Vanessa Feltz has joined the ever growing list of celebrities lining up to blast the BBC for their recent sacking of Strictly Come Dancing’s Arlene Phillips.

Phillips is being replaced by Alesha Dixon and Darcey Russell on the show, a move which Feltz finds despicable.

Writing in her column for the Daily Express, Feltz commented: “Somewhere it is written that when a woman reaches a certain age she must be bundled out of sight and stuck far away where no one is in danger of traumatising themselves by looking at her haggard visage.

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