‘Bridgerton’ Star Genevieve Chenneour Speaks Out After Being Attacked in Public for Second Time This Year

Martin Holmes November 21, 2025, 10:06 am

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Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour revealed she was assaulted by a man in London just minutes before an audition.
This incident follows a previous attack earlier in the year, when Chenneour thwarted a phone theft in a Kensington coffee shop.
Chenneour shared that these repeated attacks have left her anxious and fearful in London, leading her to move in with her mother.

Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour has been the victim of another attack in London just months after a man attempted to steal her phone in a coffee store.

Chenneour, who played Clara Livingston in the hit Netflix period drama, shared an emotional video on her Instagram Stories on Thursday (November 20), revealing she was assaulted by a “full-grown adult” man while on her way to an audition.

“Guys, literally five minutes before my audition, I was walking around the corner at Oxford Circus and this guy just looks at me, and targets me, and f****** hits me,” she said through tears. “I’m like, against the wall, and I was right about to arrive for my audition. So I had to come in, and I’m trying to gather myself, but I’m so shaken.”

Chenneour noted the staff at the audition had given her a room above the audition space so she could gather herself. “So I’m just going to take, like, half an hour, I think. I keep on having panic attacks,” she added.

The actress wrote a description of the alleged attacker in the caption of her video, writing, “He was about 50 years old, 6’3″, Black, wearing dark coloured hat and black clothes.”

Earlier this year, Chenneour snapped into action when she caught a thief sliding her cell phone off the counter while she was waiting for her order at a coffee shop. In the footage obtained by The Daily Mail, Chenneour is seen snatching the phone back from the thief’s hand before a fight breaks out between the man and other customers.

The incident happened on February 8, 2025, and the thief later pleaded guilty on May 29. According to The Daily Mail, the 18-year-old man was jailed for 22 months in July for common assault and multiple counts of theft.

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“I was left with a concussion just before the Screen Actors Guild Awards and since then, I’ve felt constantly on edge,” Chenneour previously said, per The Daily Mail. She later left London to move in with her mother and stays in hotels when visiting the city for work.

In her Instagram video, an emotional Chenneour said, “Obviously I had that phone attack happen to me, and it’s like, so nerve-racking for me being out in central London now. And I’d just got my confidence up and was looking at moving back.”

“I couldn’t walk anywhere. He was just looking at me and f****** hit me. I can feel where he hit me,” she said of the attack while rubbing her arm. “It’s like, just leave me alone.”