Christine Lampard issued a plea to viewers to 'come and join' Loose Women after it was announced the the ITV panel show will finally welcome back a studio audience for the first time over two years
And her appeal had such a huge reaction that the show's website crashed within minutes due to huge demand for tickets.
It was back at the start of 2020, that the lunchtime panel shows last welcomed fans into watch as camera rolled, before Covid hit and the country went into its first major lockdown of the pandemic. At the height of the restrictions, the Loose Women panel was limited on numbers, with at least one star forced to appear from home every episode.
The show's line-up has been back at full capacity for a year now, but, one thing that has never returned is an audience. Unlike other ITV programmes like Saturday Night Takeaway and Dancing on Ice, which welcomed full audience again this year, the only audience the Loose Women pan el have had is their crew.
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However, after Christine teased there was a big announcement at the start of Wednesday's show, the moment arrived half an hour in to let the cat out the bag, with Coleen Nolan having the job of confirming that Loose Women will welcome fans into the studio again from the start of September.
After Coleen broke the news, Christine said: "We’ve actually really missed having a studio audience. It’s just us here, it’ll be so lovely to see you all coming back."
She added: "We want to get as many of you as possible to fill up this studio from early September. It's a chance to meet all of us and of course you can have a little sneak peek behind the scenes; the bits you don't get to see on the telly."
As Christine spoke details of how to apply for the free Loose Women audience tickets flashed up on screen and then, later on in the show, the host reported that there'd been so much interest that the website had crashed."
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