Ten years on from her Changing Rooms heyday, Carol Smillie is beginning to feel frozen out from the industry.
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Julia Somerville has been hired by the BBC, along with Fiona Armstrong, 54, Zeinab Badawi, 51, and 50-year-old Carole Walker, to front the broadcaster’s News Channel and beat the ageism slurs and claims of age discrimination.
Insurance companies are penalising pensioners for being old by hiking up costs or, worse, refusing to cover them.