Davinia Taylor has launched a furious attack at train staff in London, accusing them of not allowing her to board despite arriving three minutes before its departure.
The former Hollyoaks actor and health guru claimed workers were “sniggering” at her after saying she was too late to board her train from Euston to Birmingham.
Taylor, 48, said she “sprinted” through the station with large suitcases and was told she needed to have arrived earlier and would have to buy a new ticket to a later train.
In a since-deleted video on Instagram, the former Primrose Hill socialite said: “I f*****g hate little s***houses like this.
“I was there, the train was there, I was three minutes, I sprinted through Euston. I said, ‘Look I'm a woman on her own. I bought the ticket. They'd not even locked the gates.’ He said, ‘Sorry love, you can't go, you've gotta be longer before.’”
“As I said to him, ‘Imagine if that was your mum,’” she added, before imitating the worker shrugging their shoulders.
The mother-of-four went on: “That's the f*****g idiots you're dealing with. Empty it was, empty.
“So now I've gotta buy a new ticket. I've been working my a**e off, and these little nasty, nasty little f*****g clipboards.
“I said, ‘Do you know what? You're not even human.’ The platform was empty. Empty, and they both sniggered, sniggered, what the f**k is wrong with people, when they've got a f*****g uniform on.
“I hope their mothers are embarrassed. Horrible, horrible brats.”
The video featured text that said: “Clipboard computer says no, jobsworth, not my problem. K**bheads.
“Why are SOME of these people in the travel business set on default to be unhelpful?
“Btw I travel Avanti loads and have met absolute angels... but these two. Yuk.”
Taylor captioned the post: “My lovely train manager on the next train told me to report them and this sort of attitude and behaviour has to stop.
“As a woman travelling alone - my point being I had massive cases from work and they could see me struggling and just smirked - it's all very passive aggressive behaviour that some of them seems to relish in.
“I was there in time they just blocked me. Anyone else been faced with the unhelpful default type person when you're travelling??”
While many fans sympathised with her story, one user commented: “3 minutes what? Late? Late is late, the entitlement and support for it in the comments is insaaane.”
Taylor replied: “Train left at 16:29 I was at the top of the train at 16:25 with my QR code in the phone by the time he said that there's nothing he can do get the next one to Birmingham it was 16:26.
“I was asking him to radio the lady who was talking to the conductor next to the train and he said no can't do that. Then after another min he said I have to be there three min before. And sniggered.”
Platforms at London Euston close two minutes before the train departs, according to the Avanti West Coast website.
The Standard has contacted a representative for Avanti West Coast for comment.
In the past few years, Taylor has become a “biohacking” wellness guru, implementing several lifestyle changes to increase her longevity.
The former alcoholic told The Standard she has gone teetotal, takes dawn ice baths and runs in Hyde Park and has adopted daily biohacking, a practice that involves making small changes to your lifestyle to “boost” your biology for improved health.
“It’s like a line of cocaine,” she said of the high she now chases after years spent battling alcoholism and overeating.
The soap opera star was a regular in the tabloids back in the noughties, known for going out with Kate Moss and Sadie Frost and famously buying Noel Gallagher‘s Supernova Heights house in 2005.
But like Moss and Frost and many of that notorious set, Taylor has cleaned up. Today, her million or so Instagram followers are treated to daily updates on her workouts, wellness practice (she’s tried everything from psychedelics to South American healing rituals, using frog sebum and facing "horrific" burns) as well as biohacking tips.
"There's so much doom and gloom around [health], [people saying] 'this is out of your control, that is out of your control' – it's bloody NOT out of your control,” she said.
“There are so many little hacks you can do just to make yourself feel mentally better. We can hack into our mental health so that we wake up every morning going: 'Yeah. Good.'"
