Why Are There So Many Slim Female Weather Presenters?
As I travel around the country, I have probably watched BBC News or Breakfast in perhaps seven to ten regions.
Over recent years, the proportion of weather presenters, who I see on the BBC who are slim and female, seems to have grown.
It is a rare event to see a stocky male weather presenter.
I am not complaining, but after watching Alina Jenkins doing the UK weather and Elizabeth Rizzini doing the London weather, I had a thought.
Both ladies are slim and they were wearing dresses with elbow length sleeves, which showed off slim arms.
With all the pointing and waving that weather presenters do, it struck me that the reason there are no many slim female presenters could be that there is less of them to get in the way of the information on the screen. Presenters too, are often squeezed into a narrow vertical space at the side of the screen.
So is it just about getting more information on the screen?
Earlier this week Lucy Martin, who lost most of her right arm at birth was presenting the London weather in a sleeveless white dress.
She has to do everything with her left hand and her performance is as polished and confident as anybody else.
You do wonder though, that as she can’t use her other hand for balance as we all do in a presentation, she actually can give a less busy and more professional performance.
The Anonymous Widower 
Talking about Lucy Martin, I wondered how she does her bra up when she gets dressed. I can only assume she does the hooks and puts the bra on the floor, then steps into it and uses her arm to lift the bra upwards in till It’s in position.
Also, why hasn’t she got a prosthetic arm?
Comment by mauricegreed | August 23, 2018 |
One of my late wife’s swimming friends had been badly affected by Thalidomide. She never had any help! I read somewhere that as a child Lucy ised to tie her classmates’ shoe laces with the one hand.
Comment by AnonW | August 23, 2018 |