Matthew Wright has claimed a female fan threatened to take his and his wife Amelia’s newborn baby during a six-month stalking ordeal.
Michelle Ranicar, 54, from Uxbridge in Middlesex, pled guilty to one count of stalking to cause serious alarm or distress at Wood Green Crown Court in London last Tuesday.
TV presenter Wright, 55, and his partner told on ITV’s Lorraine how Ranicar had often been in the audience of his Channel 5 show The Wright Stuff.
After being banned from the studio, Ranicar approached Amelia while she was pregnant and allegedly told her she was “more likely to have a stillbirth” due to her age.
After Wright departed The Wright Stuff in 2018 after 18 years, Ranicar continued to follow the couple.
This culminated in a six-month period Amelia said left her “emotionally scarred”.
The couple, who married in 2010, became parents to daughter Cassady in January last year and Amelia said Ranicar had appeared at their home following the birth.
She said: “She was trying to push her hand through the letter box saying, ‘I want the baby, I want the baby. Give me the baby’.
Can you imagine what that would do to a new mum?”
Matthew said: “Amelia wouldn’t go out of the house and when we did go out of the house together, she would be looking down every side street in every doorway expecting someone to leap out.”
Amelia said: “I didn’t want to go out of the house because she said she wanted to snatch the baby.
"You can imagine how you just live in fear and terror and you don’t want to go out.
“The last time she came round Matthew was there but she got more hysterical and it got more serious.
“She said, ‘I want the baby, I want to take care of the baby. Give me the baby’.
"That’s when it got to a different level.”
