Jane Moore has confessed her daughter worries she'll be cancelled - for something she might say on I'm a Celeb.
The broadcaster has to share her opinions on Loose Women and insists she won't "shy away" from any conversation or debate on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which starts on Sunday.
But this may be her downfall, her eldest daughter reckons. Jane, 62, said: "If there's a debate, I'm going to put my two pennies in and stick up for myself. But my eldest daughter is more apprehensive and was like, 'Oh, my God, you know you're going to get yourself cancelled or something by saying something you shouldn't'."
And it's likely there will be chances for debate - as the feisty line-up includes fellow panellist GK Barry, outspoken boxing promoter Barry McGuigan and media personality Coleen Rooney, who may open up about her libel case against Rebekah Vardy. Coleen has, in the past, been open about her feelings for The Sun, the publication for which Jane writes an opinion column.
But defiant Jane, who has two daughters, says she is not afraid of being cancelled - when an individual is ostracised or boycotted for being thought to have said something unacceptable.
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ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Speaking to Mail Online, the journalist said: "Do I have it in me to say something that somebody living in their mother's spare bedroom with no life might not agree with? Yeah, but that's their problem, not mine.
"Sometimes you can say something that somebody doesn't agree with, and there'll be a Twitter storm, or an X storm, or whatever we call it these days.
"But for me, if it doesn't make it into a printed newspaper, then it's not a story. So it's just people on a social media platform who don't agree with what you've said, getting hot under the collar because they don't agree with you. That doesn't mean to say that what you said is, you know, fitting some sort of ism or bigotry or whatever."
Jane had said she agreed to take part in this year's I'm a Celeb after realising life is too short - as she watches Alzheimer's disease "slowly erode" her elderly mother. Yet, her opening scenes were fraught with danger as the broadcaster, born in Oxford, battled strong winds during her descent from a plane with a parachute.
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Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)The mum was blown off course and landed amongst some tourists instead of her fellow campmates. But Jane eventually found her way to the other celebs - and looked extremely relieved to have made it as she embraced Coleen.
Jane, a regular on Loose Women since 2013, had last week revealed she has been approached before by the bosses of the I'm a Celeb but, on each occasion, she had declined. She was offered it again this year and she bit the bullet - so she's now one of the initial ten stars in the jungle.
The star says she wants "adventure," having been "rattling around an empty house with lots of 'me time'" since her split with husband Gary Farrow in 2022.