STRICTLY STAR MOLLY: WE MUST HELP KIDS WHO ARE BEING BULLIED.

STRICTLY star Molly Rainford says it’s important kids being bullied at school receive more support.

The CBBC presenter is backing a new campaign which encourages victims to ask for help.

The scheme involves children writing letters to anonymous pen-pals.

Commenting on the crusade, Molly told GB News: “I think it’s a really, really great scheme to be honest, like I actually when I first got involved with this campaign, I wrote a little letter to my younger self, which I thought was really cool.

“I am an anti-bullying ambassador and I started working with them when I was 11, actually just around the time that I did Britain’s Got Talent.

“So it was the first time that I’d ever been exposed to a big audience and having good comments and bad comments.”

In an interview during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she continued: “I think it’s really important to be able to speak but also maybe without having the pressure of speaking directly to someone.

“If it’s anonymous, sometimes you feel a bit braver to say what you’re feeling.”

Asked if many primary schools have signed up, she said: “Yes, loads and a lot of schools are being partnered with other schools so then they can send letters to not just their classmates, but people in other schools, which is really cool.

“It’s not just in your school that’s happening, or it’s not just in your school that you might feel this way.

“And also, what are we doing to make this area a positive place and what can you do in your school?”

The scheme, backed by the Nationwide Building Society, involves putting a positivity postbox in schools which allow pupils to write letters to anonymous penpals.

Molly was joined in her TV interview by anti-bullying ambassador Wally Ray, a pupil at Cranbrook Primary School in Ilford in Essex.

He told Eamonn Holmes: I became an anti-bullying ambassador to make sure that the children of the school have a safe environment. I am very passionate about equality and justice.

“I thought that maybe I can help other children who are not treated fairly, who are not being treated fairly.”