The series, a mix of celebrity interviews, household tips, cookery and phone-ins lasted approximately two hours each weekday morning on ITV.
Both Richard and Judy accepted the award, in which Finnigan suffered a wardrobe malfunction which exposed her bra to the audience at the Royal Albert Hall and television viewers.
[3] In 2001, the couple left This Morning, having been approached by Channel 4[4] to host a similar show, simply called Richard & Judy, shown for an hour in the early evenings.
While Madeley and Finnigan urged callers to continue entering, it was confirmed that winners were picked in the first ten minutes of the show.
The couple both deny being involved in the scam[5] that was revealed by The Mail on Sunday newspaper after it was sold the story through media publicist Jonathan Hartley.
In July 2008, Finnigan finally underwent a long-awaited knee operation and took a short leave of absence from the show to recuperate fully from the surgery.
[7] On 13 October 2014, it was announced that Finnigan had joined ITV chat show Loose Women as a regular panellist.
[8][9] On her first day, 13 October 2014, Finnigan was criticised when the panel discussed footballer Ched Evans, who was convicted of rape in 2012 before being acquitted in 2016 after two witnesses, who were offered a £50,000 reward for testimony leading to an acquittal, testified to having consensual sex with Evans' alleged victim around the time of the alleged rape.
[10][11] Finnigan stated that Evans should be able to return to his club as the victim was drunk and the alleged rape was "unpleasant" but "not violent".
[10] Finnigan presented a series of video-only specials, looking at a particular character of Coronation Street and were released in 1995 to mark the soap's 35th anniversary.
Finnigan, and her husband, Richard Madeley, were the subjects of This Is Your Life in 1997 when they were surprised by Michael Aspel live on air while broadcasting This Morning.