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My name is Tracy Beaker and these are my survival files, | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
your essential guide to the ups and downs of growing up. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
-Tracy! -Tracy! | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
Life in the dumping ground has taught me a lot about stuff. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
-Tracy Beaker! -Scary stuff. -THEY SCREAM | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
Complicated stuff. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
And stuff that can make you want to scream. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
SHE SCREAMS | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
If you can cope with the stuff that goes down here, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
you can cope with anything. I've spent most of my life here - | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
first as a kid and now it's where I work. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
I've learnt a lot about friends. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
About enemies. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
About what life can throw at you. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
It's not always been pretty, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
but it's made me who I am today. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
And now I'm passing on my wisdom to you guys in a video blog. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Pay attention, I've lived through all this so you don't have to. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:07 | |
On the Tracy Beaker Survival Files this time - secrets, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
the stuff we don't want other people to know about | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
and the stuff that other people know that we wish we knew. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
We all have secrets, things we like to keep private, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
things we don't want other people to find out about. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Sometimes they can be nice things, like a surprise party. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
-ALL: Surprise! -Or maybe a secret present, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
-like the bench we made in memory of Frank's granddad. -What's that? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
"Eric Beverley Matthews, 1931-2010. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
"Frank's granddad who took him fishing | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
"and gave him a pocket watch." | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Or they can be a bit random. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
Crash once spent ages locked away with lots of empty baked bean cans. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:59 | |
What on Earth was he doing? | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
Secretly making a space rocket, that's what. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
Ready? Go! | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
ALL: Yay! Woo-hoo! | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
But secrets can be much more serious. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
Once, Lol got the hump about secret staff meetings. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
He was convinced the care workers were planning something terrible. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
So, he started bugging them. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
You bugged the progress report meeting? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:28 | |
Full marks for craftiness, minus 50 million for dullness. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
-Tracy, Nathan was wearing a suit. -So? | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
It was an important meeting, they have lots. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
They could decide to, I don't know, split me and Bouncer up. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
Oh, no Bouncer! No-one for Lol to hide behind. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
With Amber getting mysterious phone calls from Cam, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
who's to say they weren't talking about you three as well? | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
Us three? | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
I began to think that maybe he was right. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
For a start, something was going on between Cam and Amber. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
-Mysterious phone conversations. -Cam's on the phone. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:07 | |
-She phones at the most awkward times. -It's not for you. Amber. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
Maybe she's decided to foster someone who's less of a pain. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
-Hi, Cam! Bye, Tracy. -'And then, even worse.' | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
-Oh, Tracy... -Shall we go to my room? -'Secret visits.' -Yeah, OK. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:28 | |
Cam and me never keep secrets from each other. What was going on? | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
I was desperate to listen to the secret tape Lol had recorded, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
but like most of Lol's scams, his bugging plan went seriously wrong. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
Missing something? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
-But...? What did...? How did...? -You can't be a good spy if you can't | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
spot when you're being spied on. Later, dudes. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Have you just been out-scammed by Amber? 'What a nightmare! | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
'Now Amber had secret info about the Dumping Ground and everyone in it.' | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
-Hey, kids. Want to listen to this? -Yeah. -For a small fee. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
-BOTH: -We're not interested. -Fair enough. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
If you don't want to hear about which blonde person is so helpful | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
that the staff aren't trying too hard to find foster parents for her. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
Or which person's dad, who just got married, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
may be getting divorced again. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Or which member of staff whose name rhymes with Penny | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
may be off to a new care home in New York. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
And very soon Amber got the reaction she had been looking for. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:49 | |
-Could you help me with the washing up? -You'd love that! | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
"Get Louise to do it, she never complains." I'm tired of it! | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
Are things really OK, Dad? I mean really, really? | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
You're not having any arguments? | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
What do you mean the normal kind?! | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
One miserable Dumping Ground with one very bad atmosphere, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
and it was worst of all for Lol - | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
partly because he was the muppet who let Amber get the tape, | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
but mostly because he was worried about what the staff | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
had planned for him and Bouncer. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
What if they decide to split us up? Send us to different homes? | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
Where has this daft idea suddenly come from? | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
You can't split up Lol and Bouncer, they're a team. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
Still, I think it will do them good in the long run. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
