Politicians and comics dispute Ian Hislop’s comments approximately reasons for lack of female hosts on panel exhibit In 2007,Ann Widdecombe, then a Conservative MP, and presented the topical BBC1 comedy exhibit Have I Got News For You for the moment time. She is still the only female politician to have sat in the host’s chair. One of the team captains,Paul Merton, said this week that having her host it was his “worst experience” with a politician on the exhibit, and that she had been arrogant. But watch it again and,no matter how you feel approximately her politics, it’s not Widdecombe who comes across badly. She does a good job against the four often surly and contemptuous male panellists who constantly interrupt and undermine her.
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Source: guardian.co.uk