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Countryfile presenter sacked from show for 'not being pretty enough' but won tribunal


Charlotte Smith returned to the country and rural affairs programme in 2014 five years after four women were axed from the show at the same time leading to claims of ageism

Charlotte Smith was one of four female Countryfile presenters who were unceremoniously dropped from the programme back in 2009 due to alleged ageism. Also involved in the controversial reshuffling were Michaela Strachan, Juliet Morris and Miriam O'Reilly, who later achieved victory against the BBC in an employment tribunal. Charlotte Smith was one of four female Countryfile presenters who were unceremoniously dropped from the programmeShe will travel south along the trail towards Bodmin, where she finds out how this landscape inspired one family to pursue their dream of creating a vineyard.

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