EastEnders' Kat is dating a policeman
EastEnders actress Jessie Wallace is dating the police officer who tried to shield her from photographers outside a court after she faced a drink-driving charge, it was revealed today.
Pc Dave Morgan, 28, was seen chatting to the star, who plays Kat Slater in the soap, before the hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court.
He sat next to her and her female companion inside the courthouse talking and laughing.
When her case finished, Wallace left the court building from a side entrance, escorted by Pc Morgan.
As press photographers surrounded her, the officer ushered her into a marked police car which he drove off.
Minutes later Wallace, real name Karen Wallace, could be seen around the corner from the court getting back into the taxi she had arrived in.
The couple have been spotted together in London where they dined at a Covent Garden restaurant on Sunday, according to The Sun.
Essex Police stressed that Pc Morgan, based in Chelmsford, was not involved in Wallace’s original case and is not currently working on it.
The 31-year-old appeared at the court on April 22 for a pre-trial hearing of her case.
It is alleged she was one-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit when police stopped her Mercedes in March.
Wallace, from Wanstead, east London, has denied the charge.
The trial is due to take place at Witham Magistrates’ Court on September 5.
