BREAKING NEWS: Lorraine Kelly makes SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT about New TV show COMING to Channel 4
Details of Lorraine Kelly’s new Channel 4 show have been revealed(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Lorraine Kelly’s is setting sail to Channel 4 with a big-budget travel show around Norway. The daytime host is jumping ship for a new travelogue exploring the land of the Vikings in the Scandinavian country.
Home of the Northern Lights, the 65-year-old will tour the stunning natural beauty it has to offer, across mountains, glaciers and fjords in Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey. Last month it was reported the ITV host had signed on to a new project with the rival channel as daytime budgets on her show were slashed. Her programme, Lorraine, will be cut by 30 minutes from next year as the broadcaster sheds 220 jobs in a bid to save cash.
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Lorraine Kelly will front her own travel show with Channel 4 after facing cut backs on her ITV show(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
From January, Good Morning Britain will be extended by half an hour to fill the gap, running from 6am to 9.30am daily. Lorraine, which currently runs for almost the entire year, will now only air for 30 weeks out of 52, with GMB extended by 30 minutes during the weeks Lorraine is not on air, until 10am.
Job cuts are expected to be made across daytime shows GMB, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women. At the Edinburgh TV Festival this week ITV boss Kevin Lygo this week insisted the channel will try to make its daytime shows look the same next year, despite the cuts.
“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,” he said. “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.”
Lorraine, with Boy George on her show, has enjoyed a 40 year career in telly(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
It remains to be seen how the loss of half an hour of airtime in 2026 will affect Lorraine’s pay packet. This week new accounts for the TV star were published which showed she raked in around £13,000 a week last year as one of the most popular faces on the box.
Figures for 2024 for her production firm Albatel Ltd published on the Companies House website this week show the firm is valued at £4.2m – with cash reserves of £3.3m. Lorraine also has £135,000 in investments.
The firm paid a Corporation Tax bill of £135,504 in 2024, pointing to earnings of around £677,520 – or £13,000 a week. In 2023, she paid £108,505 in Corporation Tax to HMRC, meaning she was paid around £540,000.
The host will front Channel 4 travel show Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey(Image: WireImage)
Glasgow-born Lorraine got her big break at TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984. She’s fronted shows for ITV and STV, including Good Morning Britain, GMTV, This Morning and Daybreak before landing her own show.
Last year the channel celebrate her glittering career with special Lorraine Kelly: 40 Unforgettable Years, featuring famous colleagues and fans like Piers Morgan, Brian Cox and Craig David.
Lorraine has encountered A-list stars and Royalty over her career, including Queen Camilla(Image: AP)
Looking back at her remarkable four-decade journey in the industry, Lorraine said: “I have never had a career plan and I still don’t. I’ve worked hard and I’ve been lucky. I love what I do and I have a wonderful production team and crew.
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“As a freelance you live from one yearly contract to the next and you never know what the future holds, but I found my niche. Live morning TV suits me and I love it.”
Lorraine is a regular guest on Channel 4’s comedy panel show The Last Leg. Telly insiders says Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey is currently in the edit and will air in autumn.
