Terrified Bond star reveals she was mugged and punched in face ‘by kid on bicycle' while talking to her mum on phone
The actress ran to a pub and borrowed a phone from a friend
'15 MINS OF HELL' Terrified Bond star reveals she was mugged and punched in face 'by kid on bicycle' while talking to her mum on phone
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ACTRESS Rosamund Pike has spoken of the '15 minutes' of hell when a mugger violently snatched her phone from her hand.
The James Bond star screamed in terror as she was punched in the face while talking to her mother, opera singer Caroline Friend.
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Rosamund Pike has spoken of the '15 minutes' of hell when a mugger violently snatched her phone from her hand
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The Bond star screamed in terror as she was punched in the face while talking to her mother, opera singer Caroline Friend
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Caroline was left fearing the worst until Rosamund, 46, was finally able to call her back after borrowing another phone.
Rosamund said: 'I was on the phone to my mother — on a mobile phone walking along a road — and I was mugged.
'The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead.'
Rosamund, whose new film Hallow Road has just hit cinemas, ran to a pub and borrowed a phone from a friend.
She said of her mum: 'For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes.'
The London-born actress, a mum of two, spoke out after the latest Met Police figures revealed 70,137 mobiles were stolen in the capital last year — 192 a day.
Most are sold on the black market or broken down for parts and shipped to China.
The market for stolen phones is now worth around £50million and last year's London total represents a huge leap on 2020, when 20,000 phones were reported stolen.
Other celebs mugged for phones include presenter Kym Marsh, who was left 'vulnerable and shaken', Strictly star Annabel Croft, who described last year's bike snatch as 'terrifying', and veteran entertainer Christopher Biggins.
Rosamund told Magic Radio about her ordeal. Talking previously about her snatched mobile, she said she was left with a bruise on the side of her face.
Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys psychological thriller 'Hallow Road'
She added it was 'from where some kid on a bicycle sped past me, punched me down the side of my cheek, and snatched my phone out of my hand. I'm angry'.
The actress, who starred with Pierce Brosnan in 2002's Die Another Day, also had her phone stolen at the Bafta awards in 2007.
The thief took her handbag, which also contained her purse.
Talking at the time about her bad luck, she said: 'I had a fire in my apartment . . . and I was burgled the year before, so I've got used to owning things for a little while and then tending to part with them.'
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