Andrea McLean was ‘scared’ to leave Loose Women

OHMYGOSSIP — Andrea McLean was “scared” to leave ‘Loose Women.’
The 52-year-old presenter had been a regular anchor on the ITV lunchtime chat show since 2007 and made the decision to leave towards the end of 2020 in order to focus on her online community but admitted the quitting her daytime TV job was scary.
She said: “When I announced I was leaving, I felt scared. I wanted to do something for my website community, This Girl Is On Fire, because they’d just joined but I was putting down train tracks with the train coming behind me. I came up with a challenge for about 200 women over a private Facebook group, designed to get them out of their comfort zone. Some results were instant and others happened a few months later, and that’s become my new book.”
The former GMTV weathergirl – who presented ‘Loose Women’ in rotation with the likes of Christine Lampard, Kaye Adams and Ruth Langsford but was ultimately replaced by newsreader Charlene White – went on to explain that while she is not in touch with all of her former co-stars since quitting the show, it was so “good” to go back onto the panel as a guest earlier this month.
She told Metro Newspaper’s Sixty Seconds column: “[I’m not in touch with] everybody but that’s the same as anyone who works in an office. Even when I was there, we didn’t really go out very often because we live all over the country but there’s texting and messaging, and it was so good to go back on as a guest recently.”
Andrea also explained that she plans to write more books since leaving behind her career in television and revealed that she only ended up on-screen because she “misread” an advert.
She said: “Writing is my first love and why I moved to London to go to journalism college. I misread a job advert that turned out to be working as a weather presenter for the Weather Channel. I ignored the ‘onscreen presence’ bit and certainly didn’t have a showreel. But I got it. From there I went to GMTV in 1996 and left in 2020 so I finally feel like I’m back doing what I originally wanted to do.”
Andrea’s latest book – ‘You Just Need To Believe It: 10 Ways In 10 Days To Unlock Your Courage And Reclaim Your Power’ is out now.

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