Loose Women has been pulled off the air due to ITV showing coverage of Cheltenham festival. From Tuesday until Friday, the female-led panel will make way for the horse racing.

The popular programme is stable at the network having launched back in 1999. So the news is unlikely to go down well with fans, who last week missed out on an episode after it was replaced for the one-off show of the Chancellor’s budget.

But the popular show is expected to return as normal on Monday, March 18, following the sporting event. ITV hasn’t altered its early morning line-up of shows as Good Morning Britain, which airs from 6am to 9am, will be broadcast as usual this week.

It will then be followed by Lorraine from 9am to 10am, followed by This Morning.

The chat show with its new hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley will run from 10am to 12.30pm. The channel will show the races from 1pm until 4:30pm on ITV 1 and ITVX.

Twenty-eight races will take place over the four-day spectacle, with each day having one featured race.

Reports suggest that the Princess Royal will be in attendance at the star studded event, among other celebrities and famous faces who will dress to the nines.

The Royals were a huge part of today’s segment as Denise Welch slammed Kate Middleton following on from her Mother’s Day photo that was released.

Denise, 65, aired her views on the confusion over the image that sparked a nationwide debate. She branded the Prince and Princess of Wales a “mockery”.

In the image which came under fire after suspected Photoshopping, Kate was seen smiling at the camera with her three children – Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five.

Denise said she did not believe the statement and said that the public was being “blindly led to believe” the image was post-surgery. She said it could have been from “anytime” after heavily criticising the timing.