Loose Women ‘bully row’ star Kaye Adams has been axed from her £155,000 a year BBC radio show after three misconduct complaints were upheld against her.
A disciplinary probe found Ms Adams had been found guilty of inappropriate behaviour allegedly swearing at a colleague, throwing a pen at another and berated an intern’s professional ability.
The Mail can reveal that BBC bosses have already lined up her replacement – broadcaster and DJ Grant Stott.
Two complaints of bullying against 63-year-old Ms Adams were not upheld and she has now parted company with the BBC.
Staff who worked on her show, Mornings with Kaye Adams, were briefed a week ago not to expect her return to the station.
It comes months after the long-serving broadcaster was suspended by the BBC, initially claiming she had not been told why, or what the allegations against her were.
One incident, where Ms Adams is said to have used the offensive c-word against a colleague, is believed to have taken place more than a decade ago and resulted in the person refusing to work on the show that day.
Another colleague was asked to step in just minutes before the show was due to go on air, sources told the Mail.
Loose Women star Kaye Adams was embroiled in a bullying row and has now been axed from her £155,000-a-year radio show after three misconduct complaints were upheld against her
Adams pictured in Glasgow last October shortly after it was revealed that she had been suspended from the BBC
In another incident, Ms Adams is said to have lobbed a pen at a producer in frustration at an element of the day’s programme.
One former colleague said the licence-payer-funded broadcaster had taken action against Ms Adams too late.
They said: ‘Senior producers acknowledged how difficult she was but did very little to protect the staff team from the excesses of her behaviour. Tears were common and stress levels through the roof, for everyone.’
The mother of two worked at BBC Scotland for 15 years until she was unceremoniously suspended on October 7 last year.
She had her own phone-in show, Call Kaye, before it moved to a new format called ‘Mornings with…’, which she presented several times a week.
Ms Adams is still a regular panellist and presenter on ITV’s Loose Women, which previously said it was standing by the star.
Many of her fellow presenters have come out in support of her since her suspension, including Denise Welch and Nadia Sawalha.
She also hosts a weekly podcast, How to Be 60, with Karen MacKenzie where she has previously spoken about the stress she has been under during the BBC probe.
A disciplinary probe found Ms Adams had been found guilty of inappropriate behaviour including allegedly swearing at a colleague, throwing a pen at another and berating an intern’s professional ability
Just last month she admitted she had lost weight and ‘hadn’t felt like eating’ and previously told the Mail on Sunday her name had been ‘dragged through the mud’.
Her friends said they feared there had been a ‘witch-hunt’ against her by new BBC Scotland radio boss Victoria Easton-Riley, who was appointed in May 2025.
Within six months Ms Easton-Riley had scrapped the station’s longest-running programme, Good Morning Scotland, and replaced it with Radio Scotland Breakfast, presented by Martin Geissler and Laura Maciver.
A month later it was announced four more programmes – late-night music shows – would be scrapped along with their presenters Iain Anderson, Roddy Hart, Billy Sloan and Natasha Raskin Sharp.
Insiders previously said the move against Ms Adams came after a team meeting was observed by the new boss who witnessed behaviour she found concerning, prompting her to speak to colleagues about the star.
It came after the corporation launched its latest anti-harassment campaign called ‘Call It Out’ which encouraged employees to report conduct which they found unacceptable.
That scheme was set up in response to an independent report into BBC workplace culture which found a small number of stars and managers ‘behave unacceptably’ and bosses often fail to tackle them.
It was commissioned in the wake of the Huw Edwards scandal, when the former news anchor admitted possessing child abuse images.
Then MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace was sacked after a report upheld 45 allegations about his behaviour including unwelcome physical contact and being in a state of undress.
BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty is currently under formal investigation after complaints of bullying were made against her, although she still remains on air.
BBC chairman Samir Shah previously said some powerful people still make life ‘unbearable’ for their colleagues and told presenters: ‘After today, let me state it clearly, if you think you’re too big a star or too important to live by the values of this organisation, not only are you wrong, but we will find you out.’
Ms Adams was approached for comment.