Though Nadia Sawalha has acted in some of the country’s most popular soaps, the British public have come to know her best for her nearly three-decade run as presenter of one of ITV’s flagship daytime shows, ‘Loose Women’.

But when she started speaking out for Palestine after Israel launched its war against Gaza in the wake of the October 7 attacks, Nadia tells Zeteo UK’s Sangita Myska she was, without warning, taken off air. Her bosses, she says, told her “it’s a bit noisy out there.”

“I took it to mean… your beliefs, your passion, your anti-genocide, all of that… it’s creating noise we don’t want. It’s uncomfortable for us,” Nadia says.

Now, in this exclusive, inaugural “Sangita Meets…” interview – Nadia’s first with independent media since launching legal action against one of the UK’s top broadcasters – Nadia says she hopes her case will set a precedent. “We must make it more difficult to treat people unfairly, individuals unfairly, that are following their absolute moral compass.”

In this wide-ranging and fascinating podcast conversation, Sangita also asks Nadia about her Jordanian roots, fighting back against accusations of antisemitism, how it felt to receive a formal apology and libel damages from the Daily Mail after a defamation lawsuit, and why Nadia believes that legal proceedings against ITV will mean the end of her career as an actress. Zeteo UK has contacted ITV for comment, but as of publication, the company has not responded.

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Zeteo UK is about to launch a new video podcast series, ‘Sangita Meets…’, hosted by award-winning journalist Sangita Myska. The inaugural episode features an exclusive interview with TV personality and actress Nadia Sawalha as its first guest.

This is Sawalha’s first independent media interview since she launched legal action against one of the UK’s top broadcasters, ITV, the network which took her off the air as a founding panelist on the popular daytime talk show “Loose Women” after she began speaking publicly in support of Palestine.

”Why is everybody bloody whispering about an atrocity, an absolute atrocity that we can watch live?” Sawalha tells Myska.

Similarly, Myska was removed from her role at LBC after challenging an Israel government spokesman in a live interview over the genocide in Gaza. The two speak candidly about the backlash they’ve received for criticizing Israel, jeopardising their careers to stand against injustice.

But this is just the first episode of ‘Sangita Meets…’. Each episode will bring you unfiltered, wide-ranging interviews with cultural and political figures, and conversations that take you beyond the soundbite, freely and without bias.

So what are you waiting for? Subscribe to Zeteo UK to be the first to watch ‘Sangita Meets…’ and receive hard-hitting, fearless journalism, direct to your inbox.