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Arabella never starred in EastEnders but did land a role
alongside actor Leslie Grantham in police drama 99-1 in 1995.
Leslie was famous at the time for playing Den Watts, one of
the original cast of the Albert Square soap.
Recalling a frightening experience she had with Grantham in
an interview with The Sun this week, Arabella, 65, said: “He suddenly appeared
in my trailer door. He didn’t knock, he just walked in and said something about
fancying me. It was pretty graphic and I thought, ‘Oh f**k’.”
She added: “It was frightening. I didn’t feel I could joke
my way out of it. I thought I was in Harvey Weinstein danger… Luckily somebody
quickly knocked on the door and said, ‘Oh Arabella, you’re needed.’
“I’m eternally grateful to that guy and looking back he did
it on purpose. I think they had eyes on Grantham all the time to make sure that
things were avoided.”
Grantham, who served 10 years in prison for the murder of a
taxi driver in 1966, would later become embroiled in a sex scandal in 2004 when
it was revealed he would expose himself to women in his BBC dressing room over
the internet by webcam.
The scandal eventually cost him his job with Den being
killed off memorably by Chrissie Watts less than a year later as producers
wrote the character out of the soap permanently, MyLondon reports.
Leslie Grantham died in 2018 aged 71 after suffering from
lung cancer.