Frankie Bridge has opened up about her relationship with a fellow Loose Women panellist, setting the record straight.
Frankie, who became a panellist on the ITV show back in 2021, said during a Loose Women podcast episode that she need to “make something very clear” about her friendship with 62-year-old Kaye Adams.
Frankie, 36, explained her affectionate nickname for Kaye which has led to her being labelled as “mean”. But Frankie said that Kaye began the joke in the first place.
Frankie said: “I just want to make something very clear, we’ve always had this bantery relationship haven’t we.” Kaye agreed, as Frankie added: “”But, you are actually the person that started the whole nana thing, me calling you nana.”
However, Kaye retorted: “It was you, it wasn’t me”, before Frankie responded: “It was not me, you used to say like, ‘Oh, I feel like your nana, like come on, help me child’, then I’ve just carried it on.
“And now, everyone thinks I’m really mean. You started it because you always had such an issue with me being so much younger than you.”
Kaye confessed that upon Frankie’s arrival on Loose Women, she doubted whether a friendship would blossom between them, reports the Manchester Evening News. “It’s not that I didn’t think we’d get on,” Kaye elaborated.
“It’s just that I always have this thing with young beautiful glamorous women, that I just think they’re different from me. And I thought, ‘Well she seems like a nice girl’, but I didn’t think that we’d have like a relationship.”
Initially, Kaye had reservations, but the two have formed a strong bond, frequently engaging in conversations about ageing. Kaye’s insecurities about her age once ran so deep that she resorted to lying about her actual age, fabricating a false birthdate.
The presenter went as far as deceiving her own family about her age before eventually making a “big confession”. Kaye revealed her true age to her daughter, which proved more distressing than she had anticipated.
“She had it in her head I was the same age as her friends’ parents and suddenly I wasn’t and that rocked her,” Kaye shared with The Mirror. During a recent discussion on Loose Women, Kaye opened up about her changed perspective on ageing, realising it wasn’t as daunting as she once believed.
“It’s you’re fabulous at 40, at 50, but once you get to 60 I mean all the greetings cards are about flatulence and losing your teeth, but you don’t feel that way,” she confessed.