A 15-YEAR-OLD influencer has shared a “horror school trip” where the teacher got annoyed when fans wanted a photo with her.
Amelie, better known as Ami to her fans, who claims to have a PrettyLittleThing deal worth £100k, uploaded a video revealing how she got in trouble with her school.
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In a clip which has racked up 231,000 likes, Ami said: “Get ready with me while I tell you a traumatic story of what happened to me whilst I was on a school trip.
“Obviously I’ve done social media for a couple of years now and my school was kind of aware of me doing this but they’d never took me out or seen it in public.”
Ami said she was on a compulsory geography trip during her GCSEs when the incident took place.
She continued: “We had to go round and interview people and ask them questions about this area.
“I’m not the type of girl to be like ‘guys I might get noticed today,’ I kept it to myself.
“When I was there I was getting noticed.
“When this teacher was standing next to me, a group of people asked me for a photo.
“Instead of my teacher being understanding – I wasn’t showing my school or anything like that – he went up screaming at me in front of these people telling me he’s going to get me excluded, ‘this is against the school rules’, ‘you aren’t allowed to take pictures with people’.
“I felt so uncomfortable because I have a reputation – I love meeting people. I think it’s so nice.
“I thought it was very disrespectful and unprofessional the way he went about this whole situation.”
Ami said she posted a video after the incident which joked “put a finger down if you’ve ever been really embarrassed on a school trip.”
However, it didn’t go down well with the school, and her headteacher emailed her at the weekend.
The email included: “We have some clear expectations around the use of phones in school. They simply aren’t allowed.
“We also have a duty to safeguard you and our staff and the use of socials and phones absolutely isn’t ok.
“You can appreciate any member of the public approaching one of our students for photos when you are a child and in our care is also not ok, regardless of your influencer role outside of school.”
Ami said she was left upset by the whole incident and had to do a two-hour meeting with the school about deleting the video.
Six months short of her 16th birthday, Amelie, better known as Ami to her fans, is PrettyLittleThings youngest ever ambassador having signed a deal estimated to be worth between £80-£100k in January.
The teen’s sponsorship deal with the brand, which also boasts millionaire Molly-Mae Hague on their books, and the £300 shopping hauls that make a regular appearance on her YouTube channel mean that Ami is one of the most fashion-forward teens on the web.
Her Get Ready With Me videos on TikTok get up to nine million views a piece and she now boasts over two million followers.
Ami previously spoke to Fabulous for our Bling Kids series, which features some of the most wealthy and successful children and teens on the planet.
She said: “Now when I leave the house, fans come up to me in the street, I have become just like the influencers I always admired, being an ambassador for PrettyLittleThing was just the cherry on top of the cake.
“My life has been totally transformed, for example this evening I’ve been invited to watch Chris Brown from a private box which is completely surreal.
“But with all the fame and fortune came a lot of hate.
“At the start of my social media career my classmates weren’t positive whatsoever.
“I had people making comments and taking the mick all the time.
“I really didn’t enjoy school at all, my peers reacted how I expected them to and I think a lot of it stemmed from jealousy.
“Now I’m in year 11 it’s got a lot easier, people put their head down and don’t really talk to me about social media.
“Of course, being so well known online means it can be hard to know who to trust.
“I have had to grow up a bit faster than others so I can see straight through the people who are just using me.
“There will be people who want to do a TikTok with me just to boost their views. It’s quite easy to suss out who is using me.
“I’m lucky that I am able to rise above any trolls, but of course they leave comments about my make-up and my skin, they even call my videos cringe.”
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