TELEVISION presenter Selina Scott told Bolton students how American Presidential hopeful Donald Trump once showered her with affection.

The celebrity told of her meetings with Mr Trump when she was invited to Bolton School as a guest speaker to celebrate the achievements of young people.

Ms Scott, who was speaking at the school’s girls’ division sixth form presentation event, said she met Mr Trump when she was making a fly-on-the-wall documentary about him in America in 1995.

She told how he tried to impress her with helicopter rides over Manhattan and had red roses scattered across her hotel room.

A spokesman for the school said: “A feud began with Donald Trump after she presented a critical documentary about him.

“She wondered just how serious his current campaign to be President is and said he will be very aware that it is adding zillions to the Trump brand.”

Ms Scott said she was “thrilled, totally thrilled” to share the evening with the girls as they collected their awards.

Ms Scott worked at the Sunday Post in Dundee before becoming a newsreader on the BBC Breakfast Time programme as part of its launch team.

She went on to tell the audience how prejudice against women still remains when it comes to age, pay and looks.

The school spokesman added that Ms Scott had been very proud to meet the late Princess Diana.

She said: “Recalling her friendship with Lady Diana, she told the pupils that each of them has the potential to change the world.

“She told the departing class to support one another but to reach for the stars and ‘when women succeed, we all succeed’.”

Ms Scott then presented GCSE and A-level certificates, the AQA Baccalaureate, EPQ and Grade VI to VIII music awards.

She also gave out various school prizes to girls from year seven to sixth form for their outstanding contribution to school life.