A stalker has been banned from contacting the Doctor Who actress after harassing her between December last year and February
A man has been banned from contacting actress Billie Piper after admitting stalking her between for three months.
Philip Andrew Jerome admitted harassing the Doctor Who actress by sending letters through her post box and showing up at her home unannounced.
The 40-year-old was charged at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday after pleading guilty to the offence.
A magistrate told him that he ‘pursued a course of conduct which amounted to the stalking of Billie Piper and which you knew or ought to have known amounted to the harassment of her, in that you attended her home address and posted cards through her door, and sent letters by post to her home address’.
At the hearing, magistrates banned Jerome, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, from contacting the 35-year-old or going to the area where she lives in north London.
He was also ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service and to pay £170 in court costs and fees.
This is not the first time the stage and screen actress has experienced ‘stalker hell’.
In 2008, a female stalker threatened to ‘cut her head off’ and ‘burn her body to cinders’ during a barrage of horrifying phone calls.
The string of calls, made during the night to Ms Piper, came after 32-year-old Juliette Peters appeared on an episode of Channel Five’s Pepsi Chart show as a member of the audience.
She complained that Billie, who co-hosted the program, gave her a ‘sly, dirty look’ in the lead up to a commercial break.
Billie told the jury that she was left ‘terrified’ by the ordeal.
The Doctor Who actress outside the Radio 2 studios last month. The actress has experienced ‘stalker hell’ before in 2008 when she received death threats
However, the actress was not called to give evidence on Wednesday’s trial because the man accused pleaded guilty.
Ms Piper is set to be reprising her role in the acclaimed play Yerma, in which she plays the title role, on Broadway this year. The stage and screen stalwart won rave reviews for the role at the Young Vic last year.
At the Olivier awards last year. The stage and screen star has spoken out on social media about the ‘Metoo’ and ‘Time’s up’ movements
The actress has recently made headlines after speaking out on social media about the ‘Metoo’ and ‘Time’s up’ movements saying: ‘Let’s say I know a lot of headstrong actors and actresses wanting to get something who wouldn’t say they’re victims of this’.
The mother-of-two said she had reservations about the ‘whole sisterhood thing’, arguing that the ‘oversexed’ images posted by women on social media ‘doesn’t feel like feminism’ to her.
The actress, who shot to stardom when she was just 15, has been divorced twice. She was married to TV and radio presenter Chris Evans actor for three years before her marriage to actor Laurence Fox ended after they were granted a ‘quickie divorce’ after eight years.