I didn’t expect to be working at 60, Langsford says
TV PRESENTER Ruth Langsford says she is “quite excited” about turning 60 and admits she didn’t expect to be still working at this age.
The broadcaster, whose landmark birthday is tomorrow, said that “everything is going really well” in her life, so she is ready to embrace the milestone age.
She also said that she is surprised to still be working on the small screen because previously
“women were farmed off when they hit 40”.
Langsford told the new edition of Hello! magazine: “I can’t quite believe I have reached the big 6-0 because when you are in your 20s, you think it’s really old. But actually I am quite excited about it.
“I am very happy in my life. “I have got a very happy marriage, a lovely family, I love my work and my career, so everything is going really well.” Her broadcasting career started about 30 years ago as a continuity announcer and evening news presenter for the ITV regional station, Television South West, before she moved into national television.
She is now best known for being a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women, a role she has had on and off since 1999, and for being This Morning’s relief host along with her husband, Eamonn Holmes. Langsford said: “I didn’t think I would still be working in television at 60 because when I was in my 30s you didn’t see 60-year-old women in television.
“Women were farmed off when they hit 40.
“But it’s very different now and that’s thanks to those who forged the way for older women – people like Gloria Hunniford and Janet Street-Porter.”