Flawless at 66, Selina’s back on the Beeb af ter 30 years
AS she gets set to star on BBC for the first time in 30 years, Selina Scott seems to have barely aged a day since her last appearance.
The 66-year-old, who was the face of the BBC’s breakfast TV on its launch in 1983, showed off her flawless complexion as she posed in a pink flapper minidress with a pair of 1920s heels.
She is set to return to the BBC in the third series of The Real Marigold Hotel, in which a group of older celebrities travels around India.
Ms Scott, who visited the city of Udaipur in western India, will star with Dynasty actress Stephanie Beacham, comedian Syd Little, and Boris Johnson’s father Stanley, who won fans with his recent appearance on I’m A Celebrity.
Ms Scott said: ‘Stanley Johnson was outrageous. He wanted me to take my clothes off and go swimming with him in the lake. But knowing what goes into lakes in India, don’t even ask, I made an excuse and said I wouldn’t go in naked and hadn’t brought my costume. Even that didn’t put him off. “Well just strip down to your bra and pants, Selina,” he suggested, before diving in. Well I wasn’t doing that, either.’
The BBC1 show – to be aired later this year – marks the first time Ms Scott has appeared in a BBC series since leaving for a job in the US in 1988. In 2008, Scott sued Channel Five for ageism, claiming bosses backed out of an offer to present news bulletins because of her age. They reached a settlement said to be worth about £250,000 (€203,000).
Since retreating from the limelight, Ms Scott has set up a firm in Malton, Yorkshire, England, that makes socks out of goat wool.