A Bridgerton star has been captured confronting a thief as he brazenly tried to steal her phone.
Actress Genevieve Chenneour, who plays Clara Livingston in the Netflix series, was seen on CCTV sitting in a London café with her phone on a bench next to her when the incident occurred in February.
As she looked in the other direction, the thief came up behind her and grabbed the phone, trying to do so discreetly.
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But it wasn’t sneaky enough for the actress, who sensed the man’s presence and confronted him before swiftly snatching her phone back out of his hand.
As she did so, her friend grabbed him by the neck and pushed him downwards, with the two tussling on the floor.
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Chenneour then began to strike the would-be thief on the back with the very phone he tried to steal.
The offender was revealed to be 18-year-old Zacariah Boulares, who appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 29.
He pleaded guilty to theft and assaulting another customer.
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Before her Bridgerton role, where she played one of the debutantes who failed to impress the Queen in the latest series, Chenneour was a professional artistic swimmer who represented Team Great Britain in events all over the world, retiring in 2016.
Chenneour has continued her acting career with a role as Uulan in the 2025 film 1242: Gateway To The West.
She also appeared in the BBC mini-series Trigonometry and the HBO series Avenue 5, as well as many commercials and music videos.
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