A Scottish television producer, fired after calling her boss in e-mails "Blobby," appealed to an employment tribunal, complaining her firing was unfair.

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Agnes Wilkie, 49, former head of features at Scottish Television, said she regretted sending the e-mails, but claimed they were typical of the "world of creative television production," the Daily Telegraph said.

She said she had tried to apologize to Bobby Hain, managing director of broadcasting services, but the company insisted on carrying out an investigation that revealed she had also referred to him as "Blob" and "Blobbiness."

"I do not have a malicious bone in my body," Wilkie told the tribunal, adding that her messages were taken out of context.

David Archer, acting chief executive of STV's television division, told the tribunal in Glasgow Hain discovered the e-mails when he was looking at another employee's e-mails while she was on sick leave. In the first message Wilkie told Hain's assistant that she was "a poor wee thing having to work for that big fat thing."

Archer said Hain was "shocked and upset" by the content.