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Complaints Welcome. Top Catchup TV. The X Factor Results. The X Factor. Match of the Day 2. Match of the Day. Sir Trevor McDonald, an inspiration to so many including me and host of this one-off episode, took the news in his inimitable gentlemanly style. Being a beer sommelier yes, it is a thing! But why so many Black people on one iconic show at once? Why rehash old shows with Black people shoehorned in?

Even still, she took herself to LA and within months took global audiences by storm with her incredible Netflix special all about her exploits. Hughes nailed her American Dream. I, on the other hand, was offered a US opportunity once and turned my back on it in the name of true love.

TV hirers and firers in the past have routinely locked African and Caribbean people out of being front and centre on the majority of mainstream TV or Radio programmes. Representation matters. Is she good enough?

Her hair does not look professional. Going out on dawn drug raids with the police? Done it. Daily reporting from crown court on gruesome cases? Hosting talk shows on national radio stations? Presenting rolling news programmes for Sky News and Arise News? On a lifestyle show. How dare I. Pardon me for breathing.

Yes, Risky Hire Syndrome has been and still is a precarious reality for women like me: dark-skinned, Black and over years-old. I have never been sporty my svelte figure is living proof. I cannot tell jokes and I have never appeared on a reality TV show.