WALKING into her local supermarket, Chantelle Devonshire braces herself as the security guard catches her eye. That's because the 23 year old, who is from Cambridge, says as a Gypsy she faces a daily struggle to fight prejudice and she can’t even get her food shopping in Tesco or pick up a new outfit without a backlash. Not only is Chantelle followed by suspicious staff in shops, but she's been banned from restaurants, accused of stealing and denied entry into nail salons.
Fuming about what she calls 'unfair judgement', Chantelle who previously revealed what school holidays are like on caravan sites , says: “You can’t class us all the same. It’s not fair. “It does get to me, I’m a good person.
I’ve never spoken to anyone wrongly. I was brought up with good manners. “I get accused of things because of what other people have done.
“I get dirty looks and get looked up and down, it’s so unfair. “We’re not the only community with bad people in it. People can’t keep painting us with the same brush.
“People always see the worst in us and they never see the good. They only see the bad stuff on the TV and we all get classed as the same.” Chantelle says she first experienced prejudice when she was a teenager, on what she thoughts would be a normal cinema trip.
“The first time it ever happened to me, I was about 14 years old," she says. “We were standing in the queue, giggling and laughing, waiting for the film. “When we got to the desk, the man that .
