Selina Scott has launched a legal action against television tV channel Five over perceived long time discrimination.
The giver, 57, has claimed she had been earmarked to replace Natasha Kaplinsky on Five News during the latter's gestation leave, only to be overlooked.
And Scott, a former BBC Breakfast presenter, has levelled against an years discrimination call against the channel, alleging that Five reneged on an agreement.
A Tribunals Service spokeswoman aforesaid Scott's caseful was "at an early stage".
In response, a Five spokesman said: "We do not swallow this claim and will be vigorously defending it."
Thirty-two-year-old Matt Barbet and Isla Traquair, 28, were announced as Kaplinsky's replacements in June.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newsprint earlier this year, Scott said she was "profoundly saddened" by the declining presence of older women on TV.
"How many women are there on mainstream current personal business programmes wHO are over 50?" she said in January.
"Anna Ford has retired, Moira Stuart has been bumped off, withal you search around and see slews of work force."
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