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Channel 5 has offered to pay 'substantial damages' to a woman suffering obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) who was left distressed after she featured in an episode of the TV show Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away.
Bailiffs told Natasha Lowe they were hauling away £6,000 worth of her goods because of debts allegedly owed by her then-boyfriend Daniel White to his ex-partner.
She was filmed returning to the flat in Woolwich, London, in 2016, to find two bailiffs and a three-man film crew. The episode was later broadcast to around six million viewers between 2016 and 2017, it is claimed.
Ms Lowe launched legal action against Channel 5 Broadcasting, Brinkworth Films Limited and Direct Collection Bailiffs Limited (DCBL) after the broadcast of episode in the programme's fourth series.
Ms Lowe accepts she did consent to being interviewed by the film crew, but said she did not believe it would be broadcast without her permission.
Natasha Lowe sued for invasion of privacy after her face was shown during a broadcast of Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away! Ms Lowe accepted giving an interview to film crews, but argues she expected to be consented before it was broadcast
She also sought an injunction preventing it being shown again. A hearing at the High Court in London on Thursday was told that the legal dispute had been resolved through a settlement.
William Bennett QC, representing Ms Lowe, told the court that Channel 5, the TV production company and the bailiffs firm had denied her case,
