Nadia Sawalha has opened up on the Loose Women cuts after ITV budgets were slashed (Image: Getty)

Nadia Sawalha was in tears as she reflected on how colleagues will be made redundant, after Loose Women’s schedule was cut to just 30 weeks per year. Now Nadia has opened up about the ITV cuts in a new YouTube video, explaining she fears being the show’s next casualty.

In a tearful rant, she urged fans to be “f*****g kind”, warning that huge “suffering” was taking place behind the scenes. Accompanied by her husband Mark, she exclaimed: “Do you know what? At the moment, all of us on screen are in work and are proud of what we do – but behind the scenes there are people that are really suffering. What you don’t realise is when you attack the show you attack them, because you never see all the army of people behind the scenes and how hard they work.”

Nadia Sawalha and partner Mark discussed the issue on YouTube (Image: YOUTUBE)

She added that her Loose Women colleagues were “numb with shock and fear” over the cuts, and were wondering if the cuts would affect them too.

“To all my friends and colleagues behind the scenes who have just got a huge shock out of the blue, I’m so sorry,” she exclaimed.

“Mark knows how upset I’ve been at home about it. I just can’t bear it, so just be f*****g kind to people.”

Nadia continued that she felt her position was extra-precarious as a self-employed person meaning that she “could be let go” at any time.

Nadia Sawalha told of how much her ITV role means to her (Image: Getty)

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“Every contract is a new contract. I could be let go tomorrow, in five years, you don’t know because we’re not employees – I can’t tell you anything accept I am on for my next contract,” she declared.

“What has been brutal over the past week and I am getting tearful about it, is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue.”

She added: “That has been so awful. It has been worse than whatever trolls have been saying about our show that we feel really protective of.”

However, a source confirmed to The Mirror: “We are not planning any radical changes to the panel. All of our Loose Women are hugely valued and we celebrate each and every one and the experience and opinions they bring to the show every day.

“Many of our long standing panellists have appeared on the show for the majority of its 25 year run on screens and those stalwart, Loose legends are at the core of the show’s success and hugely popular with the audience.”