Overview
- The veteran broadcaster told Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 show that two men attacked her on separate occasions in London between 2000 and 2001.
- In the first incident she said she curled into a foetal position, was kicked in the head, and then let her handbag go.
- She said the second attack involved a man gripping her throat and threatening to break her fingers to take her rings.
- Rippon said the thieves took a watch, diamond stud earrings pulled out with force, and a ring from her aunt that held deep sentimental value.
- She added that bystanders often film instead of stepping in and warned that confronting robbers is risky because they may be bigger or armed.