Baby Reindeer stars reunite on the red carpet – after ‘real life Martha’ is exposed and speaks out
The woman the show is allegedly based on is threatening to sue creator Richard Gadd
BABY Reindeer stars Jessica Gunning and Richard Gadd reunited last night at a screening in London.
The Netflix phenomenon’s two lead characters attended the Love Lies Bleeding screening at the Prince Charles Cinema.
Jessica beamed brightly as the pair each put an arm around the other for photographs.
Richard smiled too in a smart casual jacket, jeans and trainers.
Love Lies Bleeding stars Kristen Stewart as a reclusive gym manager who falls for a Vegas-bound bodybuilder from a criminal family called Jackie [Katy M. O’Brian].
Breakout stars Jessica and Richard’s outing comes after the “real” Baby Reindeer stalker took a swipe at the show’s creator.
Fiona Harvey – who Jessica’s unhinged character Martha is allegedly based on – has flooded social media with a sea of scathing posts against comic Richard.
The gritty black comedy was inspired by an ordeal suffered by Richard, 34, who changed his name for the Netflix smash.
The harrowing tale follows barman Donny Dunn as his life falls apart at the hands of an obsessive stalker after he offers her a cup of tea in a London bar.
The deranged Baby Reindeer maniac bombarded the comic with more than 41,000 emails, 744 tweets, 100 pages of letters and 350 hours of voicemails over a four-year reign of terror.
And in a fresh series of social media messages Harvey – who denies stalking Gadd in real life – claimed the show’s creator wanted to sleep with her.
She wrote online: “My boyfriend thinks Gadds is angry that he never freckin got me in the bedsheets.
“His main fantasy was to f*** me. He thinks that’s what eats him up the most.”
Richard claimed he went to great lengths to conceal the identity of the woman who stalked him in real life and begged fans not to search for her.
However, the alleged “real life Martha” has been unmasked as Harvey – a Scots woman who moved to London.
The law graduate’s social media page is swimming with scathing comments towards Richard, who she accuses of misrepresenting her.
In one she blasted: “Gadd is no Brad Pitt.”
Elsewhere, she hit out: “There’s a fat actress that’s supposed to be me.”
Fiona, 58, is from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire and says she met Richard years ago when he was a bartender at The Hawley Arms in London’s Camden.
REINDEER STALKER POLITICIAN CLAIMS
A WOMAN claimed to be the real-life stalker from Netflix smash Baby Reindeer was previously accused of harassing two of Scotland’s leading politicians.
Fiona Harvey, 58, came into contact with the late Glasgow MP Jimmy Wray, who died aged 78 in 2013, and his solicitor wife Laura, 62, when she was a former Labour Party member.
Mrs Wray told how she gave Aberdeen Uni law graduate Ms Harvey a trainee role at legal firm McPhail Lawrence Partnership in 1997.
But she sacked her just days later because she was “completely incapable of behaving herself”.
Mrs Wray was then allegedly harassed by Ms Harvey — who was known at the time as Fiona Muir.
She claimed she was subjected to disturbing phone calls and an uninvited visit at her home — and was told: “I’m going to get you.”
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She admits to befriending him and claims she gifted him a pair of “tartan M&S pants” to congratulate him on one of his comedy shows.
But she denies she stalked him and told the Scottish Sun: “I have a claim against Netflix as this is being billed as part of a true story.
“I’m a highly competent lawyer. I’d have to do it myself. I’m very good.
“I have a photographic memory and can memorise huge files. I was top in my school at everything.”
As for how she discovered the show, she said she first became aware of it when Richard took it to Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a one-man show.
She said: “He’s come up with this character called Martha and he has put me right in the frame.
“This is a programme for the 20-somethings. The people with no lives, no jobs, whatever. I don’t want to be a celebrity.”
