Matthew Wright’s stalker, 54, is given restraining order for harassing TV presenter’s family

Matthew Wright’s stalker, 54, has been given a restraining order for harassing the TV presenter’s family. 

Michelle Ranicar, 54, was handed the order at Wood Green Crown Court for stalking the presenter and his wife Amelia.

In October the distraught couple told how they were taunted over stillbirths when Amelia was pregnant with their daughter, Cassady, now 21 months, and said the ‘hysterical’ Ranicar even threatened to ‘snatch’ their child. 

Ranicar, 54, from Uxbridge, admitted one count of stalking to cause serious alarm or distress between November and May 2018 at Wood Green Crown Court on Tuesday, October 20.

She pursued the presenter and his wife Amelia, who had daughter Cassady in January 2019, including turning up at their home in Primrose Hill, north London.

A judge heard Ranicar suffers from learning difficulties and had been diagnosed with a ‘mild autism spectrum disorder’, as reported by the Mirror.

A regular audience member for The Wright Stuff, the 53-year-old described herself as a ‘superfan’ in an interview in 2016. 

In October the couple revealed Ranicar had told a pregnant Amelia: ‘Women your age more likely to have a stillbirth,’ after the couple struggled to conceive their daughter. 

Ranicar also turned up at their house and shouted through the letterbox that she wanted their baby.

‘It was the most horrendous time we’ve been through, scary and frightening,’ Amelia told Lorraine.

Matthew explained that he first met Ranicar when she was a regular member of the studio audience on his former show The Wright Stuff.

‘It built up over a period of time from the lady being in the audience of my TV show. I was friendly to everybody in the audience, but I was unaware that she started to develop notions that we had a relationship.’

More to follow.