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Amanda Platell - On the Littlejohn programme, Sky News, June 21 2004, on the subject of smacking, stand in presenter, British based Australian journalist Amanda Platell, said to the guest anti smacking campaigner "I was smacked very, very occasionally - I`ve got to be careful because my parents are watching this (laughs) - very, very occasionally, but why should any parent be denied that right? A little sensible smacking keeps us in line."

Anita Roddick - The British celebrity businesswoman was slippered at school. In a weekly article in The Scotsman newspaper called My Schooldays the following question and answer was given when Anita featured on May 29 2002.

Did you get into trouble?

I'd pocket my money, have a free school meal and then buy books. Got caught, got the slipper, so I pleaded poverty and my headmistress summoned my mother to her office to give me more money. Miss Parker sat on a high stool and always had her parrot in the room.

Anne Summers - The Australian journalist was caned by her father when she misbehaved growing up. In her autobiography, Ducks on the Pond, page 51, she explains how her mother would report all of her and her brother`s misdemeanours for the week to her father on a saturday afternoon, and he would take them individually around the side of the house, bend them over, and cane their bottoms.

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Anne Graham Lotz - In a Magazine interview the itinerant minister and daughter of the famous American preacher, Billy graham, commented: "When I was a child there was lots of discipline and spanking."

Ann Carroll - The Irish author received corporal punishment for misbehaviour at school.

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I have lots of memories of primary school, even though it's so long ago. One is where my friend and I were very cheeky and shouted rude things after one of the teachers (this incident comes into 'Rosie's Quest'). We were both put into the Dunces' Row and for a time we even thought we might be expelled. We also got whacked on the hands with a ruler. Given the times I suppose we were lucky we weren't hanged.

Alice Thomas Ellis - In a newspaper article on the subject of corporal punishment in schools the Welsh Novelist said: "I was caned once when I was seven, and I still resent it bitterly, probably because I wasn`t guilty."

Anouska Golebiewski - The Big Brother UK 2003 contestant was often slippered by her mother when growing up. In an article in The Sun, 29th May, 2003, her mother Ravinia, unhappy at her daughter`s behaviour in the house said: "Anouska has had my slipper on her backside so many times." "I`d do more than smack her on the bottom with a slipper - I would give her a damn good hiding."

Amy Adams - In a Q&A interview on the Calgury Sun website (www.calgarysun.com), the former American Idol contestant was asked the following question among others.

Most Embarrassing Moment?
Being spanked in the Bologna Aisle when I was 11 and my friend from school coming around the corner while my mom was still yelling. So horrible!

Betty Boothroyd - In a newspaper article, and in the book Betty Boothroyd, The Autobiography, the former speaker of the UK Parliament explains a time when, at the age of 15/16, she was given the belt by her concerned father after arriving home late from a dance. When she arrived home and attempted to explain, Betty recalls: "Dad refused to listen when I turned up. He laid into me with the belt on which he used to hone his razor (Razor Strop). I still had my coat on and was merely shaken. I understood dad`s anger. He had been through hours of worry and could not control himself."

Bobbi Fielder - In 1979 Bobbi Fielder, an American Congress-woman, led a campaign to have corporal punishment restored in L.A. schools. Before casting her vote she said she would receive a paddling so that she could experience exactly what she was campaigning for. She was as good as her word and bent over for 3 licks. (Enter for picture)

Critenden - The newspaper reporter, then working for The Sun, was given an over-the-knee spanking by a man in costume for making four spelling mistakes at an Encyclopedia Britannica booth. (Enter for picture)

Charissa Saverio - The Model/DJ, known as DJ Rap, was caned at her all girls convent boarding school in Malta for spitting at a nun who passed a comment she found insulting. Charissa claims she still has the scar on her hand to prove it.

Christine Scinta - The lead singer of American group, The Scintas, was spanked growing up. In an interview on the lasvegassun.com website, their mother, Mary Scinta, was asked the following question among others.

Sun: How did you punish them when they misbehaved?

Mary Scinta: They were disciplined. We spanked them when they needed to be spanked, and loved them when they needed to be loved.

Devinn Lane - The American adult movie actress was spanked by her strict evangelical church minister father when she misbehaved growing up. In an article on the Orange County Weekly Website, 2003, it said among her father`s rules were, No makeup. Church three times per week. Dresses below the knee. No movies. Basically nothing secular. Lane, Aries that she is, rebelled, smoked in the girls’ room, skipped school. Her father didn’t spare the rod. Devinn added: "The spankings were quite harsh."

Dianne Thompson - In an article in The Mirror, August 28 2004, The chief executive of Camelot, organisers of the UK National Lottery, said was caned at school. On the first day of a new term all the pupils were issued with new pencils. Dianne says that when she returned to class after lunch break her pencils had been broken, and she was sent to the head`s study and given the cane.

Eileen Atkins - In a magazine article, the British stage actress commented of childhood punishments: "I was thrashed with the buckle end of a belt and it never did me any harm."

Elaine Dundy - The American writer was frequently caned on her bare backside during her marriage to British theatre critic Ken Tynan. Dundy reluctantly complied with the thrashings but certainly didn`t enjoy them and they made her quite angry. After her first whacking she broke in two his "treasured headmaster`s cane," but was thrashed numerous times after that. Dundy commented: "To cane a woman on her bare buttocks, to hurt and humiliate her, was what gave him his greatest sexual satisfaction."

Elizabeth Dole - In an article on the CNN website in 1992 about the wife of former American Presidential candidate Bob Dole, her mother and her brother recall a few of her early punishments. She received spankings on two occasions from her mother for misbehaving at sunday school, and was chastised with a switch by her father for drawing on her bedroom wall.

Fran Keeth - In her book, From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top, Eve Tahmincioglu interviewed 55 CEOs about their backgrounds, and asked them if they were spanked growing up. Shell Chemicals Executive Vice President Fran Keeth said she and her siblings were spanked with switches from the family`s peach tree, and added that her father spanked her and her siblings "in a loving way."

Gina Campbell - In a newspaper article, her book, and on a TV chat show, the daughter of the British land & water speed record holder, Donald Campbell, said that when she misbehaved as a child her father would spank her bare bottom, which "taught me my lesson."

Haven Kimmel - In an interview for the online magazine, Slant, the American writer recalling her schooldays mentioned: "Later that year I would be spanked by every fifth grade teacher, even those I barely knew, for what amounted to chronic badness." Haven was born, raised and educated in Mooreland Indiana, USA. The paddle is still used in schools in the State of Indiana.


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