Driving ban for actress Louisa Lytton

Driving ban for actress Louisa Lytton
Driving ban for actress Louisa Lytton (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

Former EastEnders star Louisa Lytton has vowed to 'move on' with her life after she was given a 14-month driving ban and fined for drink-driving. The 22-year-old, who also starred in The Bill, was fined £350 at City of Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday, and ordered to pay £85 costs. The driving ban will be reduced by three months if she completes the Secretary of State-approved course. "She is very remorseful about this, and will move on," her manager Darren Dixon later said. "She will live and learn from it. "She will take the course and get on with it, she wasn't hiding from it. "She only had one drink and was just over the limit, but she knows that the law is the law, she understands the severity of it, and that you can't drink and drive. Louisa first found fame in 2005 when she joined the cast of EastEnders as Ruby Allen, the spoilt daughter of gangster Johnny Allen (Billy Murray). She left the soap in November 2006 and went on to play PC Beth Green in The Bill from 2007-2009. She was also a contestant in the 2006 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.