Lorraine Kelly insists ‘I'm not done yet' after ITV slashes her show by 30mins and takes it off air for half the year
NOT TOAST Lorraine Kelly insists 'I'm not done yet' after ITV slashes her show by 30mins and takes it off air for half the year
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LORRAINE Kelly has insisted that she's 'not done yet' after ITV slashed her daytime show by 30 minutes.
The legendary breakfast TV host has broken her silence after the commercial broadcaster announced its daytime massacre.
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Lorraine Kelly has insisted that she is 'not done yet'
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ITV announced sweeping changes across its daytime programming
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The broadcaster slashed her time on air as she will no longer present for 22 weeks
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Lorraine, 65, has been appearing on ITV breakfast screens for over four decades.
She joined the original breakfast TV station TV-am in 1994 as its Scotland Correspondent.
When the Camden-based company lost its licence, she was one of only a few stars who made the switch to GMTV in 1993.
Since then she has been a mainstay fixture on ITV screens in various iterations of the morning format.
However, the commercial network has announced sweeping changes to its daytime output.
From January, Lorraine will only take to the airwaves for 30 weeks of the year and for only half an hour at a time.
Following the announcement, fears rose that the veteran presenter could quit the channel entirely.
However, she insisted that she was not quite done yet when she spoke to Tom Kerridge on the Proper Tasty podcast.
"I've been doing telly for over 40 years. It's mad isn't it? It's absolutely crazy," Lorraine remarked.
"I started in breakfast telly in 1984, and I'm still getting away with it. Extraordinarily.
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"40 years in TV last year was incredible. I got a BAFTA. "Here's a BAFTA for being alive." I thought, "Hang on a minute, I'm not done yet".'
However, the star did allude that she likes to do different projects away from her
She continued: "Not so much in the morning, but if I do a wee show on Channel 4, or The Last Leg, or something like that. You can be unleashed. And I quite like that.
"You do have to have a self-edit button, and I'm finding mine is not operating as much as it should.
ITV's daytime TV schedule changes in full
Good Morning Britain will be extended by 30 minutes to run from 6am to 9.30am daily.
Lorraine will run from 9.30am-10am, on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year.
During the weeks Lorraine is not on air, Good Morning Britain will run from 6am to 10am.
This Morning will remain in its 10am-12.30pm slot on weekdays throughout the year.
Loose Women will be in the 12.30-1.30pm slot, again on a seasonal basis for 30 weeks of the year.
The changes will take effect from January 2026.
Lorraine added: "So, when I'm sitting there and I look at something and I think, "Gosh, what an absolute k**b that person is," or how silly they are, I say it and I don't realise I've said it. So I have to watch."
This comes after it was reported that Lorraine had refused an 'insulting offer' from bosses to sign a new contract.
A source explained that she declined the opportunity to merge her daytime show with Good Morning Britain, and was 'prepared to walk away.'
A new role titled 'Head of Lorraine' has also been created to oversee the daytime changes, but the contract only lasts for 12-months.
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Lorraine's show was cut to just 30minutes of running time
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