Jessie Wallace has landed in trouble with BBC bosses for using her Kat Slater quotes to promote a beauty brand.
The broadcasting giant received complaints from viewers who were confused to see her promoting a commercial product using some of Kat Slater’s most famous lines in EastEnders.
The London-based company posted videos on its Instagram page of Jessie promoting her services while using catchphrases and memorable lines from the show.
The posts have since been removed from the beauty company’s social media platform.
BBC bosses have warned Jessie that this contradicts what she agreed in her contract.
Jessie Wallace has landed in trouble with BBC bosses for using her Kat Slater quotes to promote a beauty brand.
The broadcasting giant received complaints from viewers who were confused to see her promoting a product using some of Kat Slater’s most famous lines in EastEnders.
He was warned that this could be considered an offence, it will not be tolerated and EastEnders executives read him the riot card.
Other stars of the show have also been angered that strict procedures are in place to ensure any business partnership or gift is approved and declared.
But using the show’s livelihood to promote a brand using character quotes has also upset many managers.
The intellectual property of the program and the ownership of its image and slogans are strongly protected and, being a publicly funded broadcaster, there are rules to ensure it is not commercialized.
A source told MailOnline: ‘Jessie doesn’t like being told what to do and has had posts removed.
“The general feeling is that she should know better after being on the show for so long.”
The rape is the latest in a series of controversies to blight the show and its cast, and comes just months after Wallace was photographed socializing with convicted murderer Kenneth Noye.
In November, the actress was in the same VIP box as Noye during an Elvis Presley tribute concert at London’s O2 Arena.
The rape is the latest in a series of controversies to blight the show and its cast, and comes after Wallace was photographed socializing with convicted road rage killer Kenneth Noye.
Wallace herself was arrested in 2022 after kneeing a police officer in the groin after a drunken night (pictured)
The EastEnders actress enjoyed lavish £200-a-head hospitality alongside other guests including the gangster, 76, who received a 25-year sentence for murdering Stephen Cameron, 21, on a slip road to the M25, in May 1996. before fleeing to Spain.
Noye also fatally stabbed undercover police officer John Fordman in 1985 only to be acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
Wallace herself was arrested in 2022 after kneeing a police officer in the groin following a drunken night, and the police officer later quit his job after feeling “unsupported and exposed” when she was let off with a warning.
The BBC was forced to take action in 2004 after former cast member Leslie Grantham was caught up in a dressing room sex scandal involving a webcam.
Grantham murdered a taxi driver in a robbery in 1966 and, during his 10-year prison sentence, turned to acting.
This led to him landing a role in the soap opera as Den Watts. The character abused his wife Angie and got his 16-year-old daughter’s best friend pregnant, aptly earning him the name ‘Dirty Den’.
He was apparently murdered by a hitman in 1989, before miraculously returning from the dead in 2003.
However, Den’s resurgence was short-lived when Grantham, who died in June 2018, aged 71, became embroiled in a sex scandal in a BBC dressing room, and the character was killed off for a second time shortly after. .
The BBC was forced to take action in 2004 after former cast member Leslie Grantham was caught up in a dressing room sex scandal involving a webcam.
His character, Den Watts, abused his wife Angie and impregnated his 16-year-old daughter’s best friend, aptly earning him the name ‘Dirty Den’.
He was apparently murdered by a hitman in 1989, before miraculously returning from the dead in 2003.
The actor apologized after the incident was revealed and said he was “wholeheartedly ashamed.”
Separately, show favorite Ricky Norwood was suspended from the soap for two months after pictures emerged of him apparently smoking a marijuana cigarette on Skype.
The 40-year-old, who played Arthur ‘Fatboy’ Chubb on the BBC show from 2010 to 2015 (before appearing in a flashback episode earlier this year), also allegedly performed a naked sex act during the video conversation.
He was suspended for two months and the London-born actor has since apologized for his actions.
Award-winning EastEnders actor Khali Best allegedly punched a taxi driver in the face after refusing to pay a £61 fare on his way home from a red carpet ceremony.
Best, who played mechanic Dexter Harman from 2013 to 2015, allegedly left Peter Callow, 63, with a bleeding black eye and £600 worth of damage.
Reprimanded by police for criminal damage and common assault, the actor was also suspended from his role in EastEnders for three months after the attack.
It came just months after he was named Best New Actor at the National Television Awards for his portrayal of the lovable Bad Boy Dexter.
Show favorite Ricky Norwood was suspended from the soap for two months after footage emerged of him apparently smoking a marijuana cigarette on Skype.
In 2007, BBC bosses suspended EastEnders star Robert Kazinsky after another sex scandal hit the soap.
He made his debut on the show in 2013 and was seen struggling to accept his father Sam coming back into his life again, only to discover that all he wanted was for his son to donate a kidney to him.
In 2007, BBC bosses suspended EastEnders star Robert Kazinsky after another sex scandal hit the soap.
Kazinsky, 40, who rose to fame as the show’s ladies’ man Sean Slater, was temporarily fired for allegedly bombarding a model with obscene text messages and photographs.
His arrival on the show as Stacey Slater’s troubled brother saw him reveal his torment because he felt responsible for his father’s death and had sexual relationships with numerous women.
He left the show the following year and has since appeared on True Blood.
Award-winning EastEnders actor Khali Best (left) allegedly punched a taxi driver in the face after refusing to pay a £61 fare on his way home from a red carpet ceremony.
Even Rob Turner, who had a brief appearance on the soap as an extra, was fired after students recognized their former teacher, who had previously been convicted of sexual offences, on the show.
In 2009, he was charged with 10 counts of sexual activity with a girl between the ages of 13 and 17 and ordered to sign the sex offenders register.
Turner, from Leigh-on-Sea, who was sacked as a teacher, is still on the register and is seen by the authorities every year.
He was removed from the show in 2013 after a complaint was made by a viewer who recognized him.
An EastEnders spokesperson said the teacher was booked through an agency and if they had known of his previous conviction he would not have been employed.