Alex Kingston, surgeon Elizabeth Corday in ER, thinks she could be written out of the Channel 4 series because she is 41. “I suddenly felt very old surrounded by these young twentysomethings. Does it mean I’m the geriatric who’s being pushed out because she is too old?”
The Telegraph
“I’m fed up with snogging oldies,” says Scarlett Johansson, 19
The Sun
There is a level of personal vitriol being passed out to women over 50 that is rarely levelled at the men in reality TV shows.
Natasha Walter, The Guardian
In Hamburg last week, cops spotted an Audi crawling through the city and discovered a 102-year-old man behind the wheel. He explained that he had had his licence taken away from him by the authorities a few weeks earlier because of his age and needed the car only to get to the bus stop because he was too old and frail to walk.
Kevin Eason, The Times, from Peter A Rushforth, Bradford
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