"Loose Women Faces Turmoil as Behind-the-Scenes Revelations Threaten to Split the Cast and End the Show"

On camera, they’re all smiles and, despite the occasional heated debates on screen, claim to be one big family behind the scenes.

But after Loose Women was , alleging rife in-fighting and backstage bitching, insiders have told how the scandal has left relations between the panellists are at an all time low – and it could end the long-running daytime juggernaut for good.

Tensions on Loose Women are understood to be at an all time high – and it’s been made worse after Denise Welch’s twitter row Credit: Rex Coleen Nolan’s former manager has made some shocking claims on social media about what really happens on the hit show Credit: Rex

The hornet’s nest was stirred up last week when, a showbiz agent who has previously represented show star , claimed on X that several of the women referred to former show moderator as

After getting into a war of words with on the platform after Denise told her to ‘get help’, Melanie then doubled down, claiming that the women have formed various splinter groups away from the main cast one where they slag each other off.

“[There are] at least 3 cliques, and I’ve got screenshots from them from when some of the clients used to send me stuff to show me what was going on,” Melanie insisted.

As a result, we’re told the atmosphere on is at rock bottom, with many of the women fearing Melanie will expose these screenshots, while others no longer feel they can trust their co-stars and are constantly questioning if they’re being slagged off behind their back.

A show insider tells The Sun: The trust is totally gone. Everyone assumes they’re being slagged off the second they leave the room and honestly, they usually are.

“Old grudges are coming back with a vengeance too. Stuff that happened years ago is suddenly front and centre again, and no one’s letting anything go.

“Melanie knew everything. She was in the middle of it all and trusted with all of it – the secrets, the affairs, who hated who.

“For her to start talking now has created this big fear of what comes next. Everyone’s thinking, ‘Am I going to be exposed?’ Melanie has been talking for some time about working on her autobiography which will spill all her industry secrets, and Loose Women will be front and centre of that. It’s created the worst paranoia.

Melanie is a showbiz agent and also a bestselling author Credit: Getty Melanie claimed some of the women referred to Andrea McLean as ‘Blandrea’ Credit: Rex Insiders say the women don’t know who to trust following the revelations Credit: Rex Janet Street-Porter has been on the show since 2011 Credit: Rex Features

“The truth is, what Melanie said was spot on and she knows a lot more than what she has said so far. Mel said that there were these catty WhatsApp groups, but the reality is actually far more brutal than a bit of bitching.

The women absolutely rip each other to shreds on WhatsApp. It’s really savage. Careers, looks, relationships… nothing is off limits.

“I don’t want to name names, but let’s just say, some of the women absolutely hate each other and refuse to work together – that’s how bad it is. You can tell who really hates who by who never appears on the same show.

“Half of them sit there on-air pretending to be best mates when, minutes before, they’ve been tearing each other apart in private chats.”

Ruth Langsford is believed to be one of the more popular members of the cast Credit: Rex Olivia Attwood is one of the newer members of the panel Credit: Rex

When contacted by The Sun, a repfor the show strenuously denied any such issues between the panel.

An ITV spokesperson said: “This is simply untrue. All of our Loose Women are hugely valued, with seven generations across the panel, the experiences and opinions they bring to the show are celebrated daily as the ladies continue to lead the conversation on the topics that matter most to viewers.”

But our source insists there was a big shift earlier this year when various behind the scenes changes took place on the production team due to the sweeping daytime cuts.

“Losing their old editor Sally Shelford was the worst thing to happen to them because she was the only thing holding that show together,” explains our source.

“She knew exactly who couldn’t stand each other and kept them apart very smoothly and gracefully but now it’s complete chaos and people like Melanie are revelling in it.

“The panellists are being forced to sit next to people they’ve actively avoided for years. You can feel the tension backstage and it’s awful.

Thank God they don’t have a studio audience anymore as they would feel it too and actually that’s another reason things are worse than ever – they don’t even have to pretend to like each other now until the cameras go on.”

Despite the bad feeling, however, we understand the women are less reluctant to kick off to the bosses these days after seeing how the show has been impacted by the money-saving bloodbath.

Our mole explains: “No one wants to complain because of the redundancies looming. It’s like, keep your head down, smile for the cameras, and hope you’re not next out the door.

Some of the ladies are very open at times though and just say things like, ‘I’m too old to care I’ll say what I want’and that is happening more. It’s getting to the point now though that staff fear the women will kill off the whole show – there’s only so much pretending people can do and the staff are sick of the negativity and backstabbing backstage.

“Yes, There are a lot of big personalities and a big cast, but back in the day, the culture used to be really wild. Big nights out, loads of drinking, people hooking up, massive fallouts – it was messy.

“Everyone knew, but it was carefully managed, whispered about and largely stayed in-house.

“Now, so much has been made public about the toxic reality of working on a show like this, and it’s taken its toll across the board. Behind the scenes, it’s totally falling apart and if they don’t change their ways, the women will end up ruining it all for themselves.”