BBC star brilliantly fires back after being told skirt is ‘too short for 44-year-old’

Nina Warhurst shut down a viewer’s misogynistic and ageist comment (Picture: BBC One / Breakfast)

BBC presenter Nina Warhurst expertly skewered a viewer for their ‘uninvited feedback’ on her appearance.

The X user had said the journalist’s skirt was ‘too short for a 44-year-old’ after watching her on News At One.

On her Instagram Stories, Nina responded: ‘When you briefly check back with Twitter/X because surely it can’t be the stream of uninvited feedback from men you don’t remember, and…oh hi there.’

The BBC viewer also exhibited snobbery towards Warhurst’s accent and said it was ‘pleasing’ there’s a ‘very positive move towards received pronunciation.’

Nina sarcastically quipped: ‘Translation: if you’re gonna look like an old trout, it’s more acceptable if you don’t sound Mancunian. Noted.’ 

Last year, the former BBC Breakfast presenter quit social media after hitting breaking point.

Nina called out the ‘uninvited feedback’ from the X user (Picture: Instagram/ninawarhurst__) They had said her skirt was ‘too short for a 44-year-old’ (Picture: @BBCFrediani/X)

‘Enough is enough,’ she wrote on Instagram as she announced she was taking a break from the platform for ‘a few weeks.’

Nina shared: ‘Signing off from Insta for a few weeks. I love this site. I don’t take myself, or the apparently perfect lives of others, too seriously.

‘I howl laughing every day from a scarily accurate meme. I connect with lovely people who I don’t get to see IRL. And there are loads of cats and babies.

‘Maybe I love it too much… Because I’ve found myself scrolling all. The. Time. Catching up on people’s stories, having a nosey at how people live who have nothing to do with me, and (the absolute grossest) checking for likes… Enough is enough.’

Warhurst also highlighted the viewer’s snobbery over accents (Picture: BBC)

In March, Nina revealed she was stepping down from BBC Breakfast after seven years.

She began reporting for the programme in 2018 before being appointed its main business presenter in 2020, succeeding Steph McGovern.

Announcing her departure and new role at News At One, Nina wrote on X: ‘Hanging up the high-viz & hairnet as I join the BBC’s News at One.

‘Our London team built a gem of a programme & it’s a privilege to be on the Salford team taking it forward.

Nina previously announced she was taking a break from social media (Picture: ninawarhurst_ / Instagram)

‘(… the teenaged me who lived half a mile from here & dreamed of journalism would NOT believe it).’

Nina started her on-screen career as an actor in shows like Casualty and ITV miniseries Butterfly Collectors in the late 90s.

She then moved to broadcasting for Russia Today in Moscow, before moving to Channel M and eventually joining the BBC in 2010.

Nina presented regional news for East Midlands Today, as well as BBC North West Tonight and Sunday Politics in North West.

The mum-of-three has also covered the 2014 World Cup in Brazil for BBC Sport, and was appointed political editor at BBC North West in 2016.

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