Cheryl Cole talks about being bullied when she was at school in this week’s TOTP magazine.
Cheryl talks about how it can be one of the worst things anyone can go through,
“It’s degrading when you’re bullied. When someone makes you feel small or humiliated, it’s probably the worst thing you can go through.”
But advises not to pretend it is not happening, but to tell someone,
“At the time, I felt like I didn’t want to be the weak one who admitted being bullied. But you will always feel much better if you get it out there and it’s dealt with.”
Cheryl continues, “Bullies make themselves feel good by making someone else feel bad. It shouldn’t happen, full stop.”
For more help and advice on dealing with bullying, go and buy this week's TOTP magazine.
Pupils at Gosford Hill School in Kidlington, Oxfordshire have been
given £2,500 by Oxfordshire County Council to buy a Nintendo Wii games
console, a table football game and to launch a competition to find the
school’s ultimate virtual music hero.
The money was awarded to the school last week by a new project called
the Community Chest Friends, which has been given £80,000 by the
Government to encourage play projects across the county and tackle
bullying.
The reason that play projects can help tackle bullying is that
hopefully through encouraging communication between young people with
an emphasis on a fun activity, friendships can be made, as well
providing an outlet where victims of bullying can relax.
Blake Lively may be one of the hottest teens on US TV, but
she has revealed that she hasn't always been so popular and was even bullied at
school.
"It was the only school where people were just
downright mean to me," The Gossip Girl star tells Vogue of her experience
at her private school in Los Angeles. "They would make fun of my clothes
because I dressed differently than the other kids."
Nowadays, Blake and her Gossip Girl character Serena are
lauded for their fashion sense.
