GRITTY great-grandma Ada Gibson has two reasons to feel proud of herself this week.

The plucky pensioner will feature on BBC1 television each Friday during July -- on the new series of It's Only TV...But I Like It, featuring Jonathan Ross, Phill Jupitus and Julian Clary.

Ada, 87, of Grange Street, Clayton-le-Moors, has also made a splash in another way -- by swimming 80 lengths, about one mile, in the Mercer Hall swimming baths at Great Harwood as part of her fundraising challenge for the Sharron Davies Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.

Ada would like to know if any other 87-year-old has ever swum such a distance in one go. "If so, I'll get back in my shell," she joked.

Viewers can see Ada on It's Only TV...But I Like It on Fridays at 9.30pm.

She is one of a number of pensioners who describe a TV personality and the celebrity panel has to guess who she is referring to.

It's the third series she has been featured in and she refused to travel to London for the filming, resulting in a camera crew travelling to the Sparth House Hotel at Clayton-le-Moors to film her.

The BBC even rearranged the filming for the new series as their plans clashed with Ada's grandson's 18th birthday celebrations.