Webber Admits Denise Van Outen Was Axed from Show Due to Pregnancy

March 29, 2010 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has admitted that Denise Van Outen was fired from the new show Over the Rainbow due to her being pregnant.

Last month Van Outen claimed that she failed to get the job as a judge on Over the Rainbow because she was pregnant. Despite her claims the BBC insisted that they just took a different direction with the show and it had nothing to do with Denise’s pregnancy.

However, now Andrew Lloyd Webber, as come out and admitted that Denise’s pregnancy did play a role in why she was not hired for the show as she thought she was going to be.

“The truth is that she is having a baby,” he said. “I’m a great friend of Denise, I wish her the absolute best, but we have to think of our girls on the show. It wouldn’t be fair on the girls if we had to draft somebody in for three shows who hadn’t been working with them.”

Webber has said that it was not his choice to axe Denise.

Denise has said that she is “disappointed” that she was dropped from the show as it is something that she is “passionate about.”

Denise and her husband Lee Mead are expecting their first child, a girl in May.