ITV News star Mary Nightingale addresses emotional on-air moment ‘Makes my voice go'

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ITV Evening News since 2001 and became the programme’s sole presenter in 2017. But despite her vast experience, the 58-year-old presenter admitted she sometimes feels like crying while delivering the news.Speaking to Radio Times, Mary confessed that during the coronavirus pandemic her voice “failed” her while reading out the tragic death figures.She explained: “I do feel like crying sometimes but I don’t think it’s helpful.“The effort of trying not to cry often makes my voice go.“During the pandemic, while reading out death figures every day and some of the very sad, difficult stories, my voice slightly failed me sometimes, almost like it didn’t want to say the words.”ITV News underwent a significant shakeup earlier this year after it was announced it would be doubled in length in the evenings from 30 minutes to an hour.The move will see the programme move to a new slot ‑ from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.It also means that Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be pushed back to later times too.The new, longer bulletins are set to start this month.ITV said the expansion will "bolster the key programmes in its pre-9pm schedule”.The extended news programme will clash with The One Show on the BBC, at 7pm.ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, Kevin Lygo, described the revamp as an “investment” for the broadcaster.He said: "As viewing habits rapidly change, live audiences to our national and international news programmes remain remarkably strong."Our evening news programme reached an impressive 35.6 million viewers in 2021.“We are very excited to be announcing this investment in what is an important public service strength of ITV ‑ high-quality, impartial, trusted broadcast journalism ‑ at a time when it could not be more.