Kaye Adams, who turned 61 this week, doesn’t really do New Year resolutions, but she might make an exception in 2024. “Firstly, I’m going to have fun and secondly, I’m reimagining my sixties – I’m thinking of making that my next book,” she tells us. “It really gets to me that I can’t think of a single sports or fitness brand with women of 50+ featured in its advertising, never mind 60 and beyond.They’re missing a massive market. “I’m in the best shape of my life and I’m not alone – why are we invisible?” The Scottish TV and radio broadcaster, who has been a stalwart of Loose Women for nearly 25 years apart from a break when she had her second daughter, is used to the commentary that comes with being in the spotlight.
Rumours of behind-the-scenes rows come up on a regular basis, which has Kaye rolling her eyes. “We’re like any group of workmates with different personalities, but practically every day we’ll have a good laugh together,” she says. “It’s so boring to be asked if we have a go at each other, especially since it’s a question that men never get asked.
We find it funny – can’t someone come up with an original question?” She adds that the Loose Women presenters enjoy regular nights out, while she and Nadia Sawalha are really close despite not warming to each other initially. “We were working together so we had to be civil but truly, we weren’t that keen on each other,” she reveals. “Then we just clicked and that was us, on the same wavelength.
We stay at each other’s homes, go on holiday, bicker about anything and everything. She even taught me how to cook – my family will testify how dreadful my cooking was – and we wrote a cookery book together.” This summer, for the first time, the Loose Women team went on the.
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