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Leigh-Anne Pinnock says she was excluded from radio's sexiest female list over black skin

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Pregnant Leigh-Anne Pinnock believes she was left off Capital FM's sexiest female list for years because of the colour of her skin.

The 29-year-old Little Mix star, who fronts a new BBC documentary about racism in the music industry, says the fact her bandmates were included every year made her feel something wasn't 'right'. "There was one time when a radio station, they were doing 'sexiest female'.

They'd do it every year and all the other girls had been nominated every single year except for me," she said ahead of Thursday's documentary debut on BBC's iPlayer. "And it got to maybe 2017 or something and I finally got nominated. "It's these little things that you look back on and you think, 'There's something not right here'," she added.

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