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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel McGrath

Strictly Come Dancing star told by ex BBC boss to quit TV to ‘make way for younger women’

Angela Rippon has revealed that a BBC boss told her to quit TV to “make way for younger women” when she was 50, labelling the suggestion “a very misogynistic thing to say”.

The veteran star, now 81, started her career at the broadcaster in the 1970s and became the first female journalist given a permanent role fronting the BBC’s national Nine O’Clock News in 1975.

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