Vanessa Feltz has broken her silence after being 'blindsided' by Channel 5 bosses' decision to axe her daytime chat show after just one year on air.

The seasoned presenter, 64, was brought into a meeting this week and told the news by Channel 5 bosses, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Vanessa Feltz’s lunchtime show has been beset by callers pretending to be ‘EastEnders’ characters

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Vanessa Feltz has addressed some of her struggles in the early 2000s and argued that while people were very excited by the introduction of reality TV, vetting is now too 'sketchy'

Vanessa Feltz has broken her silence after her daytime chat show was cancelled by Channel 5 after just a year, admitting that she was 'shocked to the core'

Vanessa Feltz has broken her silence after being 'blindsided' by Channel 5 bosses' decision to axe her daytime chat show after just one year on air.

Bosses of Vanessa Feltz's Channel 5 show reportedly had to step in and offer an apology to a caller when the TV star wrongly assumed it was just one in a long line of pranksters