Charlene White penned a sweet farewell to one of her Loose Women colleagues as they left the show after 15 years.
The former I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmate took to Instagram to share sweet tribute to Loose Women's deputy editor Tom Sage, who left the show last week.
Charlene said goodbye on Instagram, posting two photos of herself and Tom alongside a length caption.
Revealing Tom's exciting new role, the star wrote: "Last week we bid farewell to our @loosewomen Deputy Editor @tomsage1984 … and today he flies off to Australia to join the production team at @neighbours!"
Charlene continued: "It was quite the learning curve when I first joined the Loose team 3 years ago. It was unlike any show I’d ever done, and I was nervous as anything.
"But the Loose team are something special, and Tom was there for me from the start – helping to calm nerves, giving me guidance, and just generally being a wonderful friend and boss-man. I’m lucky he was there to hold my hand through the amazing world that is daytime telly.
"I can’t tell you how much we’re going to miss him. Neighbours are so lucky to have him."
Charlene that joked that she may visit him in Australia and find herself a guest role on the soon-to-return Australian soap.
She finished: "In the meantime, I’m gonna keep WhatsApp’ing him storylines that feature a cute Black British newsreader character who’s slightly frazzled by the work/parenting life. Because I’m *totally* up for flying to Oz and ingratiating myself with Ramsay Street."
A number of Loose Women stars paid an emotional farewell to Tom during Friday's episode of the daytime panel show.
Kaye Adams told viewers: "Listen that's it from us for today. I hope you've had fun with us today, but it's a little bit sad for us as our dear friend and deputy editor of the show Tom is going off to a wonderful new life Down Under.
"We're hoping he's going to be a boomerang and come back to us, we will miss him so so much. He is a wonderful colleague and an even more wonderful friend."
Nadia Sawalha added: "We will really miss him," before Jane pointed out: "He's been in this building for 15 years and it's going to be weird without him, but Tom we love you."
Kaye then hilariously revealed that she had tried to get Tom to sit in the audience but he refused to join the live ITV show.
The presenter quipped: "We did try and get him to sit in the audience, but he wasn't going to do it, but don't worry Tom, we're going to be with you in a few moments. Pop the champagne!" as the panellists all joined in on saying goodbye.
It's been an emotional few weeks as just last month the Loose Women team wave d goodbye to their make-up artist, who's been working at ITV for 21 years.
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