Nadine Dorries' Friday night Talk TV show axed after less than a year on air
Nadine Dorries’s Friday night talk show has been axed after less than a year on air.
The former Tory Cabinet minister’s weekly programme will not be returning to screens, after being absent from the schedules since before Christmas. Ms Dorries is in discussions with the struggling television channel about whether she will continue to have a role.
“We are just in talks about a new contract,” she told the Mirror. Asked whether she will have her own show, she said she could not say.
Ms Dorries insisted her Friday night show had not been a flop. She said: “The programme did great actually… so I live in the Cotswolds and a year of standing on Paddington Station at 7 o’clock at night to go home isn’t what I want to do.”
The ex-MP first appeared on Talk TV as a guest presenter in October 2022 when she struggled to read from the autocue. Despite her on-air stumble, she was handed her own weekly Friday night show at the beginning of February last year.
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On her first programme, she interviewed her favourite politician Boris Johnson who told her he was learning how to paint cows. The former PM also revealed that his death row meal would be bangers and mash. Ms Dorries ended their chat by saying: “I nearly wet myself then, it’s terrifying.” The programme does not appear to have aired since December 15.
Ms Dorries finally quit as an MP in August last year, 81 days after she announced her resignation from the Commons with "immediate effect". The ex-Culture Secretary said she had clung on as she wanted to investigate why she had not been given a seat in the House of Lords. Labour snatched the Mid Bedfordshire seat in a by-election in October, overturning the Tories’ 24,664 majority.
In November, Ms Dorries published a book titled “The Plot: The Political Assassination Of Boris Johnson”. In it she claimed there is a Tory fixer in No10 who chopped a former girlfriend’s pet rabbit into four pieces and nailed it to her family’s front door. She said the shadowy figure known as “Dr No” had also tried to set fire to a house while children were sleeping inside. The publication of the book had been delayed for several weeks because of legal issues.
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