She claims in the book that the man pressed himself against her in bed but she had a stomach upset so he eventually left her alone and she “buried the experience until recently”. Sykes also recounts being deceived as an 18-year-old by a much older photographer into staying overnight with him on a shoot in Africa. Melanie Sykes working for The Big Breakfast in 1998. He was grabbing my breasts and being a complete pest. Handwritten by Sykes, Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I’ve Left Unsaid describes incidents including how collecting a Royal Television Society award was “tainted” as she “kept being touched up by a TV personality, who would not leave me alone. Her book offers a fresh perspective on the woman from Greater Manchester who rose to fame in the 1990s as the face of Boddingtons beer. “I want to help protect children and women and anyone who’s vulnerable … I’m just a tool in order to facilitate it.” She said she hoped her book and two films she is making would “shine a light” on autism, especially as her son was diagnosed autistic as an infant, and issues affecting vulnerable women, such as coercive control. Sykes said she would no longer be, “tap-dancing for corporations who couldn’t give two hoots about my wellbeing”, telling the Guardian that mainstream TV “just doesn’t interest me … I’m out of that game”. The book charts Sykes’s experiences of sexism, abusive relationships and racism, while providing an insight into the often toxic culture that she claims pervaded the fashion and showbusiness industries during her career.
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