There is an excellent site detailing female celebrities who were caned/slippered at school (Spanking Facts and Research) but does anyone know of one that details actors/popstars/sportsmen/footballers who were caned.
If not, let’s see how many names we can come up with; from biographies/magazine articles I have read I can name quite a few if anyone is interested.

Yes, I’m interested. Have you got anything about Virginia Wade?

There is an excellent site detailing female celebrities who were caned/slippered at school (Spanking Facts and Research) but does anyone know of one that details actors/popstars/sportsmen/footballers who were caned.
If not, let’s see how many names we can come up with; from biographies/magazine articles I have read I can name quite a few if anyone is interested.

I heard Russell Crowe ‘The Gladiator’ on the E! Channel talking about being ‘whacked on the arse by a sadist’ at school in New Zealand. His crime? Not knowing the words to the school song.

Mel Gibson, attended secondary school in Melbourne, Australia.

He said the boys had competitions to see who could get the greatst number of strokes of the tawse on their hands in a week, and that he usually won.

Estelle Skornik – The pretty young French girl who is well known in the UK for her appearances in a series of TV commercials advertising Renault Clio motor-cars admitted in a magazine interview, “School was like a prison to me, and I couldn’t wait to leave. I was a shy girl, I had a real lack of confidence, and school seemed to make me worse. My teacher was very strict. She once left our classroom for a few minutes so I went to the front and started imitating her – and she came back and caught me. She put me over her knee, pulled my knickers down, and smacked me in front of the whole class. It was very humiliating.”

There is an excellent site detailing female celebrities who were caned/slippered at school (Spanking Facts and Research) but does anyone know of one that details actors/popstars/sportsmen/footballers who were caned.
If not, let’s see how many names we can come up with; from biographies/magazine articles I have read I can name quite a few if anyone is interested.

Dear Brightenlad,

You are right – someone should set up a page equivalent to the female celebrity page. I can offer the following from cursory glances in autobiographies, interviews and the web: Nicholas Parsons, Barry Fry, Steve Bull (ex Wolves soccer player), George Melly, Jeremy Paxman, Michael Portillo all slippered; Rio Ferdinand says he was caned (but isn’t he too young?); the Pub Landlord – slipper; John Major – cane. There must be hundreds, especially sportsmaen of the older generation…

Good post Nicholas.

Yes, Rio Ferdinand was born in 1978, I believe the cane was banned in 1987ish, so it would be suprising if he was caned at school; I’d be interested to know where you heard that.

There cannot be many current footballers who could were been caned at school, but Teddy Sherringham has admitted he was slippered, and also caned on his hands. Ex-footballers Tony Cottee, Kevin Keegan and Bryan Robson were all caned on the backside, and Vinnie Jones got the slipper.

Any more?

You’re quite right about Vinnie Jones. You presumably read about it in his book like I did! I also remember the TV presenter Nick Owen saying that he was given the cane at school, and that it “took the wind right out of my sails!” I didn’t know about the other players you mentioned, though they’re obviously of the right generation. I’d love to hear any other names you might have.

My guess is that most players of that generation (with the exception of squeaky-clean Lineker, of course) would have been regular recipients of either the cane or slipper. Don’t know how we find out, but if we do, let’s post names and details here.

More footballers who admitted in their biographies that they were caned at school are Ian Rush and Ian Wright. Also in a Man Utd magazine questionnaire Dennis Irwin said he was caned a couple of times by some strict Catholic brothers.

Brightenlad, where did you find out about Teddy Sheringham? I looked in his autobiog. a couple of days ago, but didn’t see any reference. I cannot remember where I heard about Rio Ferdinand, I’m afraid. Do you have any info. on other soccer players – Emlyn Hughes, John Aldridge, Stuart Pearce maybe? Their on-the-pitch spirit must have been with them in the classroom, and would not have gone unchecked…!