is treading on some very thin ice. Her future already in doubt with bosses after her daytime show was slashed from an hour to just 30 minutes, and reduced from 52 weeks a year to just 30, she's decided to take the mickey and go off work for half term. Again.

Actually, it seems 30 might be Lorraine's unlucky number. Her 30-year-old daughter Rosie used to be, ostensibly, the reason she took half term off. But now Rosie is a grown woman with a child of her own, so Lorraine is no longer tied to term time and school holidays any longer. She doesn't need to cover childcare when she's at the office. And her granddaughter Billie isn't even one yet, meaning she won't be starting school for a few years.

Look, I'm the first to say everyone deserves a holiday. But for a woman who currently only has to work an hour a day, and soon only 30 minutes a day, does she really need so much time off while boasting an estimated salary of £568,000 a year from ITV alone?

Maybe that's unfair. After all, Lorraine does also write a weekly column for The Sun and The Sunday Post. But you know what? I write articles for a living too, and I'm not afforded such luxuries.

On the surface of it, Lorraine is "working on a new project". She announced she would be absent from her show to head up north to film something else - but, again, why she couldn't do that in the heaps of time her show isn't on air is a mystery. She could even chime into Lorraine via video link.

Instead, it falls again and again to her relief presenters, and Christine Lampard. What I find particularly unfair and unfunny is that the show retains Lorraine's name instead of temporarily being rebranded ITV's Ranvir or ITV's Christine.

I'm still mourning the loss of the original Where is Lorraine? X account, which tracked the percentage of shows she turned up for. Lorraine was, of course, absent on Fridays to take care of her mother - which is totally understandable, as family has to come first - but her half-term frolics, I think, deserve to be held to account.

Can we start a new account which tracks when she does actually show up during school holidays? I think it will be interesting to see what happens come the six-week summer break, which she usually has a stand-in presenter for. With Lorraine already on thin ice with ITV HQ, can she really risk another extended absence? I think not.