Strictly too revealing for Lynda Bellingham

Just when the dust on Arlene-gate has settled, Strictly Come Dancing has been hit by another ageism row, the Daily Telegraph reports. Lynda Bellingham, 61, the former Oxo mum and former star of All Creatures Great and Small, has claimed that the show discriminates against older women. Her reason? The revealing costumes that the women dancers were forced to wear. Says Bellingham: "The body image took a battering, I must confess. I had not really taken on board how I would feels in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people." Writing in Yours magazine, Bellingham confessed that she hated her flabby upper arms. Despite some clever costumes, "I never forgot they were there", she told Yours magazine.