Now heatworld is aware that Vanessa Feltz may not be our usual celeb du jour, but you might want to give us the benefit of the doubt and read on....
A teenager who forked out £120 to work for Vanessa Feltz has said, she ‘basically paid to be abused by Vanessa Feltz for a week.’
Beverley Nesbit who is 19, bid £120 at an auction to work on Vanessa’s BBC London radio show, in the belief the week would be a great opportunity to make contacts in the media world.
But Beverly’s week did not exactly live up to her expectations. Speaking to The Daily Mail, the student told how Celebrity Big Brother star Vanessa made her cry and even tried to bully her into writing a 2,000-word essay. Blimey. And we thought work experience was all about tea and the photocopier.
The second-year film student said:
‘Vanessa was really brash, not like the bubbly person you see on television, but in a rude and arrogant way. She barely acknowledged me, and when she did she said everything I had done was rubbish.’
Vanessa reportedly ordered Beverly to cold call potential guests and told her to ‘grow up’ when she said she was nervous.
But the best part of Beverly's tales have to be when Vanessa was so shocked that the teenager had not heard of the poet WB Yeats, that she demanded a 2,000 word essay explaining exactly who the poet was.
At this point please can no one mention to ‘Ness that we don’t have the foggiest on this Yeats dude, we are sure he is wicked, but just don’t have time for essays and the like.
When Beverly didn’t do the essay, because she has no access to a computer, Vanessa allegedly told her she “should have gone to a library”.
Since Beverly made her claims, the BBC has told staff that work experience should be given to the most talented students and not sold at auction.
Vanessa is yet to comment.
Cor, and we thought Lord Sugar was a tough nut boss.