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Kate Silverton puts foot in it on air and tells BBC audience: 'I've size NINE feet'
There were shrieks of amazement. And then an uncomfortable silence. Probably not the reaction Kate Silverton was hoping for when she let it slip on air that she had size nine feet.
There were shrieks of amazement. And then an uncomfortable silence. Probably not the reaction Kate Silverton was hoping for when she let it slip on air that she had size nine feet.
The BBC Breakfast host, 38, made the aside during a discussion with the Nolan sisters. The petite singing trio were discussing one of their 1980s music videos when the talk turned to shoes.
Bernie Nolan, 48, first revealed she had tiny size three-and-half feet, and Coleen, 44, confessed that hers were a bigger size six – the UK average.
Miss Silverton piped in: I’m a nine, consider yourself lucky.’
‘You’re a nine?’ Coleen shrieked, while sister Linda echoed, ‘Are you a nine?’
The sisters then fell silent for a few seconds, before murmuring almost in unison: ‘Wow’.
Breakfast co-host Bill Turnbull did his best to ease his colleague’s embarrassment, explaining: ‘She’s very tall.’
And then Bernie added quickly: ‘I’m very jealous, I’m a dwarf.’
‘Not of my big feet,’ Miss Silverton replied, before changing the subject entirely.
Miss Silverton stands a taller than average 5ft 10in – so it’s not entirely surprising she has larger feet.
In the future, such sizes could become the norm. The average female foot size has been growing gradually for the best part of a century. At the beginning of the 20th Century the average was a two and by the 1940s women were strapping on a three and a half.
By the 1960s the average had risen to a four, and it climbed again to a five and a half in the 1970s – and now to a six, according to surveys carried out by Clark’s shoe manufacturers.
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