Ex-‘Blue Peter’ presenter claims she was “bullied” while working on set
nme.comBlue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding has claimed that she was bullied while working on the children’s television show.Fielding joined the show back in 1987 at the age of 18, making her its youngest-ever presenter.
While appearing as a special guest on the Celebrity Catch-Up: Life After That Thing I Did podcast, she revealed that she was left a “shaking, gibbering wreck” due to the way people treated her on the show.“I felt very lonely because I was the youngest.
I was considered a kid – and a pain in the arse of a kid. I wasn’t given any training. I wasn’t told how to present, I wasn’t given any tips.
I was basically left on my own, to just get on with it. And it wasn’t a pleasant first year,” she said.She added: “I would ring my mum up and then hear my mum’s voice and burst into tears, because I was so homesick.”Fielding also opened up about how she moved from her family in Stockport to London for the job and claimed that she was forced to live with the Blue Peter dog, Bonnie, against her will.She explained: “It got to the point where I’d just had enough.
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