Kate Humble from CountryFile has revealed how she was presented for sex by a TV director at the age of just 22 – and why she decided to never have children.
The presenter, 56, who is also a mainstay for Springwatch and Animal Park, said she had experienced unwanted male progress when she started her career in her early 1920s.
Kate said the comment was made while she worked for a director of a channel 4 -series – but refused to call him.
She told The Telegraph: 'When I was very young, probably 22, I worked for a director in a channel 4 series. I was in the edit -suite with him.
“At the end of the day he turned to me and said,” Should we go and have sex? “It was somewhat Flippant. '
Kate has refused to treat the comment as 'trauma' and instead called him on it and said that if 'that is why you have hired me, it is better to find someone else'.
“I am presented by a guy was not sexism. It was just someone who tried and you say they should take away, “Kate added.
The TV presenter, who has been married to producer Ludo Graham since 1992, was attacked earlier because she insisted that she has no plans to found a family.
Countryfile's Kate Humble (depicted in 2012) has revealed how she was presented for sex by a TV director at the age of only 22 years
Kate, 56, (depicted in 1999), who is also a pillar for Springwatch and Animal Park, said she had experienced unwanted male progress when she started her career in her early 20s
Kate is depicted with her husband Ludo with whom she has been married since 1992
In an interview with Woman's Hour, she spoke about how she had known since the age of 14 that she didn't want to have any children.
Kate said in 2016: 'I knew very early that I didn't want any children, so I thought I would just say it. I don't think it's someone, but I think it's just easier if I just come out and say: “I don't want them, I never wanted them”.
“I know it sounds terrible, but that's how I feel. But it was amazing, the reaction, [there were] So many women via social media and in the newspapers say “thank you for expressing what we feel”, because so many people don't want children. '
Kate said it was a relief to tell people at the age of 40 that this was 'her decision' and called on people not to judge.
Earlier in 2021 in 2021, Kate explained that the Pandemie only strengthened its decision not to have a child.
She said: 'This sounds very apocalyptic, but we live in a world that is extremely unpredictable and if the past year has taught us something, it has taught us.
'And you really want to think:' Do I want to bring a child to this world? “That is a completely valid reason. The world population goes through the roof. '
Kate Humble visits the Dogs Trust near Bridgend, Wales, in December 2009
Kate (depicted in 2012) said it was a relief to tell people at the age of 40 that this was 'her decision' and called on people not to judge.
The TV presenter has the recoil of the return with which she is confronted in the past, said that women should never be viewed negatively if they decide that they do not want to start a family.
She added: “If people want to have children, it is completely good, but nobody should feel that they are somehow insufficient or selfish – that is something that I am called a lot – or just weird if they don't want children.”
'For me it is just as wise to decide not to have them if it is to have them. Nobody has the right to tell a woman that she should have children. '
Kate has been living on a 117 -hectare farm in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire since 2007.
