ITV’s iconic female presenters were celebrated in a stunning photo in the run-up to International Women’s Day on March 8

Loose Women have explained why panellist Stacey Solomon was missing from the group photo celebrating female presenters.

The 32-year-old was nowhere to be seen in the stunning photo, which featured ITV’s iconic women.

The presenters were photographed by Amy Brammall earlier this month in the run-up to International Women’s Day on March 8.

A photo of the women, including Alison Hammond and Holly Willoughby, was shared to Loose Women’s and This Morning’s Instagram pages.

“After almost two years apart, the female hosts of Daytime are coming together to celebrate International Women’s Day!” the caption read.

“Watch the special video, filmed earlier this month, on the This Morning app now.”

The photo included all the current Loose Women, Josie Gibson, Rochelle Humes, Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Ranvir Singh and Charlotte Hawkins.

Stacey was missing from the photo

It was to celebrate International Women’s Day
Fans were too concerned about Stacey’s whereabouts to focus on the gorgeous snap.

Taking to the comment section, one user asked: “Where’s Stacey Solomon?”

“Beautiful pic but Where’s stacey x,” another wrote.

Another added: “Lovely photo but I’m gunna say they were photo shopped together and yes where is Stacey Stacey Solomon?”

A few also asked where fellow Loose Women panellist Judi Love was.

A representative for the talk show said: “Stacey was still on maternity leave when the shoot took place.”

It is unknown where Judi was during the photo shoot.

Stacey and partner Joe Swash welcomed their first daughter, Rose, on her birthday in October.

Sharing the first glimpse of her newborn at the time, Stacey wrote: “So to my family on here. Yesterday I got the best birthday present I could have wished for.”

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Three months later, the star returned to work but complained that her time off was too short.

Sharing an adorable video of her feeding her baby on Instagram, Stacey read out a question from a fan that said: “Why do you only get three months maternity leave?”

The Loose Women host replied: “So many of you are messaging me, I know it’s not long enough. I could be in this bubble forever.

“But I’ve got one of those weird jobs and you never know if you’re going to get work or not and nothing is guaranteed, so you’ve just got to make the most of any opportunity that comes along.

“Also a lot of my contracts are 12 months that I squeezed into nine months so I could have the three months off and I don’t think I could squeeze them into any less.”