Sandi Toksvig: women are being ‘edited out and marginalised’ of panel shows

QI host says women perform cleverly but are then seen ‘just laughing at the boys’

Sandi Toksvig
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Sandi Toksvig, host of BBC’s QI has said that women are edited out of television panel shows, and regularly face poor treatment by being “marginalised”.

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