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Chelcee Grimes’ fleeced £18,000 after card cloned with thousands spent at sweet shop: ‘Was I robbed by a baby?’
Chelcee has not had much luck with her bank account this week (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Singer Chelcee Grimes is having a spot of bad luck after she was fleeced thousands when her card was cloned.
It’s a major annoyance and inconvenience when we have to chase back even a small amount from the bank. But try £18,000.
Artist and footballer Chelcee shared on social media her account was a lot lighter this morning, with thieves going on a spending spree…at a sweet shop. And spending several thousand pounds in the process.
That’s a lot of wine gums.
She wrote on Twitter: ‘My card got cloned and they took 18grand and spent 4grand in a sweet shop. Was I robbed by a baby? 😅’
Hoping it was a ‘pretty easy solve’, Chelcee responded to songwriter Cass Lowe, who shared their support: ‘I should get it back. I’m alive, all Is good!’
Asked by a follower whether her ‘jovial nature’ suggested the money was on its way back to her account, Chelcee insisted she was not going to cry at the situation.
She wrote: ‘I’m not going to cry. Currently on hold at the bank. Money comes and goes. I don’t value money more than my happiness.
‘Obviously it’s vile and disgusting people who do this. But I didn’t do anything wrong, so hoping the bank sort. But I’m alive and healthy. It’s just paper.’
The star is not the first celeb to have their account targeted, after Rylan Clark recently revealed would-be thieves attempted to hack into his.
He wrote earlier this month: ‘Someone’s tried to get into my account ain’t they’, and paired it with a gif of Kristen Wiig’s character in Bridesmaids declaring ‘Help me I’m poor’.
When it comes to Chelcee, there is hopefully some good news on the horizon with the songwriter, footballer and TV personality in the running to help revive the United Kingdom’s hopes at Eurovision.
It was announced last month that the BBC had teamed up with TaP Music, the management team behind Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey, to choose the UK’s entry for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest and hopefully avoid a third last-place finish in a row.
The artist and song have yet to be revealed, but Chelcee is being considered to either go to Turin to represent the UK, or to write the song that is sent there.
The 29-year-old is signed to TaP and already has Eurovision credentials, having joined Scott Mills as co-commentator for the Eurovision semi-finals on the BBC earlier this year.
A source previously told Metro.co.uk: ‘Chelcee is not just a talented artist in her own right, she’s also an extremely gifted songwriter, so it makes complete sense that bosses would want her to help with the UK’s Eurovision entry.
‘Chelcee has already written songs for the likes of Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue and The Saturdays and is really in demand right now, but if her schedule allowed and they can make it work, it would be a huge statement of intent for the UK’s entry to get her onboard.
‘The other massive plus for Chelcee is that she was part of the presenting team for Eurovision this year and knows the format perfectly.
‘It’s early days but Chelcee could be the dream signing to shake things up.’
Chelcee has written for huge artists including Dua and Kylie Minogue, and her songwriting credits include Dua’s Love Again, Dreams and Bad Together, Dua’s collaboration with BLACKPINK, Kiss and Make Up, Kylie’s Million Miles, Louisa Johnson’s So Good, The Saturdays’ Walking Through The Desert and Olly Murs’ Deeper.
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She has also released a number of songs herself, including Girls, Time To Talk and Tryna Not Fall In Love.
Football fans may also recognise the Scouser from her time with Merseyrail Ladies FC, Liverpool Ladies, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Tranmere Rovers and Fulham, and her work with BBC Sport and Sky Sports.
She also recently took part in Soccer Aid, as a player on the winning Rest of the World Team.
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