‘It’s so normalised you think it’s part of your job’: the woman who lifted the lid on harassment in TV

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‘It’s so normalised you think it’s part of your job’: the woman who lifted the lid on harassment in TV
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Dawn Elrick set up an Instagram account for women to share their stories of workplace abuse and bullying in TV and film – and she has been inundated

awn Elrick had only been working as a runner in the TV industry for a few months when two male assistant producers told her they’d like to spit roast her. She was 22. She didn’t know what spit roasting meant so, that evening, she Googled it. “When I realised what they had said,” says Elrick, who is now 43, and works as a producer in Glasgow, “I felt so horrible.” She dreaded having to go back to work the next day.

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