3 d. ago ‘Oh my God sir, you’re on Love Island!’ What happens to teachers who do reality TV?

How do you control a class of kids after the whole nation’s watched you backstabbing on The Traitors, snogging strangers on Love Island or starving half to death on Hunted? Three teachers reveal allWhen English teacher Joe Scott used to sign homework planners, it was because students were in trouble. But things changed in January, when the Southampton-based secondary schoolteacher appeared in the latest series of the BBC reality show The Traitors. Pupils started voluntarily pressing their planners into his hands – for autographs. “It felt funny,” says the 38-year-old. “It was such a juxtaposition.”Teachers have always gone on reality TV – but they haven’t always come off well. In 2001, a contestant on the second series of Big Brother was fired from her job at an east London girls’ school after her towel slipped on air. Six years later in 2007, parents complained after an American elementary school teacher missed 22 days of work to appear on The Bachelor. Just last year, a Canadian e...

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1 week ago TV star's horror battle to stay alive in Antarctic as penguins set to 'starve to death'

Bertie Gregory fronts a new documentary for Disney + as he lifts the lid on the Secrets of the Penguins. But filming for the three-parter made him face some gruelling challenges.

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2 w. ago Dolphins are starving to death in Florida. Scientists say a plankton bloom is to blame

Too many nutrients can cause microscopic marine algae to grow out of control with harmful effects on animals and people

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3 w. ago Palestinian teen ‘likely starved to death in Israeli prison,’ medical report says

Israeli doctor who saw Walid Ahmad’s autopsy said starvation was likely cause of death

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3 w. ago Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says

Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy

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3 w. ago Vegan 'rescued' lamb from farm only to dress it in a nappy and almost starve it to death

Louise Murguia has been banned from owning or keeping sheep indefinitely after she took a lamb from a farm because it appeared to have a broken leg before keeping it confined in her house for three weeks

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