I mean, to be fair, they're too old to be sharing a room. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
Lol got the wrong end of the stick, but we didn't know that. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
We were desperate to learn all the Dumping Ground secrets. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
-'The issue of stationery...' -When we managed to play the tape, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
we were on the edge of our seats, ready for revelations... | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
'Ordering the right amount of paper... | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
REWINDS TAPE | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
'The amount of tea we usually expect at the end of the month...' | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
Is that it? | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Yeah. Fascinating, stationery and teabags. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
The tape confirmed what we knew - Elaine was a gold medallist | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
in the Olympics of boring. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
I've had enough of this! | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
We had too much information, and all of it dull. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
We just needed some straight answers. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
Are me and Lol being split up and sent to different care homes? | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
-What? Of course not! -Thank you. -You're not going to New York? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:41 | |
-I most certainly am not. -But you've got relatives there. -Yep, exactly. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:47 | |
They were all OK then, but what about the secret plans Cam and Amber | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
-had been making behind my back? -KNOCKING | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
-Hi, Tracy. Are you busy? -Too busy to talk to you. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
I'm making a list - reasons to foster Amber. She won't mess up | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
your kitchen, cos she doesn't know what it's for. You could laugh | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
at one another's rubbish hairdos. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
You think I want to foster Amber? | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
You know that before Amber came here she used to run away a lot? | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
That's what I was talking to her about. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
-For an article, about runaways. -An article? Is that all? | 0:07:20 | 0:07:26 | |
SHE GROWLS | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
I knew it would be something like that all along. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
So, as it turned out, there was nothing to be scared of. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
The secrets weren't as bad as we feared. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
In fact, some of them were brilliant. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
-What's that? -Just a little chat the staff had about you, | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
-after we told them about you. -We tried the tape recorder again, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
-with someone sensible in charge. -Did it work? -Like a dream. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
-I don't believe you. -That's not our problem. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
-There's a great bit about her imaginary friend. -Give me that! | 0:07:55 | 0:08:01 | |
We've all got stuff we don't want other people to know, | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
stuff that doesn't fit with the image we want to show to the world. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
Amber likes to think of herself as hard, but her imaginary pal, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
Mr Snuggles, proves that even Amber has her soft side. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
Mr Snuggles was never going to stay under the radar forever. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
Nothing here stays secret for long. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
And especially when Gus is on the case. That boy misses nothing. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
He writes it all down in his notebooks, too, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
as Frank and Liam discovered. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Look! | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
Gus's notebook? | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
Gus was away for a few days and they got the job of cleaning his bedroom. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
He sees everything that goes on in this place, and he don't lie. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
Have you seen this? Gina's husband calls her Snuggle Bum. What's wrong? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:56 | |
But some of the secrets in Gus's notebooks were no laughing matter. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:01 | |
'June 6th. I went to the shopping centre with Liam and Frank. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
'The burger smell made Frank's tummy gurgle, | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
'but we had no money, | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
-'so Liam said, "Let's do the dive." ' -He wrote about the dive! | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
'We looked in the bin and found some chips. Then Liam said, "Jackpot!" | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
-'Then Frank said, "Sweet as." ' -Sweet as. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
'He did not say sweet as what. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
'Liam pointed out a man and Frank said, "Yes, that one." ' | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
Gus's notebooks don't lie. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
And after they had faithfully promised Mike | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
their burger diving days were over, too! | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
-What are you two doing? -Just tidying Gus's room. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
And reading his private notebooks while you're at it? | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
Give them to me, come on. Come on! | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
Thank you. All of them. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
Right. I want you to tidy Gus's room before he gets back, right? | 0:10:14 | 0:10:20 | |
We need them pages otherwise we're in serious trouble. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
Gina, when you got your mitts on Gus's notebooks, | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
wasn't the idea to confiscate them so no-one would read them? | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
That's right. Gus's notebooks are very important to him. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
We didn't want the other young people to invade his privacy. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
But it was OK for you to have a good nosy? | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
It's important that we understand what is going on in Gus's head. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
You know, he may have had concerns he felt he couldn't raise with us. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:54 | |
-It's our duty of care. -Duty of care or duty of snooping? -Tracy. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
That's disgusting! | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
-Looks interesting. -Yes. I was just about to lock these in the office. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
Good idea. Listen, why don't I do that for you? | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
You can get started on dinner. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
Mike, as Gina had already done your "duty of care", | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
did you need to read the notebooks, too? | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
Well, something you learn with experience is to have two pairs | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
-of eyes across something is highly beneficial. -Oh, highly beneficial. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:41 | |
