Carol Smillie claims she has been booted out of television because "she's too old".
The presenter, who was a huge hit in the nineties and early noughties wasn't invited back to host the rebooted version of Changing Rooms - despite hosting 13 series of the show.
Carol, 60, says ageism towards women in the industry is the reason why she's moved away from television.
Speaking on the How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams podcast, she pointed out how men can often work in TV into their seventies and beyond, but it's not the case for women.
"There've been moments in my life. I've felt a bit sort of, you know, foot stampy and angry about it.
"They've just been sort of isolated incidents because I think what we do for a living is quite unusual for, you know, a lot of people.
"It's not a normal job and therefore the the whole age thing in television is, that is the only thing," she explained.
Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, who is just three years younger than Carol, will be staying for the reboot.
He recently hit back at his former co-stars and explained that the revamp had to stop becoming "The Golden Girls of MDF".
"I might feel a wee bit sometimes, you think 'oh, come on how can a man carry on into his seventies or beyond on TV?'
"But it's just unthinkable for a woman to do the same, apart from maybe Gloria [Hunniford], but they put her on daytime and it's kind of, you know, it's a sort of token," she explained.
"It feels tokenism but you can get upset about it and you can rant and rave about it, she continued.
"It's probably not gonna change in my lifetime, unfortunately. That's just why I don't do it anymore. I just think it's better to move on and not get angry about things that you can't really change."
Kaye, 59, who is also on Loose Women alongside Gloria, asked Carol if that was the reason why she left the industry.
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"Yes, definitely. After 50, it's very obvious that the opportunities that come up are far less interesting, exciting, well paid, all of these things," she explained.
"But that's okay. Everyone has their day. You can't always be at the top. There's always, you've always got to let others come through and that's fine. But if you choose to clinging on and get angry about it, it's not very healthy. I think."
The Mirror has approached Channel 4 for comment.
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