Nadia Sawalha: ‘I got in trouble’ Loose Women star on being told off for her language

Nadia Sawalha, 54, was one of the original presenters when Loose Women first launched back in 1999.

And over the years, the ITV favourite has shared many anecdotes and aired her opinions with viewers.

But the star recalled one time, one of her daughters told her off for what she said on the show despite her years of experience.

Talking to Express.co.uk about getting into trouble on the show, Nadia said: “We are talking about men and female toilets being mixed and I said I hate them.

“I don’t want to walk into a toilet and see a wanger when I’m going to the loo.”

Explaining what happened after the show, Nadia spilled: “My daughter, she heard it as something different.”

Laughing about the memory, Nadia said people were telling her daughter she had said a different rude word which sounds very similar.

“Everyone was telling my daughter like ‘your mum said this’, which isn’t what I actually said!”

She added: “But I still got in trouble.”

Nadia, who has teamed up with WaterAid to get people talking openly about periods, also heaped praise on her co-star, Stacey Solomon, who had a baby boy, Rex, with her partner Joe Swash three weeks ago.

Praising Stacey’s fresh and honest approach about being a mother on social media, Nadia complimented: “On social media she’s just authentic and true and she’s greatly loved by all of us and her fans,” she said.

“She’s also in the best way a really strong woman, she’s very smart.”

Nadia said she “loves” it when people “underestimate Stacey” as she said they do it at their “peril”.

“She’s a very smart cookie and a real Loose Women, that’s what I love about her,” she divulged.

Meanwhile, Nadia has starred in a video, Peaky Bleeders, as part of a campaign to get more people talking about periods to tackle the stigma and calls for the needs of women to be met.

Speaking about the issue, Nadia spilled: “I was unaware of the whole period poverty thing, I was ashamed that I didn’t know the extent of it.

“When you think of it globally in developing countries, people not going to school because they’re on their period, that’s crazy.”

She went on: “I want young women to feel proud of it, when my girls started theirs, I was like yes! I wanted to throw a party.!”

“There’s a frightening amount of people who have period and they don’t know what it is, in this country,” she added.

Nadia is supporting WaterAid’s campaign to get people talking openly about periods. Watch the film at: wateraid.org/uk/nadia.

Loose Women airs weekdays on ITV at 12.30pm.

source: express.co.uk