Oh, Mike, how could you? | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
I'm sorry, I couldn't put it down. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
Did you know that Gus has pie charts of your monthly biscuit consumption? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
No, but I read about the top ten excuses | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
for your silent but deadlies. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
Oh, no, Gus is mistaken. We've had a problem with the drains. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
A problem with the drains! AKA, excuse number four. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
Everyone faithfully promised they would leave Gus's notebooks alone. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:14 | |
Yeah, sure they would. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
# Take out the papers and the trash... # | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
It all got sorted. Gus's books were for Gus's eyes only. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
Although, I did spot a little bit of misleading information. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:31 | |
So, um, I got rid of it. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
# ..Let's see that dust fly with that broom | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
# Get all that garbage out of sight | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
# Or you don't go out Friday night | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
# Yakety-yak, don't talk back. # | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
It's important to respect the kids' property, | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
so I kept the notebooks safe until Gus returned. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Apart from that one page, which I destroyed for good staff relations. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:56 | |
# ..Let's see that dust fly with that broom | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
# Get all that garbage out of sight | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
# Or you don't go out Friday night Yakety-yak, don't talk back. # | 0:13:02 | 0:13:08 | |
Phew, that was us off the hook... we thought. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
Someone's been reading my notebooks! | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
-You've got to hand it to him, that boy misses nothing. -Um... | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
I'm sorry. We moved the books when we were cleaning out your room. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:25 | |
Yeah, but you didn't have to read them. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
-Or tear pages out. -Someone tore pages out? -What pages were torn out? | 0:13:28 | 0:13:33 | |
Book four, pages seven and eight. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
-Frank bumped into a man to get money. -You've been burger diving again! | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
Right. That's it! | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
You are finally and totally banned from the shopping centre. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
-You can't do that! -No, not fair! -Not fair? You two have committed fraud! | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
Mike is letting you off lightly. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
Also book three, page 16, Gina's actual dress size. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
-THEY LAUGH -That's enough, Gus. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
Also, book two, page seven. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
Mike spilled coffee on Gina's laptop and blamed us kids. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
It was an accident. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
Gus, we're all really, really sorry. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
The four of them had let Gus down by prying into his secrets. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
How long would it take before he could trust anyone again? | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Next time you want to read my private notebooks, just ask me. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:30 | |
Oh, as it happens, it took about two seconds. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
Gus has probably got the right idea. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
Keeping a secret in the Dumping Ground | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
is pretty much impossible. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
So, what have we learned about secrets so far to put | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
into my survival files? | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
Secrets are a big part of life, whether it's nice secrets | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
like planning a surprise party or less nice stuff, | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
like the secrets Amber pretended she knew. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
Secrets work both ways. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
We all have things we want to keep private. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
But most of us can't wait to find out other people's secrets. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:08 | |
We all have a nosy streak, especially at the Dumping Ground. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
I can't tell you who I think is the nosiest of the lot, it's a secret. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
All I can say is their names rhyme with "bike" and "Mina". | 0:15:16 | 0:15:20 | |
This may seem obvious, but the big thing about a secret is that | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
once everyone knows it, it isn't a secret any more. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
Some secrets are harder to keep than others. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
-Come on, Frank. -Pass the ball. -Take this, for example. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
It started with a game of football. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
-SIRENS WAIL -What was that? | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
Little did the players know what was coming next, | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
that the Dumping Ground was about to be hit by... | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
..the biggest, most troublesome secret the place had ever known! | 0:15:54 | 0:16:01 | |
SIRENS WAIL | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
Whoa! So, what should the boys do? | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
We can't just take it, that would be stealing. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
Finders keepers, losers weepers. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
-That's the law. -You don't actually think that's a law? -The point is, | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
the guy is a crook, so we deserve it more than him, right? | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
But what if he comes back? | 0:16:39 | 0:16:40 | |
Good point. Let's get this stuff inside, come on. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
'Step one was getting the stash safely inside | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
'without anyone noticing.' | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
-Liam, wait! -'Which was trickier than you might think.' | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
-Hi, Tracy. -Hi. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
-Ah! -Toby, are you all right? | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
-Ow! -What happened? -Ow! | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
-Toby, are you OK? -Yeah, I'm fine. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
'Because the harder you try to be sneaky, the more likely | 0:17:03 | 0:17:08 | |
'you are to attract the attention of anyone who happens to be watching.' | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
-What's in the bag, Toby? -Get out! -No, I want to know what's in the bag. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:18 | |
So do I. Come on, let's see. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
Yeah, a massive bag of money. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
You can see why they wanted to keep it quiet. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
