Loose Womens Carol McGiffin reveals new face lift and talks battle with cancer as she makes triumphant return
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Carol McGiffin made a triumphant return to Loose Women today, five years after she left the daytime panel show.
Having suffered a serious battle with breast cancer in the time since she made her exit, the 58-year-old broadcaster was open and frank about what effect the disease had one her.
Explaining that it left her fearing investing in things, such as, a career due to a very real and looming death sentence, Carol explained that she was now embracing work and her life again.
Speaking candidly about her new facelift, which she had just three weeks ago, she explained she did it to help reclaim ownership of her self, admitting: I did it to make myself feel better.
Coming clean about her youthful appearance, Carole joked with her fellow Loose Women: I only had it three weeks ago, so if you do look at me and think i look a bit strange or younger than last week then I probably do.
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Addressing her time away from the show, she spoke at length about her battle with breast cancer, Carol revealed that the hardest thing about the disease and recovery wasnt losing her hair or going under the knife to have a breast removed, but the grueling treatment of chemotherapy.
The mastectomy, the operation, it was all a bit… no, it was the chemotherapy. That was the one, she explained.
My hair, no that didnt bother me. A lot of women think thats the worst, but I never really cared about that. It fell out. I didnt mind, I just got cold, she quipped.
She added: Having the chemotherapy and walking out of hospital, and just feeling like someone had injected my veins with poison… which it is.. was just [the worst].
Fans of the show were delighted to have her back on their screens, with them praising her straight-shooting style.
In fact, she was branded the Queen of the panel show by many – it seems like people really have missed Carol!
Carol McGiffin is back on #LooseWomen five minutes and she's already announced she has a face lift three weeks ago Queen is back. Never leave again. @mcgiff
— shane telford. (@MrShaneReaction) July 5, 2018
Great to have Carol back on the show, can't believe it's been 5 years since she last appeared. #loosewomen
— Lewis Pringle (@lewispringle) July 5, 2018
Carol left the daytime show in 2013, saying that she felt shed plundered as much of her personal life as she could bare to.
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Id been thinking about it for at least a year, she told The Sunday People back in 2013. It seems mad to quit one of the best jobs in the world – you talk for an hour with like-minded women and get paid.
I felt Id completely plundered my private life and exhausted my repertoire of anecdotes to the point of boring myself.
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Following her departure Carol appeared on the likes The Wright Stuff and even subjected herself to a run in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The broadcaster has also found herself battling breast cancer, having been diagnosed with the disease in 2015.
She has been open with the public about her struggle with it, and has spoken at length about her battle and the mastectomy she underwent.
Having starred on the show alongside Janet Street porter for three years Carol is the perfect person to step-in and fill the void on todays show following the reveal that the 71-year-old journalist would be off-screen for some time a she recovers from knee surgery.
Loose Women airs on ITV Monday – Friday at 12:30pm.
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