'IT'S A PAIN TO BE JUDGED ON YOUR LOOKS...'

ELAINE Crowley says hurtful comments about her appearance from Ireland AM viewers get to her, but has learned how to let them go over her head.

- BY MICHELLE TOWNSEND

The TV favourite says female presenters on the show get more criticism than the males and that it's frustrating that women are judged on what they look like.

Elaine hosts the show with Martin King and Eric Roberts each Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

She said: "We get way more than you fellas, for God's sake. It’s par for the course, we get a lot of b****y comments about our appearance.

"I remember former German Chancellor Angela Merkel had the same hair style and wore the same type of suit every single day during her political career because we are judged on what we look like.

"It's frustrating and annoying, but you just have to let it go over your head."