Stacey Solomon makes ITV Loose Women return and explains 11 month absence following exit fears

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Stacey Solomon has made a much-wlecomed return to Loose Women as she was quickly asked to explain her 11 month absence from the show.

The presenter has been a panellist on the ITV lunchtime show since 2016 but the regularity of her appearances has dwindled in recent years.

Only recently, there had been fears Stacey, 34, had quit the programme after taking some time off for maternity leave following the 'surprise' arrival of her fifth child, daughter Belle, who was born at her family's Essex home back in Febraury.

But after her return was confirmed at the end of last week, Sort Your Life Out presenter Stacey was back on-screen on Wednesday's episode (November 8) and reunited with her fellow co-stars Kaye Adams, Katie Piper and Judi Love. READ MORE: ITV's Lorraine Kelly apologises for 'really bad' wardrobe blunder and says 'it won't happen again' READ MORE: Read more of today's top stories from the Manchester Evening News She was quickly quizzed on the reason for her lengty stint away from the show, with Stacey putting it down to have three babies in four years, two of those in the last two years, and as a results of Belle's arrival, having to push filming commitments back before cramming them in just a couple of months after her second daughter's birth. "I am so happy to be here, I feel like I have missed so much," Stacey said. "It has been so crazy, Belle was a wonderful surprise but have had to film my filming schedule into a very short filming period'." But she later added: "And now I get to be with my actual friends again, for a catch up, it's like therapy being here." Stacey also revealed that after Belle's arrival she's become an exercise convert after Kaye revealed she came into the studio to find Stacey who