Dr. Hilary Jones quitting ITV's Lorraine
Dr. Hilary Jones has announced he is leaving ITV's Lorraine as a regular.

Dr. Hilary Jones is quitting ITV’s Lorraine as a regular.
The 72-year-old general practitioner's (GP's) last day on the broadcaster's breakfast magazine show - hosted by 65 year old Lorraine Kelly - is December 31.
It comes as the on-air time for Lorraine will be slashed from an hour to 30 minutes, as well as be broadcast on a 30-week "seasonal basis" from January 2026, as part of ITV's budget cuts - which has made Dr. Hilary wonder if the network will have enough money to throw a leaving party for him.
Dr. Hilary told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: "I’m still working there until December 31 and then I’m a free agent. It’s liberating from the constraints of a news programme presenter.
"I’ll probably come back as a guest presenter now and then.
"People are being very sensitive to the fact that some people are having to move on. A lot of people are being redeployed elsewhere or in the same role. ITV, like everyone else, are having to make changes."
As well as cutting the on-air time for Lorraine, ITV's budget cuts will also see over 220 jobs axed.
Asked if ITV is organising a leaving party for its employees being made redundant, he said: "It would be lovely if they did, but we will wait and see on that one because money is tight.
"Certainly, there are groups of us who feel we’re part of a family, so we will all be going out anyway, whether they pay or not.
"We are quite happy to dip into our own pockets.
"I think people at work know where they stand, and many saw changes coming."
Lorraine recently described the cuts coming to her programme "heartbreaking".
It was speculated that the TV host was set to leave her eponymous show after her one-year contract expired, but Lorraine has insisted she is not going anywhere.
The star - who is a freelancer - told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I don't see me going anywhere until people get fed up, you know? Until people say, 'I've had enough of that one.'
"It's really heartbreaking to split up the team. A lot of them have been with me for more than 20 years, and they're my friends. I've grown up with them.
"They were babies when they started with me, and now they've got babies of their own."
Lorraine admitted she initially struggled to come to terms with the cuts to her programme - but the star feels happier about it now because many of her team have landed new jobs on different shows.
She explained: "It's been difficult with the cuts, it's been hard.
"I'm a lot happier about it now, but it was honestly and genuinely all about the team.
"I wasn't annoyed or angry about this for me. It was about the team."
In May, ITV also announced that from 2026 that the on-air time for Loose Women will be reduced to 30 weeks instead of 52 weeks.
Addressing the budget cuts at the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, Kevin Lygo - Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at ITV - revealed the broadcaster will make its daytime shows look the same next year, but he said it will be "challenging".
Mr. Lygo, 67, also does not think that the golden days of daytime TV are over at ITV, but stressed there would be changes to match the evolving way people consume entertainment.
He said: "As a commercial broadcast, you earn most of your money with big audiences in peak time.
"That is what advertisers want, and the cost of those has gone up and up and up. Those are the things that drive us commercially.
"Those morning shows have been on forever, and they are brilliant, and they are watched, and they are seven hours of TV a day, but they do cost a great deal of money.
"So we thought, 'Is there a way of keeping those long-standing brands on air and keeping the familiar faces on that give comfort to people?'
"So the editorial brief was if you have a lot less money, which you will do from January, to try to make it so the audience isn’t shocked.
"They should look more or less the same, they are less funded, so that will be challenging to the producers.
"But, unfortunately, that means people doing a perfectly good job will lose their jobs because we need fewer people making them.”