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Zoe Ball's veteran TV host father Johnny, 88, hits out at BBC 'ageism' and claims she lost Radio 2 gig because she was 'over 50'
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Promoting his new book An Autobiography: Stories That Have To Be Told at The Dorchester Literary Festival, he told the audience: 'I did Play School for 17 years, I wrote nearly all of Play Away then I did Think Of A Number and Think Again. 'I loved every minute of it.
He is a lovely bloke and I have met him a couple of times but he is not a domineering comedian as some comedians like Bruce Forsyth were. 'When I did Strictly, and I only did three shows, but on each show I gave Brucie a joke and he used them and he said to me ''I have got a writer here and he does
Last year, four BBC broadcast news presenters, Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh, dropped their tribunal over age and sex discrimination allegations on unknown terms.
The Independent has contacted the BBC for comment.
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