LOOSE Women’s Linda Robson left her co-stars in hysterics as she made an X-rated confession on the ITV show.
Linda, 66, shocked fellow hosts Kaye Adams, Mariella Frostrup and Frankie Bridge when she revealed she’d gifted her son a sex toy.
During today’s (Friday 27 September) episode of the ITV panel show, the presenters discussed the taboo around sex toys.
Linda explained that she’d once been gifted a sex toy at work, but felt uncomfortable taking it home with her.
She explained to her co-stars: “We were in makeup room – I think you (Kaye) were there as well one day – and Denise Welch said ‘put your hand up if you’ve never had a vibrator.’ So I think you put your hand up and I put my hand up.
“So the next time I go in my dressing room, there’s this box with this big pink thing in my room.
“I thought ‘what am I gonna do with this?’ I thought, ‘if I take it home and the grandchildren find it, what am I gonna say?’ I can’t say it’s a toothbrush, can I?
“So I gave it to my son (Louis Dunford) and he gave it to his mate Georgia,” Linda admitted.
Her revelation then sparked a conversation about having a vibrator is part of a healthy sex life as orgasming gets more difficult with age for women.
This then led to a raunchy confession from Linda.
Linda continued: “But apparently there are health benefits to doing this. You told me this Mariella…”
“Yeah, I think wellbeing is there because actually people are starting to recognise the fact that apparently from mid-life onwards – this is what I’ve discovered with all my menopause campaigning – it’s really, really important that you have orgasms, but they’re harder to come by as you get older for one reason or another,” Mariella explained.
“They’re really hard to come by,” Linda interjected, leaving her co-stars in a fit of laughter.
The confession comes after Linda split from her husband of 33 years, Mark Dunford, late last year.
Explaining their split to Woman Magazine, Linda said: “You find out you don’t want any of the same things. I’m a very sociable person and I like going out.
“Mark doesn’t enjoy any of that. He likes to stay at home. He’s not got loads of mates that he goes out drinking with or anything.”
Katie Piper – Former Strictly Come Dancing star, activist, model and author
Sunetra Sarker – Also a former Strictly Come Dancing star, and known for acting in Casualty
Kaye Adams – Scottish journalist and one of the original Loose Women
Christine Lampard – ITV presenter
Ruth Langsford – Presented Loose Women on and off since 1999
Jane Moore – Former columnist for The Sun
Coleen Nolan – Became known for her family girl band called The Nolans and went on to compete on Celeb Big Brother
Nadia Sawalha – Former EastEnders star and Celebrity MasterChef winner
Stacey Solomon – Known for her reality show Sort Your Life Out and winning series 10 of I’m a Celeb
Janet Street-Porter – A journalist and president of the Ramblers’ Association
Brenda Edwards – Came fourth on the X Factor and went on to become a pop star and act in hit musicals such as Hairspray
Charlene White – Lead presenter at ITV News London
Kelly Bryan – Former EastEnders star and was in a girl group called Eternal alongside her sisters. Currently part of the cast of Hollyoaks
Frankie Bridge – Participated in Strictly Come Dancing and came third place on I’m A Celeb in 2021
Judi Love – A stand up comedian and radio presenter, who has also made a variety of TV appearances in shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity MasterChef, and Taskmaster
Linda Robson – Played iconic character Tracey Stubbs in Birds of a Feather
Denise Welch – A soap queen, she starred in Coronation Street, Waterloo Road and Hollyoaks. Also the mother of Matty Healy, the lead singer of pop rock group the 1975.
She added: “So I think that’s when things start to change in the relationship.”
