I wouldn’t get on TV today because I’m white, a woman and middle-class says Crimewatch presenter Sue Cook

For many years, she was one of the top presenters on British television, but Sue Cook says she wouldn’t get on TV today because she’s a white middle-class woman.

Ms Cook fronted major BBC series such as Crimewatch, Children In Need, Breakfast Time and Nationwide in the 1980s and 90s. 

She was even a running joke on Steve Coogan‘s comedy series I’m Alan Partridge.

Now aged 77 and a novelist, Ms Cook admitted she was ‘glad’ she was on TV in the era she was, as she believes she would struggle to get on screen now.

Speaking on The Peter Purves Podcast, she said: ‘I

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