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Tess Daly's 'tears' after BBC colleague branded her 'pneumatic bird-brain'
Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly is much-loved after presenting the show for 20 years – yet another BBC presenter once dubbed her a 'bird brain' in an resurfaced interview
In a resurfaced interview from 2013, when mum-of-two Tess was speaking ahead of Strictly's 11th series, the TV presenter also addressed the criticism she received for the part she played in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee coverage. At the time, her fellow BBC presenter Michael Buerk issued a particularly scathing statement where he branded Tess a "pneumatic bird-brain." In a furious broadside, he ranted that the "Dunkirk Little Ships, the most evocative reminders of this country’s bravest hour" had been overlooked in favour of "a pneumatic bird-brain from Strictly Come Dancing" conducting interviews in London's Battersea Park.
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