EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis

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Ex EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis admits racially aggravated ... (Liverpool Echo)

Now, the 30-year-old has admitted to the charges, pleading guilty at Basildon Crown Court on Tuesday, which was due to be the first day of her trial. She was ...

"When I was 17 and I got found for (award-winning 2009 film) Fish Tank I was doing the doughnuts with my uncle at the time at festivals, and things like that. She was bailed and is due to appear in court on Wednesday for sentencing. The actress had also been charged with two counts of assault by beating, which she denies.

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Ex-EastEnders actor Katie Jarvis shouted 'black lives don't matter' in ... (The Independent)

Actress, who played Hayley Slater on soap, changed pleas to guilty on what would have been first day of trial following incident in Southend-on-Sea.

Jarvis’s portrayal of the role won her a British Independent Film award. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. In an interview with Victoria Derbyshire in October that year, Jarvis said she had felt “degraded”, “really embarrassed” and “quite ashamed” by coverage in tabloid newspapers, which were accused of shaming her over her job. He said that Jarvis, of Rainham, east London, told officers “she was racially wrong and she was drunk”. Mr Shroff said Jarvis walked off, shouting “black lives don’t matter anyway”, “black c****” and “I’m a celebrity”. He told Basildon Crown Court Ms Antonio had said the chair was being used, then saw the 30-year-old defendant and told her she could not take the seat as it was needed by a fourth person in her party.

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Ex-EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis shouted 'black lives don't matter' (BBC News)

Katie Jarvis, who played Hayley Slater from 2018 to 2019, was arrested in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in July 2020. Basildon Crown Court heard the 30-year- ...

During a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Judge Samantha Leigh noted that Jarvis had no previous convictions as an adult and said that as she was in the "public eye you have been subjected to abuse on social media". Mr Harte said Jarvis "drinks very rarely" and on the day in question "had been in London - she had a number of successful interviews for films". He said she was "sorry to the people who heard her use the awful language on that day, and to Mr Groom the doorman, who was simply doing his job".

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Former EastEnders star Katie Jarvis sentenced after admitting racial ... (digitalspy.com)

Former EastEnders star Katie Jarvis has been sentenced to community service after admitting racial harassment in an incident from 2020.

Shortly after leaving EastEnders in 2019, Jarvis was the subject of tabloid reports about her working as a security guard at a discount supermarket. She also maintained she "did not physically assault anyone that day". After being told that the chair was needed, a fight broke out.

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Ex EastEnder Katie Jarvis' fall from grace: From awards' golden girl ... (Mirror.co.uk)

Ex-Eastenders star Katie Jarvis got her big break aged just 16 and she soon picked up awards for her acting talent, but today she was handed a community ...

Everything I do is for them." Jarvis was heaped with praise for her raw performance. The judge instructed one of these counts lie on the file, with a not guilty verdict recorded in respect of the second. However, she only stayed on the BBC soap for a year and was next in the headlines in October 2019, when it was revealed she was working as a security guard at a B&M store. She spoke of her determination to keep acting and she signed to an agent, going on to appear in a 10 minute silent film which aired on Sky as part of a collection. She was nominated for Best Actress at the European Film Awards, with saw her compete against Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet, and won the Pinewood Studios Best Performance Award at the Woman in Film and TV Awards.

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Ex-EastEnders star Katie Jarvis shouted 'black lives don't matter' in ... (ITV News)

Katie Jarvis, who played Hayley Slater in the BBC soap, admitted racially aggravated harassment and common assault following an incident in Essex in July ...

The actress had also been charged with two counts of assault by beating, which she denied. She tried to get a job in The Range to make ends meet, she went for a four-hour shift to try out.” "She hasn’t worked in films since. Mr Harte said Jarvis "drinks very rarely" and on the day in question "had been in London - she had a number of successful interviews for films". He said she was "sorry to the people who heard her use the awful language on that day, and to Mr Groom the doorman, who was simply doing his job". Katie Jarvis said she was "not a racist" in a statement outside Basildon Crown Court

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