A video showing Big Brother contestant and glamour model Sallie Axl appearing to stab her ex with scissors has prompted a police response.
Sallie, real name Sally Pryzbeck, is shown in the video thrusting the scissors towards her former partner Gerard Williams while a toddler looks on.
In the video Ms Pryzbeck appears to have a cut on her wrists, and in posts to her Instagram page claimed the incident had taken place "a year ago."
Ms Pryzbeck also says she was at "breaking point" and that Mr Williams had "laughed at her" while she was self-harming.
Merseyside Police confirmed they are "making enquiries" into the video, although it is not believed the incident itself has been reported.
A spokesman said: "We have been made aware of footage posted on social media and are making enquiries into the matter."
The 32-year-old, from Wirral, appeared at Wirral Magistrates' Court in Birkenhead last month after being convicted of c laiming housing benefits while living in the Big Brother house .
Pryzbeck moved out of her apartment in Village Court, Dean Road in Wallasey on July 8 2013 to move into the Big Brother House.
She appeared on the show under the name of Sallie Axl and never moved back into the Village Court apartment when she left the programme. But she continued to be paid housing benefit.
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The Department for Work and Pensions carried out a check on her housing benefit claim and discovered that she hadn’t been living in the apartment since July 2013 and had moved into her mumr’s house in Wallasey when she left the show.
The investigation revealed that she’d failed to inform Wirral Borough Council of the change in her circumstances and, as a result, had been overpaid £12,349.82 in housing benefit.
Ms Pryzbeck told investigators that she’d claimed housing benefit because she’d separated from her partner and was a single parent living on a low income.
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She pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly failing to notify a change of circumstances, affecting entitlement to social security benefit at an earlier hearing.
She was ordered to repay £12,000 and complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Ms Pryzbeck has been contacted for comment.
