After years of being ostracized by the royal family, Sarah Ferguson appears to be back in the fold once again!
12.12.2023 - 09:07 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The principal at Andrew Lloyd Webber-supported drama school ArtsEd branded students “snakes” and appeared to threaten them with legal action after being accused of favoritism, according to a leaked recording.
Julie Spencer has been at the eye of a bullying storm after a Deadline investigation revealed concerns over student and staff safety at the prestigious London drama school, which counts Lloyd Webber as president and donor.
ArtsEd said it was “surprised and disappointed” by the audio obtained by Deadline (listen to an edited version below) and on Monday formally launched an independent inquiry into the misconduct allegations. Spencer has not commented. She is on medical leave and will not return to work while the investigation is ongoing.
The leaked recording reveals how Spencer scolded a group of students for more than 30 minutes during a class meeting in March 2021. Spencer’s attack came after she claimed that an employee at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama had alerted her to accusations of favoritism from ArtsEd students.
Spencer apologized to those who felt that she was showing favoritism, but repeatedly accused her own students of spreading lies and demanded that they show proof for the “nonsense” allegations.
Spencer branded her class “snakes” and said she had “the money to do it to you” in an apparent threat to pursue defamation claims against the students. Ex-students who were in the room told Deadline that the apparent legal threat came after they had raised concerns about allegedly inappropriate remarks made by British theatre director Michael Attenborough, who led an ArtsEd workshop in 2021. Attenborough declined to comment.
ArtsEd graduates claimed that the audio showed how Spencer
After years of being ostracized by the royal family, Sarah Ferguson appears to be back in the fold once again!
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