Susanna Reid: it's frustrating being labelled a flirt

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TV presenter Susanna Reid has said that she is frustrated at being labelled a flirt.

The Good Morning Britain star has been accused of flirting with David Beckham, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, former Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens and prime minister David Cameron during interviews.

But she told Good Housekeeping magazine: “Wearing a dress and chewing a pen is interpreted as something else.

“It’s frustrating – I’m a professional interviewer whose job it is to get the absolute best out of people.

“To then have it described in a different way, feels a bit like, come on, really?”

“But,” she added, “It enables you to lay down another layer of thick skin.”

Reid said that she did not choose what to wear on the show and said of headlines surrounding her encounter with the prime minister on the programme: “It did feel like the wrong focus of the interview.

“It’s a little bit reductionist to boil it down to wearing a dress, aka flashing the pins. I don’t choose a particular dress.

“You have to accept a certain level of scrutiny but does it frustrate me sometimes, of course it does.”

Good Morning Britain recently celebrated its one-year anniversary and despite still being beaten by the BBC’s Breakfast show, Reid said the morning programme was “doing well”.

She added: “We’ve been through an extraordinary process of being under intense scrutiny but we’ve built an absolutely lovely, loyal and communicative audience, which is steadily growing.”