LOOSE Ladies’s Saira Khan has stop the ITV daytime present in order that she will be able to “deal with what’s essential”.
The choice comes shortly after Andrea McLean broke down in tears as she announced her own departure from the programme in November.
Saira has stop Unfastened LadiesCredit score: Rex Options
The 50-year-old star joined the panel in 2015, after taking pictures to fame on The Apprentice.
Writing in her column for The Mirror, Saira defined that she wished to “assess her priorities” within the new 12 months.
The mum-of-two admitted that the continuing coronavirus pandemic was a think about her choice, as she’s realised what’s “actually essential”.
Saira mentioned: “It’d actually made me assess my priorities, values and the way I wish to transfer ahead with my life.”
The star has been on the panel for 5 yearsCredit score: Rex Options
The star is ‘assessing her priorities’ within the new 12 monthsCredit score: Rex Options
“So I begin this new 12 months by saying goodbye to Loose Women.
“After 5 years of being a daily panellist, I’ve determined to surrender my seat to a different girl who will profit from the platform as I did.”
Saira went on to confess that whereas it was a “tough choice” she felt that she had “nothing left to share” on the programme.
The star added: “Others too have discovered that Covid has given them the kick they wanted to stop jobs that don’t carry them satisfaction, and to attempt one thing new.”
Saira with the remainder of the Unfastened girlsCredit score: Getty Photographs – Getty
Andrea, 51, was left unable to speak on her final Loose Women show last month – which aired shortly earlier than Christmas.
She’d beforehand sobbed as she introduced the information to viewers stay on air one month earlier.
Andrea reflected on having a nervous breakdown final 12 months as she defined her choice, praising ITV for his or her help as she insisted that it was solely her personal alternative to go away.
The star shared on the time: “So many individuals are speaking about how they can not wait for all times to get again to regular and I sat and did that, I assumed: ‘Do I would like my life to return to the conventional it was earlier than?’
Andrea left the present final month
“Final 12 months I had a nervous breakdown and what I felt was this 12 months, collectively, the world had a breakdown and the expertise I had signifies that this 12 months I used to be mentally actually robust to cope with every thing that the pandemic threw at us.”
Andrea continued: “However it made me cease and assume: ‘What do I truly need?’ If there may be something that may present us you solely get one life…
“Are you residing it the best way you need? Doing every thing you wish to do? Being courageous and taking probabilities? And I realised no.”
The star then turned visibly choked up as she burst into tears, saying: “I did not assume I used to be going to cry, however I will be leaving quickly.”
