Loose Women star Kaye Adams has admitted that she felt “ashamed” for lying about her age to her daughter.
The presenter celebrated her 60th birthday with her co-hosts Coleen Nolan, Kelle Bryan and Denise Welch on Wednesday’s instalment of the lunchtime stalwart.
The Strictly Come Dancing star was reflecting on entering a new decade when she said her daughter Charley, now 20, only discovered her real age when her mother turned 50.
“You really had a serious block about admitting how old you were to the point your kids thought you were 10 years younger,” fellow panellist Welch asked her.
To which Adams replied: “I feel ashamed about it now actually. It developed over the years.”
“It started off as a joke and I guess I was an older mum and I was conscious of the younger mums at the school gates,” she recalled.
“The kids always want to know what age you are compared to the other mums and I might have slipped out a little lie and then I kept it going and I kept it going.
“I actually did have to at some point take Charley, my eldest, to a café after school and sit down and confess that her mummy was actually 10 years older than I’d told her.”
Reflecting on how her daughter took the news, Adams admitted that Charley was left a “little crestfallen” by the truth but decided to keep her age a secret to everyone else.
“Her little face fell,” she reminisced. “She wasn’t cross but she was upset and I felt an absolute horror for doing it because for me, it was hilarious, I thought it was really, really funny but she looked a little crestfallen.
“That’s a shame. I thought, ‘I’ll tell you the truth’, but I’ll tell the rest of the world a lie. It just one of those things, my mum was the same.
“I know it was bonkers.”
The ITV star appeared on the recent instalment of Strictly where she was partnered with British pro Kai Widdrington.
She became the first celebrity to leave the ballroom after she found herself in the dance-off against Matt Goss.
