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Chatterbox School report to YT second school students goes Heartbreak year with for back at a two High! SCOTT ABI TUCKER, MAJOR, 22, plays music-lover Jodie 20, plays tough id you like school? Did you have any favourite teachers trouble- Yeah did! I was just like my at school? character Jodie really I really loved my music teacher. He was attentive in the subjects I liked and maker a everything a good teacher should be. Rivers day-dreamer in the ones I didn't. I Rather than looking down on the class, he was far from being a swot though! treated everyone as an individual. That ow feel back did on going it but I awful! I loved just I know English, couldn't two do history plus maths.

two and is I'm music four, still the kind want of to chance do attitude to well. develop from and teachers makes gives you you set for the second but that's about it! Making new When I was 14, I set up a band at series of friends was the best thing about school called 'The Jets'. I've sung in five or Heartbreak High? school for me. six bands since then, but it was the There wasn't that encouragement to develop my interest much of a gap Do you still stay in contact with from my music teacher that helped get me certainly not as long your school-mates? started in the first place. as the six-week Definitely! And it doesn't matter to summer holiday you them that I'm on TV now.

Yes, I do Do you think kids show teachers real students get! natter about my work when we enough respect nowadays? But I felt the same get together but there's absolutely I guess it depends on the child. I mean, excitement I used to no hint of jealousy. there were a lot of people in my school feel on my first day My closest friend from school is who were so rude to the teachers it was back at school. actually a nurse, which I think is unbearable. Then there were those who We weren't sure if a much more admirable than being were incredibly polite.

I think I cruised new series would go an actress. I couldn't even begin along somewhere in the middle! ahead, so it was great to do what she does. Teachers have to earn a child's respect knowing we'd be though. If I ever went behind on a subject together as a team for Heartbreak High's Rivers and the teacher told me off, I became another year. Scott goes with less interested the flow as Does it sometimes feel as if you in catching up.

Scott, were you a never left school then? But if he said, troublemaker at school? You could say that! Going to HH was 'Hey! Don't Not really! I loved going to school. It really hard because one minute I was a worry about really is the best time of your life. I liked school-leaver and the next was back! this. Here's how my friends, the teachers and what you could get away with! I spent about 90 per cent of my time out of my uniform and playing at being a real smart alec! Do you ever get told off on set? All the time! Our directors think they're teachers, telling you what to do and getting annoyed if you don't do it. They shout at me for talking when I should be learning my lines and for mucking around when I should be concentrating on a scene.

Laughing in-between takes doesn't go down too well either. It's really just like being back at school! THE OFFICIAL OUR Heart For more HiGH gossip, photos and interviews check out The Official Heartbreak High Book (£4.99, BBC Books) and catch the new series on Tuesdays, 6.30pm, BBC 2. It's actually filmed in a real school building and we're expected to be there from 8am to 6pm five days a week. Though now homework is learning your lines rather than writing them! Our readers might recognise you as Darren Stark from Neighbours another bad guy! I played Darren for three months. He was really aggressive and completely out for himself.

Rivers has got that evil streak in him too, but he's also got a huge soft spot. I know he's got a funny way of showing it, but all Rivers wants is to stay out of trouble and be loved. Were you ever a bully? I've been a victim of bullying, so I'd never do it to anyone else. I get picked on because I'm on TV. People push me around in the street, call me names and threaten to beat me up.

I just try and talk my way out of it. I've been scared at times but retaliating with 4 violence isn't the answer. I can I would've made a real effort to pull myself back into it. What was the most heartbreaking event you had to deal with at school? Leaving! It was weird because my school years were so comfortable and secure. You get up, go to class, see your friends, go home.

It means your whole life is mapped out for you. But all the time you're building up to this great day that you're set free and can choose what to do with your life. Then it comes, and you suddenly think, 'What happens YOUNG TELEGRAPH Musical Abi is in tune with Jodie 14..