Gloria Hunniford shocked her Loose Women colleagues on Monday when she returned to the show, after some time away, to reveal that members of the public thought she was 'dead,' having spotted her slumped in her car whilst she was having a snooze last week.
After a few weeks off from the ITV daytime programme, broadcasting legend Gloria was back on the panel to join colleagues like host Jane Moore, Coleen Nolan and Brenda Edwards as Loose Women kicked off another week of live broadcasts. One of the topics discussed during the hour long episode was whether the panel thought it was rude to fall asleep on someone else on public transport.
And it was then Gloria, 83, told the rather startling story of what had happened to her, during what should have been an uneventful trip to the shops on one of her days off. She explained: "Two days ago, I’m doing the driving at the minute because my husband has got a bit of an eye problem. And he’s in the shop, shopping, while I’m sitting in the air conditioning in the car with the dog, looking after it.