Carol McGiffin apparently departed Loose Women following a public Covid-19 outburst.
Carol said during a conversation on TNT talk radio that she believed the epidemic was a World Health Organisation ploy to destabilise states.
According to the Daily Mail, the 63-year-old stated that the government was ‘conspiring to brainwash the population, triggering a major mental health collapse, after being “bought off by the Government”‘.
Carol also accused Health Secretary Matt Hancock of moving patients from France to fill vacancies in UK hospitals.
According to the magazine, this sparked a response in which many called ITV to demand her firing.
Carol appeared on the show as a panellist from 2000 until 2013, before returning in 2018. She acknowledged her departure but stated that it was due to a contractual issue.
‘The problem was, ITV were insisting, for the first time since I went back in 2018, that if I wanted to carry on doing the show, I would have to sign a contract that was totally unjust and unworkable for me, so I had to say ‘no thanks,’” she wrote in Best magazine.
She added that she’s been ‘quite upset about it’, and said it was a decision she was ‘forced to make’.
‘No one in their right mind would have signed that contract,’ she continued. ‘And I can’t see a way back from it.’
Her co-stars, on the other hand, have shown their support by posting messages on Instagram.
Brenda Edwards commented: ‘Carol, I always enjoy when you are on as we have such a laugh, but you of course must always do what is best for you! I really hope I get to see you again love you lots lovely lady. Keep Smiling.’
Denise Welch also shared she was ‘gutted’, while Carol’s regular sparring partner Nadia Sawahla said: ‘Miss you smelly poo! Even though we disagreed on most things you’ve always made me laugh my head off!’