Bullied by trolls for having famous father

MISS Clarkson has become a target for online bullies because she has a celebrity father, she reveals in her book.

A chapter, Dear Online Trolls, says the online abuse started when she was 17, with people ‘having a go at me simply because I had a famous dad, and you reckoned because of this I was fair game’.

Insults included ‘another brainless vapid celebrity spawn spending Daddy’s money’, ‘bloated mess’ and ‘lump of lard’, Miss Clarkson recalls.

Other comments included ‘Has Clarkson’s daughter eaten Richard Hammond?’ and ‘Looks like Vicky Pollard’. She writes: ‘There’s only so many of these you can read before you want to lock yourself in a room and cry until you can’t any more.

‘Surely you have to see this isn’t right? That really, no one deserves this. That seventeen-year-old, insecure little me – who at this point had literally done no more to warrant this abuse than be alive – didn’t deserve this. I should have been allowed to carry my puppy fat in peace, and my grown-up fat for that matter, without the fear that one of you low-lifes was going to try and tear me down. We’ve somehow got to the point where no one is safe online.’

Miss Clarkson also reveals: ‘Other than my weight, one of the biggest topics of conversation regarding my appearance that seem to pop up often is the size of my forehead. Apparently it’s enormous. Apparently I look like an alien. I did always suspect this to be the case, if I’m honest. I don’t remember a whole lot from my prep school but one thing I do remember quite clearly was a guy in my class telling me I had a face that looked like a plate because my forehead was “ginormous”.’

She adds: ‘To anyone currently being bullied at school and feeling that it will never end because the perpetrators will always be more powerful and more successful and more good-looking than you, you need to remember that people like this never grow up to be the people that you, or they, thought they would. Trust me.’