Loose Women host Kaye Adams has opened up about her own struggle with deafness and her reluctance to accept she was losing her hearing, sharing her issue as Rose-Ayling Ellis joined the panel for a special show on Wednesday.
After introducing former Strictly winner Rose to the panel, Kaye explained to viewers at home that 11 million people in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing, adding: "One in five of us will experience hearing loss in our lifetime and I'm one of them. As ever, I'm wearing my hearing aids; I had to take one out actually, so I've got one sitting just under the desk."
Later on in the Loose Women broadcast, Kaye discussed the 'isolation' faced by people in the deaf community and the issues Rose faces on a daily basis, when it comes to things other people take for granted, like wanting customer service over the phone, adding: "People think that listening is just through your ear, but actually, there are so many different ways to communicate. We can communicate visually, we can communicate with paper, body language and sign language. It's a culture, it's a community an it's something I belong to.
