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ITV Loose Women statement on Stacey Solomon after fans raise concerns

A representative of ITV talk show Loose Women has made a statement after fans raised concerns popular presenter Stacey Solomon would no longer be part of the programme.

ITV recently posted an image online its Loose Woman and This Morning stars for International Women's Day, which falls on March 8 this year.

It included some of the channel's biggest stars such as Alison Hammond and Holly Willoughby, however, Stacey was absent from the image, Manchester Evening News reports.

A photo posted on the Loose Women and This Morning Instagram pages read: "After almost two years apart, the female hosts of Daytime are coming together to celebrate International Women's Day!

"Watch the special video, filmed earlier this month, on the This Morning app now."

The photo included all the current Loose Women, Josie Gibson, Rochelle Humes, Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Ranvir Singh and Charlotte Hawkins.

However, the comment section was flooded with hundreds of comments worried about Stacey Solomon's whereabouts.

Some fans were worried that Stacey's absence meant she had been sacked from the show.

Taking to the comment section, one user asked: "Where's Stacey Solomon?"

"Where's Stacey Solomon?" said somebody else.

"Beautiful pic but Where's stacey x," another wrote.

Another added: "Lovely photo but I'm gunna say they were photo shopped together and yes where is Stacey Stacey Solomon?"

A few also asked where fellow Loose Women panellist Judi Love was.

A representative for the talk show said: "Stacey was still on maternity leave when the shoot took place."

It is still unknown where Judi was during the photo shoot.

Stacey and partner Joe Swash welcomed their first daughter, Rose, on her birthday in October.

Sharing the first glimpse of her newborn at the time, Stacey wrote: "So to my family on here. Yesterday I got the best birthday present I could have wished for."

Three months later, the star returned to work but complained that her time off was too short.

Sharing an adorable video of her feeding her baby on Instagram, Stacey read out a question from a fan that said: "Why do you only get three months maternity leave?"

The Loose Women host replied: "So many of you are messaging me, I know it's not long enough. I could be in this bubble forever.

"But I've got one of those weird jobs and you never know if you're going to get work or not and nothing is guaranteed, so you've just got to make the most of any opportunity that comes along.

"Also a lot of my contracts are 12 months that I squeezed into nine months so I could have the three months off and I don't think I could squeeze them into any less."

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