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Ruby Wax
- On the American TV presenter`s show called, Ruby, she mentioned
during a discussion that she was spanked on her backside with the
bristled side of a hairbrush growing up. Also in her book, Ruby
Wax, How Do You Want Me? she mentions how her father would punish
her with a hairbrush or a belt when she misbehaved, but did
suggest that from her point of view those and other punishments
occasionally went beyond reasonable chastisement.
Reba McEntire
- On the Roseanne chat show, the American country singer talked
of her growing up years in southern USA, and she spoke about her
strict father, and that if you misbehaved you would "Get
your butt busted or reprimanded." Roseanne replied "You
were beaten with a bullwhip or something." Reba replied
"We had a buggy whip."
Rhona
Cameron - In her biography, Nineteen-Seventy-Nine -
A Big Year in a Small Town, the Scottish comedienne mentions
(page 19) being summoned to a local gang leader as a teenager for
"breaking a rule" and being whipped with a tree branch
stripped with a penknife. She also explains (page 50) that her
father was a believer in corporal punishment, and when she
misbehaved he would take her pants down, put her across his knee,
and spank her bare bottom hard with his hand, which she said left
pink welts and hand-prints on her "arse".
Shania Twain
- In the December 2002 issue of Redbook Magazine, the Canadian
singer talks about the discipline applied in her household when
she was growing up, and said it was not unusual to "get a
slap" or "get the belt". Shania expressed a
balanced view on the issue of physical punishment, and suggested
it`s the context of it that`s important. 
Sophie
Ellis-Bexter - In an article on the subject of
smacking - Daily Mirror, June 23 2004, pages 16/17 - the British
singer`s mother, Janet Ellis, said: "I have smacked Sophie
and my other two on rare occasions. If I did smack them, it would
be for the last in a long line of trivial things they`d done
wrong."
Shirley
Temple - The famous American child star actress
admitted in her biography that as a child she had to bend over
and bare her behind and her mother spanked her with a wooden
yardstick. She also commented: "That was the first spanking
she gave me but certainly not the last." Shirley also
recalls in the biography her spanking in the film, Wee Willie
Winkie. On the film set when the directors were wondering what to
do next, Shirley`s watching mother suggested: "Why don`t you
get her spanked? Even I`ve spanked Shirley."
Sarah Miles
- In her book called, Right Royal Bastard, the British actress
explains that she received regular spankings from her mother with
an antique silver hairbrush. She also mentions how it burned long
after the spanking had finished and that her mother once spanked
her so hard that she bent the handle of the hairbrush. After that
she said that her mother replaced that brush with a sturdier
wooden one.
Samantha
Morton - In an article in The Sun, 29th June 2002,
the British actress mentioned being spanked by her father when
growing up, she said: "It hurt at first when I got the belt
or the slipper, but then I learnt to block it out, he was hitting
me but not hurting me. In an article in the Daily Mail, February
19th 2000, it stated that she grew up in various foster homes
from the age of 11 and she said: "There was a German family
that used to hit us with a wooden spoon if we didn`t say grace in
German correctly. I didn`t care about the spoon because my dad
used to give me the belt."
Susannah
York - The British actress received corporal
punishment for misbehaviour at Marr College, Troon, Scotland in
the 1950s. In the Times Educational Supplement (TES - May 2005)
and an article in the Daily Mail (June 1 2005) she fondly recalls
her Latin Master, Mr. Gow, who chastised her on three occasions
with the strap. Susannah resents nothing about her punishments
and says she deserved them.
Serena Williams -
The American tennis star (World number 1, 2003) was spanked by
father/coach Richard when she misbehaved growing up. In an
article on the Sports
Illustrated Website, May 31, 1999, it mentioned a time when he
"Whipped her ass" after she confessed to doing
something he was none too impressed with.
Sarah Ferguson - In an
interview with Hello Magazine, April, 2007, The Duchess of York
recalled being smacked at home for misbehaviour growing up. She
said: "I was hit hard for being rude and my mother said my
temper was a sign of the devil so she gave me a wallop. I used to
be sent upstairs for being naughty."
