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Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 talk show is being temporarily taken off air to make way for their Christmas schedule. Vanessa’s talk show on the channel launched in March this year, after she left ITV’s This Morning after 33 years. On average, her talk show attracts 50,000 viewers per 70 minute show - lower than one of her competitors Jeremy Vine. It will reportedly be taken off air next month for an extended Christmas break. But a Channel 5 spokesperson has reassured viewers Vanessa’s show will return to air in the next year. “With our festive lineup of Christmas Movies filling the daytime schedule, The Vanessa show will be taking a planned pause,” the channel said. “Vanessa remains an important and much-loved part of the 5 daytime line-up and we're thrilled to be bringing her back in 2026.” In March, shortly after launch, Vanessa called suggestions her show had flopped “unfair”. Speaking to journalists, including The Standard, the veteran broadcaster, said: “It’s rubbish, we doubled [our figures] day one, it’s a brand new show, it has only been going four days, it wasn’t fair and it wasn’t true.” And she also said “it feels bloody excellent” to have this new format. “It’s going to be the place where you can have an honest chat about relationships, parenting, grandparenting, love, sex, if you're lucky enough to have any, health, fitness and friendship.” She also hit back at criticism over her gaudy set, which sees her and guests sat on pink sofas surrounded by pink flowers, cushions, curtains and even cakes. Despite viewers on social media describing it as looking like “Barbie's met Babestation” and questioning “did the sofas come from Barbara Cartland's old place?”, Feltz says she loves it. Adding: “I’ve had people DM me on Instagram saying it’s so pretty.” Before her Channel 5 show, the presenter was a regular contributor to This Morning - and she says the other ITV presenters supported her move. "When I told everyone I wouldn't be able to do the show anymore, they were lovely about it. I heard from Alison Hammond and Holly Willoughby immediately and the bosses were charming. I'll miss working with them all," she told the Daily Star.
