To be annoyed about male and female tv presenters?

[anothernamechangerreally]

When there are two presenters on tv together, invariably there will be an older man and a young woman. I can't think of a show presented by an older woman and a young guy. However I can think of plenty the other way round.

Aibu to think this is unfair, ageist and sexist?!

YANBU, at all. I'm sick of this too. Have you been watching Terry Wogan and Tess Daley on children in need by any chance? Bruce Forsythe is another example.

Yep exactly! And then Tess left and the even younger Fearne Cotton swans in.

I have nothing against the women themselves, it's just worrying that in a decade or so they will be "too old" whereas their male counterparts will still be working. Not fair!!

watchdog? the men on that cant be older than Ann thingy

Yea - Eamon Holmes on Sky in the morning with lots of blonde younger females fawning around him.

And I have just posted on a CIN thread complaining about Tess Daly draping herself all over Tez. Euch.

The likes of Wigan and Forsythe working way beyond retirement age for money they can't possibly need also blocks new presenters getting a chance.

Wogan*

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10306374/Harriet-Harman-Why-is-it-OK-for-male-TV-presenters-to-go-grey-but-not-women.html

Yep hadn't thought of watchdog. Still think they are too few programmes with older women/younger men though.

It really riles me!

Thanks for the link happy. I think age was being generous saying 50+ tbh!

More like 40+, max!

drives me crazy
Bruce Forsyth is so past his sell-b y date, it's ridiculous. It's so dated, old fashioned, misogynist blah blah blah

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485828/Sir-Terry-Wogan-claims-young-female-TV-presenters-use-looks-best-jobs.html

Daily fail link...

To paraphrase...female presenters can't complain when they get the boot as their looks got then the job in the first place!!!! Nice one Wogan

I saw that one too anothernamechangerreally . Just wasn't brave enough to link a DailyMail article on AIBU! He is a t*&t

YADNBU!
It drives me insane! It's very often the case with news presenters and news correspondents across all channels. If you're a man, you can be any combination of really old, really ugly and really fat and still hold onto your top job. In contrast, women are out on their ear if they dare to be just a little bit old, and they'd never make it on TV in the first place if they were ugly or fat. Why do we put up with it?
Tess Daley really annoys me, she's clearly not thick but her 'Terry/Bruce, you're so funny and legendary let me be your gushing giggly side-kick' routine makes me sick!

Well he is right in that it would be better if women were hired on merit rather than looks in the first place. He's about the last person who should be expressing an opinion on the subject though.

It's the law. Older women aren't allowed to appear on TV. The radio's fine but not TV. And definitely not looking like they're lording it over younger men.

In the wake of a multimillion-pound contract for David Dimbleby, now 74, two years ago, Ford said: "I wonder how these charming dinosaurs such as Mr Dimbleby and John Simpson [68] continue to procure contracts with the BBC, when, however hard I look, I fail to see any woman of the same age, the same intelligence and the same rather baggy looks."

It happens in films. Romantic pairings between men and women 20 years apart in age, and not presented as an age-gap relationship

Good point about Watchdog, though

I think Tess Daly is looking increasingly uncomfortable with Bruce Forsyth. She's 40-odd. It's undignified to be presented as a "bit of stuff" She's more comfortable co-presenting with Claudia Winkelman

... actually, undignified at any age!! But I mean she looks like she is actually pissed off about it now

Haha, yeah daily mail link is rubbish I know!

Totally agree they should be hired in merit rather than looks. Although is that hard to differentiate between? I think Fearne, Holly etc are fine presenters. But were they hired based on their looks? I don't know...

I can't see them being on tv so much if they looked less aesthetically pleasing.

YANBU

Alex Jones is a year older than Matt Baker. I think they are both lovely, very natural and professional. None of the horrible awkwardness of the Terry Wogan pairings. Poor Tess, from Bruce to Tel.

'It happens in films. Romantic pairings between men and women 20 years apart in age, and not presented as an age-gap relationship'

This really winds me up. Nothing wrong with an age gap but at least acknowledge it. I remember watching some awful old crime caper starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery as a glamorous cat burglar couple. She was 30ish and he was 70ish but never a mention made about the 40 bloody year age gap. Come on!

What about Des O'Connor and Melanies Sykes' chat show? He was about 200 and she was in her late thirties.