Samantha
Janus - In an interview in The Daily Record,
Scotland, Sept 9, 1996, the English actress, recalling her
schooldays in Edinburgh, Scotland, explained how she was once a
tomboy troublemaker and was often caned for misbehaviour. She
said: "I was the class troublemaker. I was always getting six
of the best with the cane."Above: Samantha Janus was a self confessed tomboy and troublemaker at school. Right: Her teachers got to the bottom of it with frequent canings.
Tavia
Yeung
- On the website HK Celebrity Interviews (hkcelebinterviews.blogspot.com) an
article about the Chinese actress mentions her being caned by her
mother for misbehaviour growing up.
Tracy Smith
- The CBS News correspondent was spanked with a paddle in 1st
grade at school. At the end of a news item on the issue of
corporal punishment at school, which Tracy presented, she was
asked by her co-presenter if they paddled at her school? She
replied: "They paddled at my school, and not in private, in
front of the class." She added: "I got whacked in 1st
grade, and at the end I stood up and said it didn`t hurt!"
Her teacher replied: "It may not have hurt your buttocks
girl but it certainly hurt your pride." "I was a good
girl for the next ten years," Tracy added.
Tatum
O`Neal - In her book, A Paper Life, Harper Collins,
2004, the American actress recalls the "Beatings" she
received when she misbehaved growing up, from her mother, who
used the belt, and her mother`s boyfriend, who administered a
switch. She also tells of a time when she was spanked with a
"Perforated" wooden paddle (a paddle with holes) at
boarding school in Tuscon, Arizona in the 1970s for stealing some
earrings.
Tammy Wynette
- The American country singer admitted in her biography, Stand By
Your Man, that when she was growing up she got spanked with a
belt on her behind at home. In the book she says that her mother
done most of the disciplining and that her father whipped her
only three times, but mentions that they were three whippings she
would never forget. She also describes the time when at Seventeen
her boyfriend returned her home from a date half an hour late.
Her mother told her to never see him again because he doesn`t
even have enough respect for you to return you home on time.
There was then an argument with Tammy saying that if you say I
can`t see him I will marry him. Her mother replied that`s the
stupidist thing I have ever heard and at that moment she picked
up a belt and hit tammy with the buckle end. Tammy then recalls
that her mother then gave her the whipping of her life which she
said at Seventeen hurt her pride as much as it did her backside.
Tanya Tucker
- In her biography, Nickel Dreams, the American country singer
mentions being spanked by her parents. She mentions how she would
sometimes refuse to go to bed when told to and eventually her
father would end up having to spank her. She also recalls a time
when she covered herself with blood from the dog`s meat and ran
in and told her parents that the dog had bitten her, her father
panicked and suggested shooting the dog until he found out she
was playing a prank, Tanya explained in the book that "Mother
and dad thought it was about as funny as a heart attack, and they
whipped my butt for it."
Tammin
Sursok - In an article in the Australian NW
Magazine, September 2nd 2002, the Australian actress said that
whenever she misbehaved growing up her father, Daryl Sursok,
would smack her bum and she wouldn`t do it again.
Tonya
Harding - In a monthly sport magazine, The American
former ice-skater told of childhood spankings she received from
her mother - "She would hit me with anything that was in the
house. A hairbrush, ruler, wooden spoon, belt, you name it."
Tracy
Shaw - During a TV chat show, on the subject of
smacking, the British actress recalled getting the slipper during
her days at a catholic school. 
Tina Turner
- In a newspaper article in May 1999, The American singer`s
former husband and manager Ike Turner recalled a time when he
spanked her with a coathanger for attempting to run away. It has
also been mentioned in the past that Ike spanked Tina with a shoe
and other implements.
Tina Turner
- In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the American singer said
she was often spanked by her strict grandmother who she was sent
to live with when her parents left town to work.Right: Tina Turner - spanked regularly by grandmother growing up
Whitney
Houston - The American singer/actress commented in
her biography that her father was basically a softy but did spank
her once for as she put it "Running off at the mouth."
Wallis Simpson - In
a book called, The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson, it was
mentioned that the former Duchess of Windsor was spanked by her
mother with a large silver hairbrush while growing up. And in
another book called, The Secret Lives of Wallis Simpson, it was
mentioned that she was also spanked with a hairbrush at her
private school, Arundell, because of her rebelious nature.