Loose Women Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams tell Closer about bonding over gin and tonic - and what their fellow panellist Katie Price is REALLY like...
When we catch up with Loose Women Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams, it's immediately obvious that they are genuinely best friends.
More like sisters than pals, they're constantly laughing at in-jokes and winding each other up.
But it wasn't always like that. When they were first introduced, during an audition for the daytime show 20 years ago, the pair didn't ever think they'd be able to work together.
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With her youthful glow and natural curly hair, A 16-year-old Katie Price, from Brighton, was a natural in front of the camera.
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For her first ever modelling shoot at 17, Katie was fresh faced and surgery free, but that pout is unmistakeable
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With an eye on the prize, Katie perfected her Jordan persona early on in her career
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With professional hair and make-up, Joran begins her ascent to Page 3 domination
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She's admitted to getting her first boob job at just 18, so it's little wonder she was looking forward to showing them off
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New to the party circuit, Jordan was earning her stripes with the Paparazzi at 24
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But it wasn't long before her reputation as Britain's hardest partying glamour girl was confirmed
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As the lucrative commercial deals started to roll in, Jordan expanded her fan base beyond the typical lads mag readers
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For her stint in the jungle in 2004, Jordan opted for practical corn rows and clear skin, but those shower scenes relaunched her career and set her firmly on a reality TV trajectory
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Fresh out of the jungle and with a new man in the form of 90's pop sensation Peter Andre on her arm, Katie was all about the matchingoutfits. She ditched the braids and slap-free face for a more high maintenance look.
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A new mum to second son Junior, Katie was quickly back in her knickers on the red carpet, sporting a noticeably slimmer nose and smoother skin.
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Later that year Katie was preparing to launch her pop career with husband Peter and was very much into her mahogany years
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As she prepared to welcome baby number three (her first daughter, Princess Tiaami), Jordan was looking more than a little like her impending arrival. Weird or what?
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Now mainly known as Katie Price, she admitted after confirming her nose job, "I've always had a thing about my nose."I haven't had a full 100% nose job. They shaved the bone – they didn't break my nose. In fact, I liked my nose before and now. If I had a cupboard with both noses, I'd alternate between them!"
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At 30, Katie was still young but already a fan of fillers."I get my forehead and around my eyes Botoxed every six months and I love it. You can't beat it," she said.
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She's not been shy about the work she's had done on her teeth, either. "I didn't do it for cosmetics, I fell off a skateboard and cracked my teeth when I was younger," she admitted."They were so expensive. When I was in the US, I watched Extreme Makeover and went to see the dentist on there – $150,000 my bloody teeth cost me."
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She was also one of the pioneers of lip fillers, sporting the plumped up pout that's so very mainstream these days.
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As her marriage to Peter Andre began to break down, Katie's mega-watt beauty routine followed suit and she was often spotted wearing a much more demure look
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During the Alex Reid years, Katie went ALL out with her make up and outfit choices.
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Katie's chest looked much flatter at this 2011 premier
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Katie stepped out sporting a noticeably taught forehead, indicating a fresh botox job.
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Following this poorly lit picture, Katie stepped out with a drastic new look...
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With BLACK hair and eerily pore-less skin
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By 2014, the boobs were most definitely BACK, as was a painfully taught-looking face.
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As her facial muscles relaxed back to normal, her hair followed suit and Katie looked happier and more natural than she had in a while when she got together with Kieran Hayler.
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Looking a little puffy later on 2015
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Katie went into the CBB house in 2015 and admitted having her boobs reduced – but that things hadn't gone exactly to plan."They were going to take them out on Monday," she told her shocked housemates. "My implant was hanging out in New Year's Day. But it hasn't stopped me coming in, because I'm not running around."
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We've lost track of where Katie's boobs were in 2016, but this is the year she seemed to become seriously addicted to fillers.
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Looking puffy again in the summer of 2016, cheering on then-husband Kieran Hayler.
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A botched botox job left Katie feeling 'ugly' in 2017."I absolutely hated it... the only thing I could do to sort it out was to remove the threads and then have a face lift. I never ever wanted a face lift at my age - I would have had one in years to come, but I didn't want one this young,"
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She eventually returned the Brussels-based surgeon who fixed her botched boobs back in 2015.
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By 2018 her face was back to normal, but not before shocking pictures emerged of her post surgery in Belgium, her face wrapped in bandaged and surgical fluid tubes hanging off her head.
Kaye admits: "We immediately didn't like the look of one another," as Nadia adds: "It was so bad that I actually refused to take the job on Loose Women!
"I was actually quite intimidated by Kaye, she seemed so much cleverer than me – and she thought I was an actress 'luvvie'."
But bosses managed to convince Nadia, 53, to give it a chance – and two decades on, they're closer than ever. Alongside continuing to work together on Loose Women, the pair have just released a joint guide for inexperienced cooks called Disaster Chef.
So what changed their minds? Nadia smiles: "We realised that we actually have a lot in common. We are both very hard workers, but we also like to laugh like drains and take the pi**. And we both like gin and tonics!"
Speaking of first impressions, we can't resist asking what Nadia and Kaye, 55, make of their fellow panellist, Katie Price.
The former glamour model, 39, has caused controversy since joining the show in 2015 – in one memorable episode, she was jokingly marched off the stage after making an explicit comment about using "spit" as a sexual lubricant.
But Nadia says everyone has been pleasantly surprised by the mum-of-five. She explains: "We are actually all very fond of her because she is nothing like what we thought she would be.
"We thought she might be stroppy, or a diva. Sometimes we see these things in the paper about her and we just say, 'Really?'"
She continues: "Honest to god, we haven't seen any of it. If anything, she's very self-deprecating. She really does put herself down. One of the issues is that people have such a strong image of her and maybe Katie feels she needs to live up to it."
It's been a particularly hard year for Katie, after her third husband Kieran Hayler, 30, confessed to an affair with their nanny (something she denied) and her mum Amy was diagnosed with a terminal lung condition.
Nadia adds: "It's one thing after the other for her. Every time she comes into the studio, we think, 'Oh, Katie!' She's having such a tough time - all our hearts go out to her."
That Katie is controversial on the show isn't a problem for Nadia and Kaye. In their opinion, any Loose Woman who only says things the viewers like is "doing something wrong".
Nadia says: "I always see it as a good thing when I've said something and it annoys people. Sometimes we'll start a morning meeting at Loose Women with, 'Right, we're gonna get some s**t for this…'"
Kaye adds: "If it's an opinion we honestly have and we can back it up, we're happy to take the backlash. That's our job!"
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