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TV presenter and singer Coleen Nolan has revealed the significant alterations in store for Loose Women next year and confessed one element of the revamp will be particularly difficult for her.

The ITV discussion programme is relocating to a completely new studio in 2026, and members of the audience will no longer be in the room whilst recording takes place. For Coleen, who has been a member of the Loose Women family for over 20 years, the absence of the live audience will require considerable adjustment.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star. whilst promoting her upcoming tour, Coleen said: "The only thing for me that I will miss the most is the audience. It is going to take me ages to get used to not having them there because I think they really make the show. We bounce off them a bit. But we are not going to have an audience."

Coleen has consistently celebrated the connection between the panellists and maintains the notion they are not friends has always been rubbish.

She said: "It has worked for 26 years and people try and take it down all the time. Whether it is the media or social media, which I find really sad. Loose Women gets a really hard time and I do not know why."

She added: "It is basically the only all female show, and now we have incorporated Loose Men too, and we have every age from 20 to 85 on the panel. But they always try to pit us against each other. They say we do not get on, and that could not be further from the truth. They are genuinely like my second family. They are like extra sisters."

Coleen pointed out that the show and its stars often face harsher criticism because they are women.

She stated: "They do not do it with any male shows. Even when they do the male version Loose Men, they do not get criticised for their weight or how they look or whether they get on backstage. It is always women being targeted. I find it really strange, especially in this day and age when women are fighting for everything."

Despite the constant chatter and changes surrounding the show, Coleen maintains that the Loose Women panel is stronger than ever.

She added: "We laugh about it now. Because the show is still going. Whatever they are trying to do, it is not working."

Aside from her ITV exploits, Coleen is preparing for her 2026 live tour, This Is Me, promising fans an evening filled with laughter, storytelling, audience Q&As and music.

Loose Women is on ITV1 and ITVX

18th February - Leeds City Varieties.

20th February - St Helens Citadel.

21st February - Gateshead Sage 2.

23rd February - Apex, Bury St Edmunds.

24th February - London Union Chapel.

25th February - Wimborne Tivoli.

27th February - Manchester RNCM.