Yvette Fielding reveals 'horrific' first year on Blue Peter which led her to resign
ok.co.ukBlue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding claims her first year on the kids' TV classic Blue Peter was so "horrific" due to the "relentless bullying she suffered, that she actually resigned from the show.The Most Haunted star joined the programme in 1987 as the youngest ever presenter when she was just 18 and eventually fronted the show for five years.
But she claims that by the end of her first year she was left "a shaking, gibbering wreck," due to being "berated" by her boss Biddy Baxter.
Famed BBC producer Biddy Baxter MBE is a British television producer, who edited the long-running BBC TV children's magazine show for 26 years.
But Yvette alleges that the now-90-year-old was "cruel" and would "berate" her. Opening up about her experience on the Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did podcast, she said: "To me, the most important thing in a job was to please your boss and do the best that you can do. "The problem was that I was trying to please my boss so much, but my boss seemed to be - I don't know why - just incredibly cruel. "I thought that I'd be doing okay, and then I was told that I was useless.
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