KEIGHLEY snooker player Rebecca Kenna will appear on national television after being interviewed about sexual inequality in the game.

She was filmed in Keighley yesterday for an episode of BBC’s The One Show, which will be screened at 7pm on Monday, March 25.

Mrs Kenna, 30 (pictured), said some Keighley clubs do not allow in women, meaning she missed out on being able to compete in games while playing in the Cross Hills & District Snooker League.

She said she was unable to get the league to make these clubs stage away fixtures to enable her to play, so she quit the league in late 2018.

She is now ranked number three in the World Women’s Snooker Tour.

Speaking after the filming she said: “I hope it encourages more girls to pick up a cue. Snooker is very male dominated and if girls only see men playing it on TV they’ll think it’s just a male sport, even though it isn’t.”

Responding today, (March 20) David Greene, chairman of Cross Hills & District Snooker League, said: "Our league rules are voted on every year by the delegates of the league which is one delegate per club.

"There is nothing in our league rules that stop women from playing in the league and there never has been.

"Unfortunately individual club rules which aren't determined by the snooker league can't be changed no matter how hard we have tried over the years.

"Every single season I personally wrote to the two clubs to ask the club committees to allow Rebecca to play in their club when Rebecca's team were due to play there and unfortunately every single time this was refused.

"I even asked the clubs just to let Rebecca in to play her frame and then leave but again this was refused.

"The Snooker League Committee, along with Rebecca, have tried over the years to find a way to resolve this and have suggested various ideas from reversing fixtures to even not allowing the clubs to put teams in that don't allow women in.

"Unfortunately, reversing fixtures and our other ideas have always been voted against by the league members.

"The two clubs that don't allow women in contribute four teams to the league, and without them the league would most likely fold as we are only a very small league.

"I would like to say that as the chairman of the league, the league officials and players were fully behind Rebecca playing in our league and we are extremely proud of her achievements as a professional. It is really unfortunate that some clubs won't change their rules to allow woman to play.

"I certainly won't have the league blamed for the rules of individual clubs because the league wanted and encouraged Rebecca and indeed any other women to participate and that will always be the case as long as I am the chairman."