Trouble is, Carmen knew. I mean, she isn't exactly MI5 material. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
I can't believe he said that. I CAN keep secrets. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
As long as nobody asks me directly. Then I find it really hard. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
It's too risky, we don't even know where the money came from. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
Did Carmen really think that stealing | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds would be easy? | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
Sure enough, the Dumping Ground soon got some unwelcome visitors. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
Can you come down, please? House meeting. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
-Now? -Right now. -But we were just going out. Can't we do this later? | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
Don't ask me, ask the police. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:03 | |
The police? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
Something was up with the kids that day, but what? | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
I just couldn't quite put my finger on it. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
-How much money are we talking about exactly? -We really can't say. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:16 | |
-Like a grand? More than a grand? -Recovering the money is a priority. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
-More than a grand? -But our first priority is to keep you safe. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
-Safe from what? -I don't want to frighten you, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
but there are some very dangerous people looking for this money. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
-It's all right, Carmen, don't be scared. -It's OK, I'm not. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:36 | |
See what I mean about Carmen and secrets? | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
Whenever she tries to keep something quiet, | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
it's like she's on a mission to spread the news to the world. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
Present! | 0:18:44 | 0:18:45 | |
Thanks, Carm. I love it. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
Thank you. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:50 | |
-What's with the stuff? -Oh, just replacements, | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
you know, for the stuff that got nicked at Berrywood. Lily, no! | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
-You found the money, didn't you? -What money? | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
The money the police were looking for. Gina told me everything. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
-I don't know what you mean. -So, it's not in the usual place? | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
The usual place? | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
No, don't! That's my money! Lily! | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
I wanted to tell Lily about the money, she's my best friend. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
But I knew the others would go mad if I did. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
I never thought Carmen would lie to me. It just shows what money can do. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:32 | |
Do want to know a secret? I'm really glad she found out. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
I was a bit sad that Carmen didn't tell me, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:39 | |
but we didn't fall out over it. Not like everyone else. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
-All right, everyone gets their fair share, agreed? -No. -Agreed. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
-I think I should get some. -And Jeff. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
Good, we'll do it according to age. The older you are, the more you get. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
-No way! -That's not fair. No offence, but who put you in charge? | 0:19:56 | 0:20:01 | |
Well, if you want Mike and Gina to figure out we've got it, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
you carry on spending. We'll know who to blame then, won't we? | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
Bet you wish you had shared with me now. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
# Money, money, money makes the world go round | 0:20:10 | 0:20:14 | |
# Money, money, money, money, money... # | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
This secret had grown too big. It was tearing the place apart. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
Once I found out about it, I told the kids they had no choice. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
We had to put an end to this secret once and for all. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
But once it was out there, it was a weight off everyone's shoulders. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
It must've been quite a relief to not have to keep it secret any more. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
Relief? I was gutted. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
Really gutted. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Really, really gutted. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
Yeah, they say that, but they were relieved really. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Why is that, do you think? | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
We all knew secretly if we kept something that wasn't ours | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
we would get into massive trouble in the end. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
-What's this? -It's a long story. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
There you go, another Dumping Ground secret that didn't stay secret | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
very long. That's this place for you. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
Although, it's not true every single time. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
There was one secret that did get kept very well here, maybe too well. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:31 | |
If I hadn't happened to be looking for Liam's file that time, | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
it might have stayed secret to this day. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
I was gobsmacked. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
Randomly stuffed there at the bottom of a filing cabinet, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
was a letter from my mum that had obviously been there for years. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
'This is what I've been waiting for for most of my childhood. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
'I never understood why my mum hadn't been in touch | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
'and now it turned out the big secret was that she had.' | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
She's my mum, you have to give me her address! | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
It's for your own good, Tracy. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:02 | |
Grown-ups always say that when they won't tell you the truth. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
I want to get out of this dump, and you're trying to stop me! | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
-I'm not! -I was looking for my mum's address. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
I want to write to her and tell her that I'm back here | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
and get her to come and get me. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
She knows you're here - Elaine wrote to her. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
But if I write to her, she'll know it's urgent. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
I'm sorry, Tracy, it's just not possible. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
How can you keep a child from her mother? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Don't blame me if my behavioural problems get any worse! | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
And here it all was, everything I had been looking for | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
all those years, just sitting there in the office. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
So much for "there are no secrets in the Dumping Ground." | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
