By Dan Laurie,Yasmin Vince

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Lorraine’s long-standing editor Victoria Kennedy has revealed she’s stepping down from her role at ITV amidst significant budget cuts within the network.

After steering the ship for eight years, Victoria will be departing Lorraine Kelly’s show following the upcoming season.

She broke the news on LinkedIn on Friday (19 September), informing her followers that her tenure with Lorraine is drawing to a close.

This announcement follows the unveiling of plans for substantial budget reductions across ITV’s daytime programming.

As a result of these financial cutbacks, both Loose Women and Lorraine will now only broadcast for 30 weeks annually, as opposed to their previous year-round schedule.

Furthermore, Lorraine’s airtime has been halved, dropping from an hour-long slot to just 30 minutes per episode.

Victoria disclosed that she’ll be vacating her editorial role on the show at the end of September, whilst also reflecting on Lorraine’s viewership figures.

She penned: “September is always an important month for us on Lorraine – the launch of a new season as we go into my favourite time of the year to make this show.

“This year is bittersweet as it will be my last one as Editor. So I’m delighted to see that our September new season BARB ratings are the highest they’ve been in three years – and with 37 million video views across social last month, we’re starting the season on a high.”, reports the Mirror.

She expressed her desire to show some “gratitude” for the team she’s been working with for nearly a decade.

“This is a little gratitude post to my incredible team who get up at 3am each morning and pretend they are never tired, who greet every guest with a smile, change running orders at a moment’s notice as news breaks, send me ideas at the weekends and, most importantly, care deeply about what our audience want to see at 9am live every single weekday.

“Making live daytime telly is relentless and exhausting, but it is also a magical privilege to be in people’s living rooms as they start their day,” she added.

Earlier this month, it was announced that ITV’s daytime shows would be moving to a new shared studio. Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women are all set to relocate to a Covent Garden-based studio, The H Club, in January 2026.

Emma Gormley, Managing Director at ITV Studios Daytime, said: “As we work towards more cutting edge and efficient ways to produce Daytime shows in 2026. This move to The H Club studio offers state of the art technology that we can use across our programmes to create shows that are distinctive – with a look and feel that are familiar to and loved by our viewers.

“In a time of transformation for the entire industry, I want to thank all our Daytime teams for their dedication and skill in producing high-quality, compelling live shows every day throughout this period.”

In addition to this, ITV has revealed that Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will now be produced by a single team, instead of separate groups for each programme. As part of their broader restructuring, ITV is poised to cut more than 220 jobs.

Lorraine airs weekdays on ITV1 at 9am