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

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.” Fielding claims that she was asked to leave her parents’ home, and was then flown to Russia for six weeks, having only ever been abroad twice before, and that at one point producers even forced her to live with Bonnie, the Blue Peter dog, against her will. She became so unhappy she walked out. “It got to the point where I’d just …