How does Lorraine Kelly get so much time off work?
Molly Bloom
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I see Lorraine Kelly has the school holidays off yet again, even though her daughter must be university age by now. I'm not complaining as the show is far better when anyone but her presents is but how does someone who is such an appalling presenter get such special treatment? I'd feel similar about Philip "Mr ITV" Schofield but when Lorraine has a show named after her and hardly ever presents it, it seems more ridiculous.
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It is half term in some areas this week
I'm sorrry, is it upto you to approve what can be talked about?
I just find it totally baffling how such a bad presenter has managed to get one of the cosiest deals in history. I've known of very few people in front of the camera who have as much time of as her. I was interested to see what others' opinions are.
I work with people who work term time it's not unusual it just baffles me as to why it's anyone's business what hours just she choses to work, would you like her to discuss your hours on her show when she comes back? would you like her to say how what an appalling employee you are because in the end she is just doing a job the same as anyone else, because it is on tv doesn't mean she has to justify her employment contract to you in the same way you don't have to tell her if she asked you. It's just a job like any other.
She presents Daybreak and Lorraine just as much as Phil & Holly present This Morning and, ironically, more days than Bill & Susanna present BBC Breakfast.
Main presenters of such shows tend to work term time, its how it has always been. But Lorraines show is named after her so its more noticeable. Dont forget, they used to just take Lorraines show off air when she wasn't on and would just have GMTV right through to 9.25am. When Daybreak started (or maybe in the later GMTV days) they started to leave it on and get stand ins.
It's hardly 'barely on it' though is it?
Between September and Christmas it'll be one week off.
Susanna Reid is only doing 2 days a week on Breakfast at the moment.
Come to think of it, where is Bill Turnbull on BBC Breakfast?
Exactly. Just be grateful OP.
Yeah 'key' people, if Chris Evans and Ken Bruce take a holiday at the same time, they have to shut the station down.
Clearly this isn't a situation where work will pile up in their absence.
There's a good doc on BBC 4, I shouldn't be engaging with this old tut.
How many times, she (and all the other main presenters) don't have school holidays off because they need them to be with their kids, they have them off because viewers are lower during these times, and peoples patterns are disrupted, therefore if a star presenter is going to have a lot of time off it is best to do it then.
But that begs the question is Kelly a star performer? She certainly isn't very popular on these boards.
I am most certainly not a Lorraine fan but the schools where I work in Scotland went back today. There are other around where I live who go back next week. As another poster said, its so different all across country... but I honestly don't mind, let her take lots of holidays... maybe make it permanent.
Yeah and digital spy and it's keyboard warriors represent the public at large:rolleyes:
The more time she has off can only be beneficial to the show,:)
Ms Reid is pure hottie, Kelly is nottie.
Who is Lorraine Kelly?
She is a so called celebrity TV presenter who brown noses every possible celebrity or non-celebrity she can get on to "her" TV programme. She has a habit of saying everything is fantastic, briiliant, excellent, and has this inane giggle that does peoples' heads in.
Sadly, though she goes home for school holidays, she comes back on TV again. And even more sadly, she has columns on two newspapers where she continues her brown nosing with her big friend Ross King, who thinks everyone in the UK needs to know what's happening to every star in Los Angeles when we really don't give a sh*t.
Re. Reid, I noticed they interview Alex Ferguson this morning and gave to job to that equine-faced 'sports presenter'. Surely Reid didn't fancy tossing her hair, crossing her legs and acting like a schoolgirl?
brilliant post. she's got away with it for so long now