Fiona Phillips

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TV girl Fiona Phillips has revealed how her schooldays were made hell by a brutal teacher who gave her regular spankings

And she realized after she left that the sadistic teacher was probably getting a sick thrill out of his punishments.

Blonde Fiona, 35, soon to replace Anthea Turner as the breakfast station's anchorwoman, made the astonishing revelations on LWT chat show The Late Jonathan Ross.

During a discussion last Friday on corporal punishment, she revealed: "There was one schoolmaster who, I suppose, will have to remain nameless. "But he would regularly bend me over and give me the slipper. It got to be a regular thing when most of the time I hadn't done anything wrong. "It would be a case of, `Oh, there's Fiona, let's give her a good beating`"

News of the World film critic Jonathan asked if Fiona thought her teacher was getting a kick out of his punishments.

Fiona replied :"Yes, I'm sure you're right. "I didn't realize that at the time, of course, I was too young."

Fiona added that her ordeal has left her bitterly opposed to the return of corporal punishment in schools.

She said:" Spanking doesn't make any difference. "In fact the spankings made me behave far worse because it made me so angry."