Cherry Healey has revealed that a man tried to force his way into her car in the middle of the day, as she admitted she is scared that threats to women’s safety are ‘getting worse’.
The TV presenter, 44, took to her Instagram to share details of the terrifying ordeal and ask her followers if they also felt there had been a rise in cat-calling and ‘aggressive approaches’.
Filming a video from her car after the incident, she explained she had been hesitant to share her story as she didn’t want to be ‘seen as a fear monger’.
However, Cherry explained she felt it was important to show others who had been victims of similar attacks that they are not alone or to blame.
The Inside The Factory host began: ‘I questioned whether or not to share this, but I often don’t, for rightly or wrongly.
‘But I think sometimes it’s important to share things like this so that if it happens to someone else, they don’t think they’re alone.’
Cherry Healey has revealed that a man tried to force his way into her car in the middle of the day, as she admitted she is scared that threats to women’s safety are ‘getting worse’
The TV presenter, 44, took to her Instagram to share details of the terrifying ordeal and ask her followers if they also felt there had been a rise in cat-calling and ‘aggressive approaches’
Filming a video from her car after the incident, she explained she had been hesitant to share her story but felt it was important to show others who had been victims of similar attacks that they are not alone or to blame
Detailing the scary incident, she recalled: ‘I just dropped my friend off at the tube station, I could see she’d gone out. She’d got to the side of the road. It was all fine.
‘A guy approached my car door, and luckily I’d just central locked the car really quickly, and he started to try and get into the car. I was like, “No go away!”‘
Cherry continued: ‘I’m sharing this particularly because it’s in the middle of the day, broad daylight. No I’m not wearing a provocative outfit, no I didn’t do anything to provoke the situation.
‘Sometimes you hear people saying, you know, what was she wearing? You know, was she out and about, had she had a few drinks? Was she walking through the park late at night?
‘If someone attacks you, it is not your fault. It’s nothing to do with you. I was in my car, middle of the day.’
Addressing her followers, she asked: ‘In fact, can I ask you, do you feel like it’s getting worse at the moment? If so, do you have any hypothesis as to why this is happening?
‘I feel like there’s more shouting, more cat calls, more attempts to kind of approach in an aggressive way.’
Cherry confessed she had become too scared to even go running at night, saying: ‘I would not go for a run after the sun went down for all of the money in the world right now.’
She was flooded with supportive messages from her fans and friends, with fellow TV presenter Kate Lawler commenting: ‘This is awful I’m so sorry lovely’
Cherry’s post comes after her Inside The Factory co-host Paddy McGuinness squashed the rumours that he and and Cherry had struck up a romance together (pictured)
She was flooded with supportive messages from her fans and friends, with fellow TV presenter Kate Lawler commenting: ‘This is awful I’m so sorry lovely’.
While many voiced their agreement with Cherry’s thoughts about feeling more unsafe than before, revealing their own terrifying experiences.
Cherry’s post comes after her Inside The Factory co-host Paddy McGuinness squashed the rumours that he and and Cherry had struck up a romance together.
The comedian, 51, sent his Instagram followers into a frenzy after he shared an album of snaps with Cherry on the BBC show and dubbed her a ‘diamond’.
Among the photos, Paddy, whose divorce with wife Christine was finalised in October last year, shared an insight of the two them enjoying a meal out and visiting a book shop.
While in the caption he gushed: ‘The whole crew on Inside The Factory have been a joy to work with. A small but perfectly formed team.
‘Also I’d never met @cherryhealey before but we hit it off straight away. Absolutely love working with her, she’s an absolute diamond!’
This sparked speculation from fans that the co-stars were dating, with many commenting that the pair ‘looked very comfortable together’.
The comedian, 51, sent his Instagram followers into a frenzy after he shared an album of snaps with Cherry on the BBC show and dubbed her a ‘diamond’
Among the photos, Paddy, whose divorce with wife Christine was finalised in October last year, shared an insight of the two them enjoying a meal out and visiting a book shop
Paddy made his Inside The Factory debut alongside Cherry last month during the Christmas special, (pictured) after Gregg Wallace stepped down from the show last year
Followers flocked to the comments to ask if they were an item, writing: ‘Is this a soft launch of the new Mrs?’; ‘Is this your new love? If so all the very best (you look very comfortable together)’; ‘I suspect your soulmate.’
But despite excitement from their fans, Paddy broke his silence to deny the rumours, replying: ‘Not at all. She’s just a great person.’
Paddy made his Inside The Factory debut alongside Cherry last month during the Christmas special, after Gregg Wallace stepped down from the show last year due to the allegations in regard to female factory workers at Nestle, where he was filming at the time.
Previously, Paddy gushed about working with co-host Cherry in an interview with The Sun.
Admitted he had been nervous at the start, he said: ‘That’s always the tricky bit, you hope you get on.
‘But I’m telling you now, me and Cherry do so much laughing. As soon as I met her, we had the biggest talk and we just got on like that.
‘This is testament to her – when I did my Children in Need challenge, she turned up in Kendal to surprise me – she even brought me up a lasagne she’d made!’
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