Some Loose Women viewers have accused Janet Street-Porter of being a bit “unkind” to Linda Robson over her recent swimsuit pictures.
Fans of Linda, 60, were stunned over the weekend when she posted a series of holiday snaps to her Instagram showing her wearing a black one-piece while sunbathing.
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Linda said on Tuesday’s show: “My kids took the photos. I wasn’t papped or anything. I never took it. My kids took it and said, ‘Mum, you look really lovely. You’ve lost all that weight and you look great.'”
She famously dropped two stone and three dress sizes last year.
However, Janet didn’t seem that fussed on one of the pics, showing Linda sunbathing, and told her: “You look lovely but not in that particular picture. You do in the other picture, where you’re standing up.
“Can you give your son a few lessons in how to take a decent photo?”
Janet also jokingly asked Linda if she was “auditioning for something” to which Linda replied: “You never know. Jane Seymour’s in Playboy. They may want me next!”
“The Islington Gazette more like!” quipped Janet.
Janet then said she couldn’t believe Linda’s son had posted the swimsuit pics online, but Linda told her: “No he didn’t! I did! I’ve spent my life walking around swimming pools in sarongs, covering myself up.
“I just thought, for the first time in I don’t know how many years, I actually felt comfortable walking around in a swimming costume and not covering anything up, so I posted the pics.”
Janet said: “I think the pics are great, they just need a bit of…” But Linda interrupted: “I’m not using Photoshop! They’re real!”
Some Loose Women viewers felt Janet could have been more supportive to Linda.
Of course, perhaps it was all just banter?
After all, Janet did compliment Linda on one of her other photos, showing her standing in the same black swimsuit while hugging her son.
Other viewers focused on how great Linda looks, sending her tweets while Loose Women was on to praise her body confidence and all the hard work she’s put in.
Linda enjoyed a few days away in Spain with son Louis and daughter Bobbie ahead of them running the London Marathon later this month.
She gave up sugar at the beginning of last year and completely overhauled her diet.
The Birds of a Feather actress embraced a new healthy regime after doctors warned she could be susceptible to diabetes if she didn’t make changes to her diet.
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“I had a medical last year and they said if I didn’t lose a bit of weight then I might be prone to getting diabetes, which worried me,” she previously said on Loose Women. “I thought it would be quite a good time [to change my diet], but it’s been hard, as I have a couple of glasses of wine every night.”
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