Carol Vorderman was dropped from BBC Radio Wales last year (Image: Getty) Carol Vorderman has accused the BBC of sexism after being axed by the corporation. The former Countdown presenter, 63, claimed in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine that she was "threatened" by the channel for her controversial tweets about the then-Conservative government. The mathematician also suggested she was "not prepared to stop" venting her "strong beliefs" on her social media pages, which led to her exit.

She told the publication: " BBC management made two decisions about two presenters within 24 hours - one was to sack me for five innocuous tweets. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

setAttribute('src','https://live.primis.tech/live/liveView.

php?s=118222&playerApiId=v118222');document.getElementById('ovp-primis').appendChild(el)}window.

top.addEventListener('primisPlayerInit',e=>{try{if(e.detail&&e.

detail.playerApiId==="v118222"){if(window.document.

getElementsByClassName('jwplayer')[0]){e.detail.float('disable')}}}catch(e){}});window.

addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',()=>{setTimeout(()=>{if(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded===!0){loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.Log('[Load] OVP flagTcfLoaded',new Date())}else{document.addEventListener("tcfLoaded",()=>{loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.

Log('[Load] OVP tcfLoaded',new Date())})}},1500)}) "The other, knowing the serious nature of Huw's arrest, was to keep him on and carry on paying his salary, I mean ...

.