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Julie
Walters - On the Clive Anderson chat show the
British actress admitted being beaten by nuns in her schooldays.
Julie was telling Anderson how the nuns at her school reacted to
her northern accent and at the same time she was holding out her
hand and acting out taking some whacks on it. Anderson asked her:
"So you were beaten by nuns?" Julie replied: "Yes."
Julie later attended Holly Lodge grammar school and according to
one of my site contributors she was caned on the backside. Julie
was eventually expelled from Holly Lodge.
Judy Finnigan - During an interview on
the British TV presenter`s daily chat show with husband Richard
Madeley, Guest, singer Melony Brown, mentioned "getting a
crack" from her mother when she misbehaved. Madeley replied
by saying he used to "get a crack" as well, and looked
at Finnigan and said: "and you were hit with a belt wasn`t
you," looking slightly uncomfortable she said: "it has
been known yes."
Joanna
Lumley - In her memoirs, Stare Back And Smile, the
British actress recalling her childhood, mentioned that she and a
friend once cut off their fringes with a pair of scissors, and
she got her bottom smacked for it but her friend didn`t.
Joan
Crawford - In a book called, Marilyn`s
Men, The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe, there was a brief
mention that during the childhood of Lucille LeSueur (Joan
Crawford, American actress) she had to scrub the floor, wash the
dishes and was beaten with a broomstick by the school`s
headmistress.
Joan Bakewell - In a
magazine article about the British TV presenter it was mentioned
that when she misbehaved while growing up her mother spanked her
with a hairbrush or a slipper. She also wrote in a newspaper
article about a time she was taken across her mother`s knee and
received a bare bottom spanking with a slipper. (Enter for
Article)
Jackie-Kennedy-Onassis
- In the book, Jaqueline Bouvier An Intamate Memoir, it was
stated that the former American First Lady was often spanked and
at times severely by her mother Janet.
Kaye Adams - On a
daytime chat show, the Scottish TV presenter recalled being
spanked by her parents while growing up. She commented: "There
are great parents out there who have smacked, and my mum and dad.
I did get smacked on the very odd occasion and I wouldn`t say `it
never did me any harm`, but I always knew why it was happening
and therefore it didn`t do me any harm because it was done fairly.
(shifting in her seat) "And it was very sore as well."
(joking) "I`ve grown up to quite like that."
Kiri te
Kanawa - In the classical musician`s biography it
was mentioned that while growing up her mother, Nell, would
administer physical punishments for serious misbehaviour with a
large wooden spoon or a belt.
Lorraine Kelly
- During A Daily "Back to School" series on GMTV, where
all the presenters visited their old schools and recalled
schooldays memories, John Stapleton told fellow presenter
Lorraine Kelly how he was frequently caned at his grammar school.
Scottish presenter Kelly said: "Was it a cane you got hit
with? it was a belt we got, the leather belt. I used to get the
belt for talking, the strap we called it, it was a leather belt
with thonges on it, it was horrible. You used to try to draw away
(hands) but that made it worse, it would go right up your wrist,
it was so sore, really painful."
Latoya Jackson - In
her biography the American singer mentions being spanked while
growing up, she also mentions the use off a switch.
Lindsey Coulson -
During a domestic argument with her husband, Phil, the British
actress threw an orange at him and tried to wreck his mountain
bike. Phil eventually decided things had gone too far and put
lindsey over his knee and spanked her backside.
Mary
McCarthy - In a book called, When They Were Kids,
there was a mention that the American writer was spanked with a
hairbrush or razor strop by her uncle while growing up at home.
Michelle Pfeiffer -
In a magazine article about the American actress she mentioned
that sometimes she would skip school and go down to the beach and
when her father found out he would spank her for it.
Martina Navratilova
- The Czech/American former world number one tennis player
admitted in her biography that while growing up, when she was
very bad, her father would put her over his knee and spank her,
and sometimes he used a ruler. She recalls her two biggest
spankings, one for going to her friend`s house after school
without telling her parents and arriving home late when it was
dark, for which she mentions being spanked very hard. And another
for calling one of her neighbours a cow. She also mentions that
her mother sometimes smacked her but commented: "She hurt
her hand more than my butt."
Marsha
Hunt - The American actress/singer/novelist, recalls
in her biography being punished at school with a ruler. She
mentions having to hold out her hands and being whacked on her
palms by a nun for punching a boy who tried to kiss her in the
playground. And one day when she walked into a class and down the
aisle to her seat, the priest warned her that she was `switching,`
this meaning that he thought she was rolling her behind from side
to side. The priest then told her to walk down the aisle again,
and after she did-so he said that she was still doing it. She was
then told to come to the front and asked to hold out her hands
and was whacked on the palms with a ruler in front of the entire
class.
Oprah Winfrey - The
American chat show host has mentioned in a book, a newspaper
article, and on her show that she was often spanked on her behind
with a switch by her grandmother while growing up.
Petula
Clark - In the British singer/actress` biography, it
mentions an incident as a child when she was "soundly
spanked" by her mother after being caught harpooning pickled
onions from a jar with a knitting needle she had stolen.