ITV Loose Women slapped with Ofcom complaints after Denise Welch's furious rant at TV guest

Loose Women has been hit with a number of official complaints from viewers after Denise Welch found herself in a furious rant at a TV guest during a recent live episode when she appeared to have finally had enough of hearing complaints about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

During Monday's (May 6) episode, Denise and her co-stars were joined on the ITV lunchtime show but Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth II and to King Charles III before he was crowned last year, was in the studio to speak about the monarch's cancer battle.

While the conversation began smoothly, it inevitably took a turn when Dickie addressed the elephant in the room and shared his thoughts on whether the King can ever repair his relationship with his son, Prince Harry.

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Royal fans will recall the latter snubbed life as a senior working royal alongside his wife Meghan for a fresh start across the Atlantic and the couple have publicly condemned the negative media scrutiny they have both received, personally, as a couple and as parents for their two children, Archie and Lilibet.

For Denise, Meghan and Harry's decision to leave Windsor and Frogmore Cottage behind was nothing short of logical and tensions emerged at lightning speed as she vehemently defended them - calling Dickie out for his own criticism of Meghan Markle. "If I may say, do you not think there is a reason why Harry did such a thing?", the 65-year-old initially asked, referring to the Duke's decision to leave the UK for the US.

Denise then summarised the heartbreak surrounding King Charles III's family, wounds first stemming from the monarch's marriage with Lady Diana "when he was in love with Camilla." She claimed: "It ruined a lot of Diana's life", as she then recalled how a young Prince Harry witnessed his mother's death after a fatal car chase with paparazzi before he was forced to walk publicly behind her coffin and accept Queen Camilla as his stepmother.

"Then he has a wife who is completely and continually trashed by the media, including your good self", Denise added while turning to Dickie, while some audience members began to applaud her. "I am just sick to death of the bashing that this woman gets (...) we continually berate this woman every day."

When Dickie argued that the Sussexes have received criticism over their choice to leave the Royal Family, Denise furiously doubled down, asking: "Why would they not walk out? Why would they want to spend their life in a country that hated them?"

The segment left many ITV viewers with their jaws dropped as they swarmed over to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their thoughts. And while the majority of Loose Women viewers seem to have agreed with Denise's sentiments, it seems that a substantial number of viewers were also left offended by her comments.

It has been confirmed that 103 furious viewers complained to regulator Ofcom about how Denise spoke out about the Royal Family and her reaction to Dickie's views.