The surprise wasn't so much the BBC has that opinion but that she was involved in the workshop at all at WPUK - she didn't seem to know what the day was about at all. And then there was make up advice from TV presenter.
I was also at the workshop with the BBC women. There were four women giving advice on different aspects of engaging with the media - writing press releases, using social media to promote your cause to the media, giving media interviews and how to present yourself if doing a tv interview. (Think I've remembered that correctly.)
The one on presenting yourself while doing a tv interview just gave sensible advice such as wearing a block colour rather than patterns, because it works better on tv, wearing a jacket so you could attach the mic to it rather than threading it up under your clothes, wearing some foundation and powder if you didn't normally wear makeup (also the case for men), brushing your hair and then stuff about looking at the interviewer rather than the camera. If you were interviewed on Skype, make sure you look directly at the screen and don't have anything distracting in the background. That all seemed to me to be pretty uncontroversial and also helpful for anyone doing tv interviews.
One of the women is involved in an initiative in the BBC called 50/50, which is about getting equal proportions of male and female interviewees. She brought a document with her that used the word "gender" and when it was pointed out to her she promised to change it to the word "sex".
I found the workshop really useful.