The Apprentice star Luisa Zissman has been forced to defend herself after footage emerged of her in an alleged altercation with a cyclist outside her home
Luisa Zissman has found herself needing to clear the air after a video surfaced showing an apparent confrontation with a cyclist.
The businesswoman, who gained fame on The Apprentice, lives in a £7.5 million 10-bedroom home in Hertfordshire.
In footage uploaded onto YouTube, the reality TV personality, 37, is spotted donning a grey sports jumper and jogging bottoms as she gets into a heated exchange with a man.
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The clip captures Luisa outside telling the man: “Yeah I’m restricting your movement. I will f***** take your little bike.”
A male voice, not fully visible in the video, retorts: “Get off my bike,” just before the recording ends.
The series nine Apprentice runner-up then took to Instagram to level several accusations. She claimed that she was “shoved” and also said that her home is clearly marked as private, with two signs indicating this.
She said her security team had provided the police with CCTV footage from various angles.
Stunned by the allegations, she emphasized her actions were in defence of her property.
After accusing him of using a drone to film, she touched on broader issues of privacy and stated: “People don’t understand but being in the public eye having had death threats, acid attack threats, kidnapping threats, proper weird postal death threats with anti-semitic themes (even though I’m not Jewish) you are always at high alert.
“i have never done reality shows or magazine shoots of my house/ family because I value my privacy. “.