Lorraine Kelly says she's made peace with her show being cut in half as she reminisces about her best and worst celebrity guests: 'I've got the best job in telly!'

Lorraine Kelly has revealed she's at peace with her show being cut in half. This year, the presenter's eponymous daytime talk show fell victim to the ITV cuts, with the daily programme cut from an hour to 30 minutes and reduced to airing for 30 weeks out of 52. While Lorraine previously called the move 'heartbreaking', she has now settled into the new regime – which has also affected Loose Women and Good Morning Britain. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Lorraine mused: 'It's been a big adjustment. 'Not just for me, but for the gang at GMB, they moved studios, it's different for Loose Women, they don't have their audience now. So it's been a change. 'But you know, that's throughout the whole TV industry. And to be honest, I honestly do think I've got the best job in telly because I've still got my gang.' Lorraine Kelly revealed she's made peace with her ITV daytime show being cut in half as she reminisced about her best and worst celebrity guestsLorraine continued: 'I've still got Ross King [entertainment correspondent] in LA, I've still got Mark [Heyes] doing fashion, Royal Russell Myers, my beautiful doctors Dr. Amir [Khan] and Dr. Hilary [Jones]. So the gang is solid. We're there. 'And I still get to talk to the most extraordinary people. I mean, in the past month alone, I've talked to people like Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Derek Jacobi, absolute icons, who've got amazing stories to tell. 'So I honestly feel very, very lucky to still be doing the job that I love. And, you know, sure, it's half an hour instead of an hour, but you know what? We can get a lot in that half hour. We get a pint into a half pint pot and we manage it.'And it's great because an awful lot of the crew are still there, the crew that I've known for decades. It's a good atmosphere and everybody's very positive and we're all just looking forward to next year as well. 'It goes on and on and on until it doesn't. So it's fine.' It's been 16 years since Lorraine launched her talk show, and over the years she's welcomed some incredible guests. Yet Lorraine said her highlight was undoubtedly meeting Buzz Aldrin. 'I'm a geek and I love all things space,' Lorraine explained. 'And I sat and watched the moon landings with my lovely dad when I was 10, so talking to Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, I mean, come on. Unbelievable. That was an amazing highlight. 'It wasn't a great interview because I was so starstruck, but I was looking at his feet just thinking those feet have been on the moon.'And when I first started on TV AM, that was the time Terry Wogan had a show and the BBC used to bring all the great big stars over.'The first year I started off, I would have, I would have Burt Lancaster, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr, all of these incredible people.'My first day on TV AM, I watched Anne Diamond and Mike Morris interviewing Bette Davis. I mean, that's mind blowing.' It's been 16 years since Lorraine launched her talk show, and over the years she's welcomed some incredible guests. Yet Lorraine said her highlight was undoubtedly meeting Buzz Aldrin (pictured in 2016) Conversely, Lorraine has also had some tricky interviews in her time, noting Kevin Spacey was 'not a kind person and not particularly pleasant' (pictured with Kevin and Robin Wright) Lorraine added: 'Bruce Willis was not easy, but looking back now, I'm wondering if that was the start of him not being well and maybe that was his defence, to be quite difficult with his team'Conversely, Lorraine has also had some tricky interviews in her time. 'Kevin Spacey was difficult,' Lorraine confessed. 'He was not a kind person and not particularly pleasant to the people round about him, and that was a shame. 'But most people are okay, and I always give them the benefit of the doubt. 'Bruce Willis was not easy, but looking back now, I'm wondering if that was the start of him not being well and maybe that was his defence, to be quite difficult with his team.' The Die Hard star's family revealed in 2023 that Bruce had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Lorraine continued: 'So I always give people the benefit of the doubt until the second time they're exactly the same, then it's "you are a buffoon, it's not that you've had a bad day."'But most people, they've got to do these interviews, it's in their contract and they make the best of it. 