Loose Women race row as Charlene White reveals FIVE people mistook her for Brenda Edwards in one day
LOOSE Women's Charlene White has told how she was mistaken for her co-star Brenda Edwards five times in one day.
The TV star and newsreader, 42, explained she was left "upset" after attending an industry event yesterday.
Posting on Twitter, Charlene wrote: "I’m used to being mistaken for my other black @loosewomen ladies. We all are tbh.
"Some ppl are too lazy to work out black women don’t all look alike.
"But I’ve spent today at a do with my LW fam where multiple times I was called Brenda. My response? 'No, I’m the other black one.'"
She continued: "You have no idea how many black women in the public eye get mistaken for each other. It happens routinely.
"Not just us, to many minority women & men on a daily basis. It upset me more than usual today, probably because it happened to a few of us at the Pride parade on Sat too."
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Charlene continued: "We all laugh it off. A LOT. We share stories about the times that we were mistaken for each other.
"But, we shouldn’t have to. We really shouldn’t. But we’re expected to just smile and move on.
"It impacts us all: your colleagues, your neighbours etc. Just stop being lazy."
She explained: "The first 4 times it happened today I shrugged it off. But the 5th time was as I was leaving, by someone who’d spent 10mins having a chat.
"I honestly left feeling that it doesn’t matter where you are in life, some ppl will always mistake you for the other black girl in the office."
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Congratulated by followers on Twitter, the star insisted: "I’m done being polite about it."
Charlene, the first black woman to front ITV News at Ten - which she did in 2014 - joined the Loose Women panel last year.
Musicals actress and singer Brenda first appeared on the show as a panellist in 2019.
She is now a regular alongside the likes of Janet Street-Porter, Linda Robson and Judi Love.
