Loose Women will return to having all four presenters in the studio

Loose Women will return to having all four presenters in the studio from next Monday.

The ITV lunchtime chat show has only had three hosts sat on set for the last 13 months – with the fourth joining via video call due to coronavirus restrictions.

But from next week they will have the normal amount of in-studio presenters after revealing on Thursday’s show they are having a new socially-distanced set made.  

Making the announcement alongside Frankie Bridge and Jane Moore, presenter Charlene White said: ‘From Monday, we will be back to four! Yay! It’s been 13 months. 

‘Because it’s the relaxing of the rules, we’re getting a brand new socially-distanced set. 

‘This is especially special for Frankie and I as there are ladies on the team that we’ve never met, like Kelle, we’ve never met in the flesh.’

Frankie then chipped in to say: ‘I feel like I know everyone so well now so it’s going to be nice to actually see them.’  

After Charlene broke the exciting news, confetti began to fall from the ceiling into the studio as the three presenters celebrated. 

Loose Women rotates its presenters daily, with names such as Coleen Nolan, Nadia Sawalha, Janet Street-Porter, Ruth Langsford, Andrea McLean and Brenda Edwards taking to the studio. 

On Wednesday’s episode of Loose Women, Frankie admitted it ‘scares her’ to see how much she needs her antidepressants.

The Saturdays star, 32, admitted she was ‘really emotional and crying all the time’ as she struggled with ‘bad withdrawals’ after forgetting to order more medication.

Frankie told the Loose Women panel she’s ‘sad’ that the issues of mental health are only being discussed because they’ve been heightened during the Covid pandemic, after openly discussing her struggles with anxiety and depression. 

Frankie shared a video revealing her struggles with withdrawal symptoms after being left without her antidepressants over the Easter weekend.

She told Jane Moore, Kaye Adams and Paris Fury that this was the worst side effects she’d ever had from failing to take her medication. 

‘You’d think after all these years of suffering with depression and anxiety that I would’ve learned when I’m near the end I need to reorder my medication,’ Frankie said.

‘I had just so happened to run out of my tablets the day before the bank holiday which meant I couldn’t get them even longer.  

‘I’ve been having withdrawal symptoms, I get dizzy eyes, I feel sick. I’ve done it a few times before stupidly and didn’t get those side effects but this time it really did get me.’

She added: ‘It scares me how much I need them because my mood just plummeted. I was really emotional, I wanted to cry all the time and having to put on that brave face like everything is OK.’