Nadia Sawalha threatens ITV with legal action over Loose Women removal

Nadia Sawalha threatens ITV with legal action over Loose Women removal The controversy, she alleges, prompted ITV to region her connected repeated occasions from the line‑up of its long‑running lunchtime programme. "ITV person continued to instrumentality maine connected and disconnected Loose Women, everlastingly changing the goalposts whilst besides saying they couldn't warrant they wouldn't instrumentality maine disconnected again arsenic it would beryllium connected what was said," she said. Sawalha added that she was "hired for being an opinionated pistillate connected a treatment amusement and I've ne'er brought up oregon spoken astir Palestine straight connected the show". The presenter besides said she wanted to explicit "how bittersweet I americium that it's got to this - judge me, I person appealed to ITV's hearts and minds, but to nary avail". The European Legal Support Center (ELSC), which supports pro-Palestinian cases, has written to ITV connected her behalf, alleging she has been discriminated against due to the fact that of her "anti-Zionist beliefs, which are protected nether the Equality Act 2010". Sawalha has appeared regularly connected the daytime sheet show, which sees 4 pistillate media personalities sermon topical subjects, since 2013. She besides had an earlier stint connected the sheet betwixt 1999 and 2002, soon aft playing Annie Palmer successful EastEnders. Her different TV credits see Casualty and The Bill, and she is besides a erstwhile victor of Celebrity MasterChef.