'You get pros like wonderful Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman and people like that who just make it easy for you.' As well as her work on Lorraine, the Scottish presenter has been kept busy after teaming up with HP to launch The National Book of Bakes, a project designed to preserve treasured family baking recipes and handwritten notes from across the UK and Ireland. HP and Lorraine called on the British public to submit photographs of their favourite family recipes, together with the stories behind them and selected recipes to be printed using an HP Smart Tank printer, brought together in a professionally bound book to create a lasting record of Britain’s baking memories. Yet while Lorraine may be enjoying baking, she admitted that her own skills aren't quite up to scratch, so we won't be seeing her on The Great Celebrity Bake Off anytime soon. Lorraine explained: 'I love these shows but it's the same reason you'll never see me on Strictly because I would be rubbish and not funny rubbish, not Ed Balls' funny Gangnam Style, it would just be embarrassing.'It's the same as I'm A Celebrity. I would much rather eat a sticky toffee pudding than a kangaroo's testicle! 'I just want to watch. I want to sit there with my glass of wine and my big bag of crisps or a great big cake.'Lorraine has been mindful of her eating habits in recent months, having lost one and a half stone in the lead-up to her daughter Rosie's wedding over the summer (left, in October; right, in 2025)While Lorraine enjoys a snack, she has been mindful of her eating habits in recent months, having lost one and a half stone in the lead-up to her daughter Rosie's wedding over the summer. Discussing the secret to her weight loss, Lorraine revealed: 'There is no magic bullet sadly, but we had motivation way back at the start of the year. 'I comfort eat when it's horrible weather and sadly my dad died, it was very sad.'But my husband tried his kilt on for the wedding and he couldn't get it fastened, I was thinking to myself my clothes are tight. 'I wasn't able to get into things that I liked and the wedding was coming so we had to do something, so we stopped boozing. We stopped having a chocolate plate every night, cut out the massive portions and got up off our bottoms. 'I go to a couple of classes every week at the local gym, we walk the dog and we've got a 10,000 step thing and we do that. So there's no shortcut, but I must admit I do feel better.'Also [granddaughter] Billie is now running around. 'She's a bundle of energy and I want to be able to keep up with her and be a fun granny that will go for walks and take her to museums and take her to parks and be able to just be really hands on.'Being around a kid keeps you young and it's fantastic.' While Billie is only two, Lorraine already knows what she plans to give her when she becomes old enough to make her way around the kitchen – her grandmother's Dundee cake recipe, a handwritten family favourite. The recipe has gone into The National Book of Bakes, a printed archive of treasured family recipes. Lorraine teamed up with HP to launch The National Book of Bakes, a project designed to preserve family baking recipes and handwritten notes from across the UK and Ireland Lorraine already knows what she plans to give her granddaughter when she becomes old enough to make her way around the kitchen – her grandmother's Dundee cake recipeLorraine shared: 'There's something so special about having an old family recipe, especially when it's written by hand by someone you love. 'On paper it might just look like instructions on how to make a cake, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a piece of family history. Especially if it has been handed down through generations.'I found my Granny’s recipe for a Dundee cake in one of my old recipe books. It’s a bit battered and tatty round the edges but it’s one of my most precious possessions.'I’ve printed her recipe off to keep for myself and to pass copies onto my daughter and my friends and other family members. This will keep it safe and ensure my granddaughter Billie will be able to bake the same cake one day. 'I’d urge everyone to preserve these precious memories by doing the same. It’s quick and easy and a wonderful way to remember those we love.'Speaking about the book, Lorraine said: 'It was fantastic seeing it all together and actually holding it in your hand. 'We got hundreds and hundreds of people sending us their recipes, sending us all these beautiful things that they'd kept so it was great to have them all in the one book, in their original state. 'It would be awful to think that we could lose these things. It really would, because, you know, it's something that I've inherited from my gran and that she's inherited from hers.'There is also an emotional connection with food. I mean, it's the way that a lot of parents express their love for their kids or their grandchildren.'