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Lily Allen make-up artist ‘ran down TV boss and drove off with him on bonnet’
10 November 2010
Teresa Fairminer, 59, was "absolutely possessed" as she ran down Dominic Moran when he tried to block her from leaving the car park, it is alleged.
Earlier, she had hurled abuse at him in his London office, a jury heard.
Fairminer, whose company did Camilla's hair and make-up for her wedding to Prince Charles, boasts clients including Cherie Blair, Helena Bonham Carter, Sadie Frost and Tilda Swinton.
She has given beauty tips on GMTV, This Morning and The Clothes Show. Today at Isleworth crown court she denied driving dangerously in Chiswick High Road on March 9, and causing criminal damage to Mr Moran's £600 Prada glasses.
Mr Moran, boss of community channel Chiswick Life TV, had emailed Fairminer to say he was "very disappointed" she pulled out of a make-up consultancy for his niece's wedding, in return for two free shows he made for her.
He told the jury: "I got a tirade of abuse on the phone. She said she was coming in to sort me out, her and her boyfriend.
"She stormed straight through reception and past my 12 employees. It was like listening to a docker. Everything was F' and C'.
"She was so out of control. She grabbed my glasses off my face... then threw them at a wall and broke them.
"She started pushing me and punching me. She was absolutely possessed, screaming and shouting. There was a crowd and she shouted, How can you work for this f***ing c**t?'
"When I told her the police were coming she high-tailed it out, calling me a f***head."
CCTV captured him being carried on the car into Chiswick High Road. "I realised, Oh my God she's not going to stop,'" said Mr Moran.
"I was carried on the bonnet into the bus lane and thought I was going to go under one. She could have killed me."
The court heard Fairminer, of Chiswick, told police she dropped the glasses gently — "I childishly just wanted him to grovel down and pick them up" — adding later: "The moral of this is don't stand in front of an angry woman in a car."
The trial continues.
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