Katherine Ryan recounts being followed by ‘lone-wolf’ male fans in early career

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Katherine Ryan has reflected on feeling unsafe in her early career when she noticed that “very strange lone-wolf men” audience members would follow her after shows. Speaking on her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, Ryan told listeners she was “p***ed off” because her daughter Violet and her cousin Lily had been sexually harassed “everywhere they went” in London. “Anyone looking at these girls, no one is mistaking them for being adult women.” Ryan recently criticised the lack of female evening chat show hosts in the UK, saying that men predominantly front late night talk shows while women are allocated daytime slots. I think for whatever reason, women are sometimes relegated to daytime and then the boys do all the late-night chat shows.” Both Sarah Millican and Charlotte Church have hosted late night chat shows in the past, but contrastingly, male UK chat show hosts including Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, Michael Parkinson, Alan Carr and Paul O’Grady all enjoyed decades long runs of their respective late night programmes throughout the 2000s.