not having them there because I think they really make the show. We bounce off them a bit. But we are not going to have an audience.”
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Coleen has consistently praised the connection between the panel members and maintains the suggestion they do not get along has always been rubbish.
She said: “It has worked for 26 years and people try and take it down all the time. Whether it is the media or social media, which I find really sad. Loose Women gets a really hard time and I do not know why.
“It is basically the only all female show, and now we have incorporated Loose Men too, and we have every age from 20 to 85 on the panel. But they always try to pit us against each other. They say we do not get on, and that could not be further from the truth. They are genuinely like my second family. They are like extra sisters.”
Coleen highlighted that criticism directed at the programme and its presenters is frequently more severe because they are women.
She said: “They do not do it with any male shows. Even when they do the male version Loose Men, they do not get criticised for their weight or how they look or whether they get on backstage. It is always women being targeted. I find it really strange, especially in this day and age when women are fighting for everything.”
Despite the ongoing changes and persistent commentary surrounding the programme, Coleen maintains the Loose Women panel remains as resilient as ever.
She added: “We laugh about it now. Because the show is still going. Whatever they are trying to do, it is not working.”
Beyond her ITV commitments, Coleen is preparing for her 2026 live tour, This Is Me, offering audiences an evening filled with laughter, storytelling, audience Q&As and music.
Tour dates
February 18th – Leeds City Varieties.
February 20th – St Helens Citadel.
February 21st – Gateshead Sage 2.
February 23rd – Apex, Bury St Edmunds.
February 24th – London Union Chapel.
February 25th – Wimborne Tivoli.
February 27th – Manchester RNCM.
Loose Women is on ITV1 and ITVX
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