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Anne
Robinson - (contributed by Nigel) - I recall British
TV presenter Anne Robinson recalling her schooldays with regular
visits to her headmistress for the cane. She was educated at a
convent boarding school.
Anthea Turner - (contributed by Site
Visitor) - In The Times Education Supplement, December 2000, the
British TV presenter recalling one of her former schoolteachers
Mrs Moss said: "The atmosphere in her class was happy, but
we were disciplined. She was the sort of teacher who commanded
respect. You knew how far you could go and if you pushed her too
far you`d get a slap across the legs." "As a child I
never really got into serious trouble, I was too scared of my mum
finding out."
Britney
Spears - (contributed
by Peter) - During a TV interview the American singer commented:
"when I was young I always talked a lot, I
even got spanked at school for talking too much."
Billie Piper - (contributed by Derek) -
I heard on an interview once that although her mother supported
her singing, one time when she was about 8, Billie was singing
using a hairbrush as a microphone after being told to do her
homework, her mother caught her and took the hairbrush, took
Billie over her knee and gave her a spanking with it.
Britt
Ekland - (contributed by Carolina Jim) - From her
book, True Britt, the Swedish actress stated: "Several times
i collected a spanking from my father because of my rebellious
nature. Once for playing among the logs in the wood cellars from
which we were barred because of the dirt and the danger." (Confirmed)
Brooke Satchwell - (contributed by Dave
A) - The Australian actress, well known as Anne
from neighbours, said on a TV interview that she was brought up
in a strict family and received a few spankings when growing up.
Carol
Vorderman - (contributed by Duncan) - In
the local paper, The Bradford Telegraph & Argus, there is a
page called "School Matters" which has a column
entitled "11 Plus", where a personality answers eleven
questions about their schooldays. It's the same eleven questions
every week, and the final one is "Were you ever punished at
school?" And the British TV presenter recalls once getting
the cane. (Enter
for Article Text) also contributed by Duncan. (Confirmed)
Cleo
Rocos - (contributed by Duncan) - Years
ago, I remember reading an article in the Daily Mail, about Cleo
Rocos, who used to play Miss Whiplash on the Kenny Everett
Television Show. She mentioned that she had attended a convent
school where she recalled: "I was always being caned across
the backside for some misdemeanour or other."
Crystal Bernard - (contributed
by Verbal Kint) - The actress grew up in Garland Texas USA, one
of four daughters of an evangelical southern baptist minister.
Taken from a newspaper tv guide she said: "I think of
growing up as I did with my dad and mom, the discipline that they
gave me, I`m really old fashioned. Everybody`s going to hate me
but I believe in spankings because I see people like my friends
who were raised a little more liberally and they have more
problems."
Charlize
Theron - (contributed by Lonny) - In Vogue Magazine
(October 2000), there was a profile of actress Charlize Theron,
wherein she mentioned receiving 'hard' spankings from her mother.
Ms. Theron (and Mother) also mused that the U.S.A. would be a
better place if disciplinary spankings were more common.
Cindy Crawford - (contributed by John) -
In an article it mentioned that when Cindy had
her apartment redone all the sound proofing was removed. It
stated that the intimate sounds of daily life in the Crawford
apartment could be heard very clear downstairs. Visitors marveled
at the clarity with which activites could be heard. A cleaning
lady for the people downstairs said she had heard quite clearly a
lady upstairs getting a spanking on numerous occasions.
Cybill Shepherd
- (contibuted by Jan) - In the Amarican actress` biography,
CYBILL DISOBEDIENCE, Cybill tells of a scuffle she had with her
older sister in their common bed, and then the next morning
"When my father saw my bruised shins and red-rimmed eyes, he
made Terry bend over, hands to ankles, and walloped her with his
belt. She incurred a similar punishment every time she chased me
around the house and attacked me, which was often because I
regularly provoked her (awfully dumb, since she was older, bigger,
stronger, and faster). I hid over a floor furnace outside the den
every time she was punished, talking to my plastic horses while
my sister yelped, determined to avoid such punishment myself. I,
Miss Perfect, rarely got whipped. My most egregious sins were
repeatedly scribbling in crayon on the living room wall and
taunting my brother to bite me, then telling on him when he did.
The spankings came to an end when I stopped crying." (Confirmed)
Debby
Boon - (contributed by Michael) - In her biography
the singer often mentions spankings. She said that her father
spanked her bare behind with either his hand, belt or slipper.
Dyan
Cannon - (contributed by Cindi) - The actress
admitted that she got spankings until she cried as punishments
over Carey Grant`s knee during their marriage in the 60s. (Confirmed) During
her divorce proceedings, Cannon explained that Carey Grant had
administered spankings to her. But I`m yet to read or hear any
further details.
Erin
Moran - (contributed by Henry) - The actress from TV`s,
Happy Days, mentioned on the howard stern show that she was once
given the strap while laying across her bed for playing trick or
treat.
Farah
Fawcett - (contributed by Jan) - I read somewhere
that when the actress misbehaved as a youngster she would have to
pull down her jeans and lay across the bed for her father to
spank her with a belt.
Geri
Halliwell - (contributed by OTK999) - on reading
Geri Halliwell's autobiography "If Only" I encountered
the following passages about Geri`s childhood which may be of
interest. Page 8 - "I loved my father on his good days, but
sometimes this was overshadowed by an unpredictable temper. He
would pull his belt from his trousers and snap it through the air
like a whip. As I lay hiding under the bed, I heard him shouting,
"Ready, ready red legs," before he pulled me out and
whipped me across the back of my thighs.
Heather Locklear - (contributed by Jan)
- In a biography it mentions that the actress was spanked just
once when she was six years old.
Hannah
Storm - (contributed by Stephanie) - I
have heard (although I cannot confirm) that NBC sports announcer
Hannah Storm went to a catholic high school and felt the paddle
more than once.
Hillary Clinton - (contributed
by ?) - In the Book, Bill and Hillary, The
Marriage, discusses on P.93 that Hillary could expect the
reasonably frequent application of corporal punishment in the
form of spanking from her Dad, Hugh Rodham. (Confirmed)