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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexi Duggins

‘I was a shaking, gibbering wreck’: ex-Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding claims she was ‘bullied’ on the show

Former Blue Peter and Most Haunted television presenter Yvette Fielding at home in Sandbach, Cheshire.
The former Blue Peter and Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding at home in Sandbach, Cheshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

TV presenter Yvette Fielding, who made her name as the youngest ever host of Blue Peter, has claimed she was bullied while working on the kids’ TV show. The host, who was 18 when she first appeared on the BBC series, says the treatment she received was so bad that if a young presenter was treated similarly today there “would be quite a few implications”.

“I felt very lonely because I was the youngest. I was considered a kid – and a pain in the arse of a kid,” Fielding told the podcast Celebrity Catch-Up: Life After That Thing I Did. “So I didn’t enjoy the first year. I found it very traumatic.”

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