I hate to start yet another thread on our sweet, lovely, not anorexic, not selfish/self-centred, and certainly not boring but bat-eared Natalie Appleton, but it made sense after reading the following in today's Daily Mirror.

"AS contests go, choosing history's most annoying woman was always going to be difficult...until Natalie Appleton came along.

The former pop singer managed to shove the likes of Margaret Thatcher, Marie Antoinette, Nigella Lawson and even Linda Barker off the top of the shortlist with her appalling behaviour during I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here this week.

Toppling those notorious characters takes some doing, but Natalie's whinging, bullying and bitching certainly did the trick.

As a nation, we are a forgiving bunch and at first many of us probably put down the 31-year-old's behaviour to the fact she could have been homesick and missing her kids - especially when she started moaning and crying within 24 hours of hitting the Aussie jungle.

But when she turned on poor Sophie Anderton in the vain hope of winning popularity with the rest of the group, she revealed her true colours. Her bullying was horrible to watch and she even had the gall to blame it on a loss of temper.

Our initial sympathy towards Natalie had evaporated and it was no surprise viewers reached for the phone in their thousands and voted for her to complete the live bushtucker trial.

Here was our chance to see the former All Saints star punished. And she even managed to cut short that simple pleasure when she ducked out of finishing the Leap of Faith challenge. All right, she did dive into a vat of slimy eels and another full of fly pupae before she stopped and declared: "I'm going to be sick. I can't do it."

But we also wanted to see her suffer the ordeal of being dumped in the other tanks of putrid fish heads, ants and cockroaches.

Even presenters Ant and Dec were chomping at the bit to shove her into one of the stinking pools. When she complained she wanted to throw up, the normally pleasant Ant replied: "Good."

And as the first-aider came on to give her oxygen we prayed it was chloroform to keep her quiet."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebrity/tm...name_page.html

What do you think? With apologies to her poor children, she already has my vote - as the worst on TV.

the accusations of bullying really is becomming a reality TV cliche these days

I suppose it has to be said, if it is true.
Also, bullying takes several forms, either subtle or psychological or direct and physical.

You can pretty much pick anyone out as a bully in any argument then cant you? If you really want to.

maybe im bullying you right now !

But seriously, its hard for me to see Natalie as the bully as she seems far weaker, physically and emotionally than sophie

That is where she got you pulling for her.

As I have previously posted, bullying takes several forms, either subtle or psychological or direct and physical. Natalie uses emotional psychological bullying tactics.

Natalie has mastered the psychological trick of using her frailty to maximum advantage = maximum sympathy votes - in order to get what she wants.

A physical bully just uses size or brute strength to achieve the same objective.

Hehe On the contrary i cant stand her. You obviously havent seen any of my other posts about Natalie I just dont happen to think shes a bully.


As i have previously posted, you can say anything is bullying and justify it by that benchmark.

I think a more appropriatre way of describing her would be _manipulative_ rather than bully.

I dont think Natalies style involves enough intimidation, psycological, emotional or otherwise, to be called bullying.

Also, aren't they all using subtle (or not so subtle) psychological tricks for attention seeking and to gain the upper hand in there ?

Its interesting to see that Sophie plays the bully card in the bush telegraph, and you have people popping up on the forums copying what she says...

All good points. Still, bullying is as the bully does.

Again, without a doubt, the most irritating most stupid woman on TV!!!
I find it hard to believe she was even born, with her "inability" to try to do her share of the trial.