Denise Welch sent Loose Women producers and her fellow panellists into a nervous frenzy on Monday as she shared a shocking rumour about an unnamed member of the royal family.
The talk show presenters were taking part in a discussion about the series of The Crown, which has come under fire for alluding to an ‘affair’ between Queen Elizabeth II and her horse racing manager Lord Porchester.
Talking about whether the show was disrespectful to the royals, the panellists agreed that the show was a work of fiction and that its charm came from showing the stately family as less than perfect, something Denise was keen to prove with her own anecdote.
‘My old friend [late Coronation Street actress] Betty Driver, she loved a gossip but it was always substantiated,’ she said.
‘She told me that all the time she was working on Corrie she also kept her London flat which had a roof terrace.’
‘Be careful what you say now,’ warned Andrea McLean, while Denise indicated that she had the show’s producers in her earpiece telling her to be quiet as she replied: ‘It’s so funny, my producers are saying, “No names!”’
Never one to let that put her off, Denise continued: ‘She used to look over to an opposite roof terrace where a very prominent male member of the royal family used to keep his concubine, would that be the word? And they were actually having jiggy jiggy on the roof terrace.
‘Not that I’m one to gossip,’ she jokingly insisted.
Well, that’s quite the revelation for daytime ITV on a Monday.
‘Or maybe it was just someone who looked like the royal,’ Jane Moore reasoned as she attempted to deflect the conversation, but Denise was standing firm and not backing down.
‘No, it wasn’t. She had other proof that it was the person. She made it her mission to find out, put it that way.’
‘We do have to stress that all these reports are unsubstantiated, Denise Welch,’ Andrea nervously laughed.
Oh Denise, never change.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.
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