Solid Crew’s Lisa Maffia claimed former Loose Women star Carol McGiffin was ‘the worst celebrity she’d ever met’.
The 45-year-old singer, who appeared on the ITV show in 2019, branded the presenter a “rude scumbag” and claimed the 64-year-old’s relationship with her toyboy friend and now husband Mark Cassidy, 43, had “gone to her head”.
When asked about her worst encounter with a celebrity, she said: Living Lavida Loca podcast: ‘I know this one. Her name is… what’s her name again? She’s rude, you know?’
‘She was one of the original panellists on Loose Women, what a scumbag.’
Struggling to remember Carol’s name, Lisa said, “She had… she was old, short bob, gray, blond hair. She had a young boyfriend.”
Solid Crew’s Lisa Maffia, 45, claims ex-Loose Women star Carol McGiffin was the ‘worst celebrity she ever met’
The singer called the presenter a ‘rude scumbag’ and claimed the 64-year-old’s relationship with her toyboy friend and now husband Mark Cassidy, 43, had ‘gone to her head’
Lisa pictured on Loose Women in 2019
“She had her hair cut really short, and she started dating a really young guy, and it went to her head. I had to check her out.”
After someone in the studio correctly guessed Carol’s identity, the rapper continued, “Yeah. That’s it, McGriffin or Griffin, little flippin’ surly, buck surly. No, she was rude. I’ll tell you like it is, don’t try it with me.”
A spokesman for Carol told MailOnline: ‘Carol has no recollection of meeting her and does not know who she is.’
Carol first met her husband in 2008, when she was 48 and he was only 26. In 2018, they secretly married in Bangkok.
She was previously married to radio and television presenter Chris Evans. The couple exchanged vows in 1991, before separating three years later. Their divorce was finalized in 1998.
It came just weeks after Carol launched a scathing attack on the ITV panel show that made her famous.
Last year, MailOnline revealed that she had been forced to quit after a bizarre radio tirade in which she claimed the Covid pandemic was a plot by the World Health Organisation to take over all governments.
Carol, who has appeared on the programme on and off since it started in 2000, criticised the programme as ‘very woke’ and ‘don’t miss it at all’.
When asked about her worst celebrity encounter, Lisa told the Livin’ Lavida Loca podcast, “I know this one. Her name is… what’s her name? She’s rude, you know?”
Struggling to remember Carol’s name, Lisa said, “She had… she was old, short bob, gray, blond hair. She had a young boyfriend.”
She continued, “She had really short hair, and she started dating a really young guy, and it went to her head. I had to check her out.”
Speaking about her dramatic departure, Carol told Women’s Own magazine: ‘No, I don’t miss Loose Women at all. My pronouns are P and Off. It’s just very woke and I can’t deal with the wokeness.
“That’s not why I’m not here. I’m not here because of other things.”
She added that she misses her fellow actors, but “doesn’t miss being on TV.”
MailOnline contacted ITV at the time for comment.
Carol announced in May that she had left the lunchtime show, protesting that ITV was demanding she sign a contract with clauses that were “wholly unfair and unenforceable”.
The Mail on Sunday subsequently reported that a row over freedom of speech was the reason for her departure, after her tirade in an interview on TNT talk radio was widely criticised.
In the interview, the original panelist also accused reputable mainstream news organizations of conspiring to brainwash the public into causing mass mental collapse after being “bought off by the government.”
Carol added that she believed the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock was trying to bring in Covid patients from France to fill “empty hospital beds” in Britain at the height of the pandemic.
ITV’s management received widespread criticism on social media over her tirade, while others called the channel to demand that she be sacked.
Carol, who was married to DJ Chris Evans from 1991 to 1998, last appeared on Loose Women on March 2, a week before her TNT Radio interview for The Freeman Report with James Freeman.
It comes just weeks after Carol launched a scathing attack on the ITV panel show that made her famous (pictured on the show in 2022)
Last year, MailOnline revealed that she had been forced to quit after a bizarre radio tirade in which she claimed the Covid pandemic was a plot by the World Health Organisation to take over every government
She was a regular on Loose Women from 2000 to 2013 and again from 2018.
But in her radio interview she criticised the programme, one of ITV’s most popular daytime shows, and suggested she was being censored by bosses.
She said: ‘I always look back at when I started working in television and radio as the good old days, because there was a lot less control then, I think. A lot less restrictions and it was a freer place to be.
‘When I look back at the old Loose Women that I did from 2000 until I left in 2013, they’re completely different. There’s so much offence. People take so much offence to so many things, which they never used to.’