Bridgerton star Genevieve Chenneour ‘assaulted’ near Oxford Circus months being attacked by phone thief
“I’d just got my confidence up and was looking at moving back.” She described the alleged attacker as “about 50 years old, 6ft 3in, Black, wearing a dark-coloured hat and black clothes”.
The actress added: “I couldn’t walk anywhere – he was just looking at me, and he just f***ing hit me. “It was a full grown man. I’m so shaken. I’ve got to try and prepare for this audition.”
She said it was “nerve-racking” to be in central London after she was assaulted by a phone thief in the area in February.
Ms Chenneour said she was left “traumatised” after she was threatened with being stabbed in a Joe in the Juice in upmarket Kensington.
Ms Chenneour was buying a coffee when the 18-year-old thief, Zachariah Boulares, snuck up behind her and grabbed the phone on February 8.
Boulares has a history of previous offences as a teenager.
It has since been revealed he threatened TV star Aled Jones with a machete as he stole his £17,000 Rolex watch.
At the time, he was 16 and could not be identified for legal reasons. He was sentenced to a two-year detention and training order for the attack on the Songs of Praise presenter in west London in July 2023.
