Jamie Laing

And the leader of the top year ran the whole house.

The teachers didn't.

The boys did.

And so therefore, your mentality is, right, you've got to survive.

So what I did is a survival mechanism, right?

Is you became friends with the top years.

That's what you would do, right?

But then as you came up the years, you would then become the leader yourself.

So it was very hierarchical.

Without a doubt.

My first year was dominated by Jacks.

Right.

So it was tough.

So, I mean, I could tell you some horrific stories which happened to us.

I mean, some people call it horrific.

I saw it.

What was very odd, right, is that if you were... This sounds terrible.

I'm sure it's all changed.

But at my school, if you were...

strong enough you were kind of picked on by the old years if you weren't you were kind of left it's okay so because I was seen to be quite cocky and confident it was a sign of respect to you know be picked on in a way so I had things like one night they came and sprayed links on me and set fire to me