Sexist boss made Apprentice’s Elle pick up dog mess
A STAR of The Apprentice was forced to quit her job after suffering a barrage of sexist comments from men who labelled her ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’.
Elle Stevenson, 27, had notes calling her a ‘c***’ stuck on her computer, had to pick up dog faeces left by her boss’s pet and was branded a ‘s*** employee’ who ‘couldn’t arrange a period in a vagina’.
In 2015, Ms Stevenson – describing herself as a ‘geezer bird’ – featured in the BBC show with Lord Sugar where, at 21, she was the youngest ever contestant. Later she joined waste disposal firm Eden Beck, in Uxbridge, west London, as a £30,000 a year office manager.
A tribunal was told that in a letter to finance director
Stuart Mayall complaining of sexist attitudes, a fellow employee noted Ms Stevenson had to clean up after his director son David’s dog on a ‘daily basis’. When she posted a picture on a work
WhatsApp group of her face showing an allergic reaction, colleague James Day commented: ‘Still ugly – need you ask’ and ‘swelling an improvement’. Another colleague wrote that she looked like ‘elephant man’, while other messages described her as a ‘dirty tramp’.
Ms Stevenson, of Windsor, sued the company for sex and disability discrimination and constructive dismissal after a mugging left her with severe facial injuries and PTSD.
She was badly beaten by two men near London’s Charing Cross station in December 2018. Eden Beck bosses began redundancy proceedings when she was unable to fully return to work for several months.
Ruling in her favour, Watford employment judge Stephen Bedeau said Ms Stevenson was the ‘victim of appalling sexual abuse’ in a ‘work environment that was male dominated with the use of blatantly sexist and offensive language’.
A hearing to decide the level of compensation will be held later.
Field of dreams: Meadow (above) on the catwalk in Paris and backstage, and Anne Hathaway (right)
SHE may be teetotal these days, but that didn’t stop Kate Moss getting leathered for Paris Fashion Week.
The 47-year-old former party animal showed why she is still the queen of fashion as she appeared remotely to big up the Givenchy show. Kate looked stunning in a spray-on black number, completing the vampish look with open-toed black leather boots.
The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway, 38, marked the occasion by wearing a studded-sleeve creation from the iconic French label, and five-time Wimbledon champion Venus
Williams, 40, posted a snap of herself in a black mesh top.
One Givenchy model who appeared on the actual runway in
Paris rather than sending a snap from home was
Meadow Walker, the 22-year-old daughter of
Fast & Furious star Paul, who died in a car crash in
2013.
Hide-hi: Leatherclad Kate appears for Givenchy remotely