LOOSE Women’s Carol McGiffin has confessed she’s walked away from the TV industry forever as she fuelled rumours of backstage feuds with her former panellists.
The 66-year-old quit TV just two years ago after stepping down from Loose Women in 2023.
Carol refused a new contract, which led to her departure from the ITV show for the second time.
Speaking on Best magazine’s Suddenly Single podcast, Carol said: “It’s too difficult to work in television anymore. So, I don’t want to go back.
“Not just to Loose Women. I’ve just got no interest in being on mainstream TV. Not that anyone would employ me.”
Controversial Carol has sparked rumours of bitter feuds with her former Loose Women panellists.
While she denied the rumours saying, “there was no conflict and no problem,” Carol admitted they “didn’t like what she said.”
The TV star said: “Obviously I didn’t get on with some panellists as well as I did others, and I’m much closer to the panellists I’ve known the longest.
“A lot of the time, especially when Covid started they didn’t like what I was saying and they particularly didn’t like that I refused to get the vaccine.”
She continued: “I wouldn’t say I didn’t like some of them. You know, some of them were just people that were very different to me and I just didn’t have anything in common with them, so we wouldn’t have gone to lunch or anything.”
Ex-radio host Carol previously told how she had “no regrets” over her decision to leave the daytime TV show.
Carol admitted she once loved the job but quit because she felt as though she no longer “fit in” on the panel, having to tone down some of her opinions.
She later claimed the show had gone “very, very woke” as her exit was linked to her controversial conspiracy linked comments around the coronavirus pandemic.
She told OK! magazine back in 2024 : “It was once a great job. It doesn’t really have many alternative opinions now. And I do watch it occasionally to remind myself that I made the right decision.
“I don’t regret leaving – I don’t fit in there anymore. Someone, somewhere will be offended by absolutely everything. I’d rather not be on a show that panders to that.”
Carol was known for her strong opinions and often appeared to take aim at her fellow panellists.
In one episode, she slammed Ruth Langsford and Kaye Adams for considering getting tattoos over the age of 60.
Carol also clashed with Brenda Edwards live on air as she fumed it was unfair for colleagues who don’t have children to pick up the slack for working mothers.
The ITV star joined Loose Women in 2000 alongside fellow original panellists Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha and Jane Moore.
