Kaye Adams is forced to call in sick live on air after waking with a throat infection

Kaye Adams was forced to call in sick while presenting her regular BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland segment on Wednesday morning. 

The Loose Women panellist, 60, was due to host a phone-in about the Scottish government’s recommendation to decriminalise street drugs, only to step down after waking with a painful throat infection. 

Introducing her segment 30-minutes ahead of its scheduled 9:00am start, she said: ‘I opened my mouth and I had no idea what would come out, which is what I usually do, to be honest.

‘I’m struggling today. I might just do the phone-in, and then we might get emergency services in I think, because I think it’s failing me. 

‘I thought it was better than it was but when I got here this morning… it’s going to be annoying, I’m sorry.’ 

However the seasoned presenter later admitted she might not even make the phone-in, telling listeners: ‘Somebody will be with you at nine o’clock.’ 

Hosts Gary Robertson and Laura Maxwell admitted the presenter had gone home to recover because her voice had been reduced to a ‘squeak.’ 

‘Stay tuned to find out who’ll be presenting at nine,’ Robertson added. 

With Adams out of action, guest presenters Lucy Whyte and Laura McGhie were parachuted in at the last minute to act as emergency cover. 

The presenter recently dismissed rumours of reported feuds between the Loose Women stars as nonsense.

Adams, who first appeared on the show in 1999, admitted she gets bored with constant speculation about the dynamics off-set. 

She told the Mirror: ‘I do get fed up that almost always we will be asked whether we b**ch about each other.’

The broadcaster added: ‘When we are asked about feuds, we think it is funny. It is certainly not a viper’s nest.

‘The one thing that I can guarantee when I go to the Loose Women, regardless of the line-up of women, regardless of the topics, at some point in that day, I will have a real belly laugh.

‘And I don’t know how many other people can say that about their working life. I’m really delighted to say, hand on heart at some point in the day, we will be creasing ourselves, which is a lovely thing.’ 

Adams also shared details of an ’embarrassing’ experience that almost left her unable to work while chatting on a recent episode of podcast, How To Be 60.

Explaining that the ordeal was ‘awful’, she explained that the injured leg was a result of going too heavy during a gruelling F45 workout class.

‘My leg just gave up on me,’ she recalled. ‘I was in the middle of London. I was walking from Goodge Street to Bank and my leg literally stopped working.

‘It was so embarrassing; I couldn’t get up the stairs at the tube station. You know when you put one leg up first and then you drag the other up, you look like Frankenstein’s Monster.’ 

She added: ‘I just couldn’t understand what was happening to me. Usually at a tube station I flamboyantly skip up and down the stairs – “look at me, I’m 60 and I’m skipping!”‘