They certainly kept this quiet. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
We did what we thought was best at the time. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
-It's a letter from my birth mum! -Yes, saying that she might visit. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
And she always let you down before. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
Cam and I thought it was best not to show you | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
until we had some confirmation. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
-Cam knew about this? -Well, yes, but... | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
This just got worse. Cam knew, too, after she promised me | 0:22:59 | 0:23:04 | |
there'd be no secrets between us. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
I couldn't believe that she could be so two-faced, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
and for such a long time. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
Why are you bringing this up? This is five years old. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
-I thought you knew. -If I knew about it, I'd have said something. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
Well, we were trying to protect you. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
And we were right. She never even applied for visiting rights. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
You should have told me. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
At least I'd have known she was thinking about me. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
I'm sorry. It felt like the right thing to do at the time. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
What other secrets have you kept from me? | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
Have I got a dad somewhere out there I don't know about? | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
I was in a state of shock. Who could I trust? | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
Who else had been lying to me? | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
I knew it was best to keep calm | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
until I worked out what to do about it. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
I quit! | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
# Keep on running | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
# Keep on hiding... # | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
Yep, keep calm and work out my next move. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
That's what I needed to do, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
but what I did do was shout my mouth off and storm out. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
Big mistake. As soon as I calmed down, | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
I realised I didn't really want to lose my job after all. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
-Mike, I'm really sorry about earlier. -It's OK. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
No, it's not OK. I made a mistake, I want to stay. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
'But was I in for a nasty shock.' | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
-I'm sorry, Tracy, it's not that simple. -But... | 0:24:43 | 0:24:48 | |
Look, I don't think that you made a mistake, I think I did. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:54 | |
The whole business with the letter showed me just how hard it is | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
for you to come back. | 0:24:58 | 0:24:59 | |
I shouldn't have said you could come and work here. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
This didn't look good. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:03 | |
I didn't know who I could trust any more and now I'd lost my job. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
Perfect. But then, the king of secrets, Gus, stepped in. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
-He had been making one of his lists. -Things Tracy has done right. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:16 | |
"Rosie says Tracy makes her laugh. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
"Lily says Tracy is the only other person Poppy lets tie her shoelaces. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:26 | |
"Sapphire says Tracy was rude to a boy who phoned her. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
"She says that's a good thing. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
"Liam says he likes it with Tracy here | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
"cos he's not the only one causing trouble." | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
-That might have been a joke. -Jeff likes Tracy, Gus. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:42 | |
-"Tee says Tracy..." -Thanks, Gus, thanks. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
I have 11 more things Tracy has done right on my list. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:50 | |
That's OK, I think I've got your point. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
Now, why don't you leave us alone? Please. Tracy and I need to talk. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
It seems like the kids want you to stay. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
If you do, you are making a huge commitment to these children. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:10 | |
You can't keep letting them down. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
I won't, I promise. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
I know I've got to stop living in the past and move on. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
He was right, you know? No more secrets, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
no more obsessing about my birth mother. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
ALL: Yay! | 0:26:26 | 0:26:27 | |
This was a time for a fresh start, with people I knew cared about me. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
Everyone here is my family, and that's no secret. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
I don't care if the whole world knows that. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
So, the truth is out there. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
I'm sharing everything I know about secrets with the lot of you | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
by uploading it to my survival files. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
And there's a lot to take in. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:55 | |
We all have secrets. Some people can keep them for years, | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
while others find it hard not to blurt it all out. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
I think the best secrets are the happy kind, | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
like secretly organising a surprise party. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
But others can cause much more upset, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
like the big bag of money that had everyone fighting for a share. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
Deciding whether to keep something secret or not can be a tough | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
decision, like it was for Mike and Cam with the letter from my mum. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
Do remember, though, secrets can soon lose all their power. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
If everyone tells just one person, before very long, everyone knows. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
And a secret that everyone knows, isn't a secret at all. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
So, that's the Beaker Guide To Secrets safely uploaded | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
to the Tracy Beaker Survival Files. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
More gems of wisdom from my experiences next time. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
There's no need to keep that to yourself, tell all your friends. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
Remember, I've been through all this so you don't have to. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
# Secrets, we walk in the sun | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
# We've got secrets You can't come with us | 0:28:00 | 0:28:04 | |
# Cos our secrets are not for everyone | 0:28:04 | 0:28:10 | |
# Secrets are not for everyone. # | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 |