Samira back to work after BBC pay win
ITV warned amid city’s drought crisis
TRIBUNAL Samira Ahmed
SAMIRA Ahmed has vowed to keep working for the BBC after winning her sex discrimination case.
The BBC1 Newswatch presenter won her tribunal after complaining Jeremy Vine was paid £3,000 a show while she got £440.
Samira, 51, who claimed she was owed £700,000 by the Beeb, said yesterday: “No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer.
“I’m now looking forward to continuing to do my job.”
The Central London tribunal ruled Vine’s show Points of View and Newswatch were comparable.
The BBC had argued Vine’s profile was higher.
The BBC said: “Samira Ahmed is an excellent journalist and presenter, and we regret this case ever had to go to tribunal.”
Glam twins Eve and Jess Gale
PRESENTER Laura Whitmore fears that Love Island could ruin her relationship with narrator Iain Stirling if he cracks too many jokes about her.
Previously, Iain would announce “the Flack is back” when former host Caroline Flack entered the villa, and Laura says
Iain spent
Christmas squirrelled away with his co-writer, telling Laura his quips about her will be “for me to know and you to find out”.
“It could be the end of our relationship,” she grimaces. “I have no idea what he is going to say and no control over that because I record the coming-in stuff before he does the voiceover. I will be back in London when he is doing the recording. He is a bit of a liability, so I don’t know what I have let myself in for but he has to come back and live with me, so...”
The couple have been dating since 2017. Over the past two years, Laura, 34, says she has noticed “sneaky” references to her emerging in 31-year-old Iain’s comedy routines.
But she added: “I come off better than he does. He knows what line not to cross.”
Laura was asked to replace Caroline after she stepped down in December following an assault charge.
EX-HOST Caroline Flack
A ROW may be bubbling up over the Love Island hot tub, with bosses warned to use it “sparingly and wisely” during filming in drought-stricken South Africa. The winter show is using a villa in Cape Town and local officials have asked ITV to “be considerate” when filling the tub for contestants to flirt in.
The city almost ran dry three years ago and is still recovering Sputnik Ratau, of the Department for Water and Sanitation, said: “Where there is an overt kind of activity that really almost shows as if there is no consideration for proper water conservation, that would be a concern for us.” Couples often get steamy in the hot tub outside the Hideaway bedroom, where housemates can spend time alone.
A Love Island source said: “We are, of course, acting in line with local guidelines.” Councillor Xanthea Limberg said there are no restrictions on hot
XANTHEA LIMBERG CAPE TOWN COUNCILLOR
Tub built for romance tubs but she added: “Saving water has become a way of life for us.”
She welcomed the film crew to Cape Town and said: “This industry creates a number of job opportunities.”
Twins Eve and Jess Gale, 20, are unlikely to be seen in the hot tub together. Jess said: “There won’t be a threesome in the villa.” She said any bloke making that suggestion always receives the same response.
She said: “We are like, ‘Shut it down’.”
■ Love Island starts tomorrow, ITV2, 9pm.
Saving water has become a way of life for us