 With daughter Rosie, who is now 28 (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images) Get all the biggest showbiz news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the free Mirror Showbiz newsletter. 'No, not back then. That was 1994 and I was freelance,' Lorraine explained. 'She [Rosie] was born in June and I was going back to work in September, a couple of months later, but if you're freelance that's what you have to do. 'We just got the call about a week before I was due to come back – I was thinking oh I haven't lost any of my baby weight, who cares. 'And I just got the call to say 'Really, sorry we've got Anthea Turner, but do you know what thanks and that's that.'' Lorraine with Eamonn Holmes on GMTV in 1994 (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock) Asked if she bore a 'terrible grudge' against Anthea, the 62-year-old TV legend said: 'No, not at all.' She continued: 'She's a nice girl, and of course it didn't work, because her and Eamonn [Holmes] were like oil and water, and it didn't work.' Eamonn and Anthea Turner were thrust together to host GMTV in 1994 - but it was far from a match made in heaven. The pairing instead triggered an 11-year feud that saw Eamonn accuse his co-star of being vain. He also branded her 'Princess Tippy Toes' in a sensational interview before she famously quit the show 24 years ago this month amid a storm of 'hurt'. She was replaced by Anthe){kind=link}
Lorraine Kelly says getting replaced by fellow presenter Anthea Turner while she was on maternity leave turned into a positive and changed her life for the better
Lorraine Kelly has said she doesn’t bear a grudge towards Anthea Turner after she took her job on GMTV.
At the time Lorraine was on maternity leave after giving birth to her daughter Rosie, now 28.
A week before she was due to come back, the TV star says she was told she had been replaced.
Speaking to Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast, she was asked: “Is it true – I couldn’t quite believe this when I read this- and you were sacked when you were on maternity leave?