Ronni Ancona Faces Soho Street Crime Drama

As new Albert Square resident Bea Pollard in , Ronni Ancona knocked a shoplifter to the floor and gave him a beating.

In a more unfortunate real-life episode in 's West End, the TV impressionist fell victim to a more competently executed act of theft.

I can reveal that the Bafta-winning creator of The Big Impression had her phone snatched after she left the Leicester Square premiere of , 's documentary about the iconic model she co-produced with Bridget Jones star .

'I was taking some investors and people involved in the film from the Vue Cinema to the afterparty in Soho,' she tells me, safely indoors at Goldsboro Books in Covent Garden, where her friend Kathy Lette launched her book, The Sisterhood Rules.

'The theft was by someone on foot, someone very deft of hand – I was absolutely devastated,' despairs Ronni, 57.

'I tracked my phone, it went everywhere and ended up in the Middle East.'

The Sketch Show star is, alas, far from the first celebrity to have their phone .

Last year, I reported that TV star and socialite Amanda Cronin had her phone stolen while out in Belgravia.

And the Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour was left with severe anxiety after she was assaulted while bravely fending off a thug who .

Ronni admits she, too, was left anxious by her brush with the criminal class.

'It's worrying because I've got lots of famous contacts on my phone, though their names are under code.

'Luckily, I got a young person to help me wipe the data.'

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