News is the nude from Sian Williams
BBC Breakfast host Sian Williams claims it costs her £4,500 a year to look good for her job – yet she would happily “read the news naked”.
Which is why she wants the bill to be subject to tax relief.
Sian Williams, 45, is locked in a five-year battle with HM Revenue and Customs, which has ruled that she does not qualify for a £1,800 tax rebate for her grooming bill because “it is impossible to divide the business and private benefit of such expenditure”.
Miss Williams’ representative told a tax tribunal that it was an “implied term” of her contract that “she must not wear the same clothes more than twice or three times a month”.
Mother-of-four Miss Williams has the option to appeal but in the meantime has assured viewers that there is “no danger of her actually presenting naked”.
