Carol Smillie breaks silence after Changing Rooms reboot snub – and claims she was forced out of TV for being ‘too old’
thesun.co.ukCAROL Smilie claims she's been forced out of television for being too old. The presenter, who famously hosted 13 series of Changing Rooms in the 90s and early noughties, was snubbed for the rebooted version of the show which returned on Channel 4 last year.
And Carol, 60, says ageism towards women in the industry is the reason she's turned her back on the small screen. Speaking on the How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams podcast, she said: "There've been moments in my life.
I've felt a bit sort of, you know, foot stampy and angry about it."They've just been sort of isolated incidents because I think what we do for a living is quite unusual for, you know, a lot of people.
It's not a normal job and therefore the the whole age thing in television is, that is the only thing. "I might feel a wee bit sometimes, you think 'oh, come on how can a man carry on into his seventies or beyond on TV?', but it's just unthinkable for a woman to do the same, apart from maybe Gloria [Hunniford], but they put her on daytime and it's kind of, you know, it's a sort of token.
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