Yvette Fielding has claimed a BBC boss bullied her during her ‘Blue Peter’ days.
Yvette Fielding has claimed she was bullied by a BBC executive while working on Blue Peter
The ‘Most Haunted’ presenter has alleged she had a boss who was "just incredibly cruel" when she worked on the hit children’s programme in the 1980s, and claims they would "berate" her in front of others.
The 55-year-old broadcaster - who joined the show in 1987 aged 18 - told the Daily Star newspaper: "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 just incredibly cruel.
"I thought that I’d be doing OK and then I was told that I was useless.
"Absolutely useless, again and again and again. It was like every time I did what I thought was right, she’d come back and say something awful or she’d just berate me in front of other people."
Yvette claims it led to her being a "shaking, gibbering wreck" while hosting live broadcasts.
She said: "You’ve got to be confident in front of eight million people twice a week and my confidence was just at an all-time low. I was a shaking, gibbering wreck."
Yvette - who has made a name for herself as a TV ghost hunter alongside her second husband Karl Beattie, 60 - also told how she came across the ghost of an RAF worker on the set of ITV1 soap ‘Coronation Street’ back in 2005.
She said: "There was a lot of tapping and knocking - the tapping phenomenon that we get. We knew that there was definite activity and that spirits were there. There was a woman there, and she has been seen in an RAF uniform. I think it was her that was coming through.
"She has been seen there a lot this RAF woman.
"I remember Elsie Tanner; her picture was in a hallway or something, and weirdly enough it started to rattle. There was some tapping coming through, and it was just bizarre.”
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