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Alan Weston

Banter Queen's TikTok following, troubled past and Chelsey Harwood feud

Internet personality Elsa Frost used her "Banter Queen" social media presence to amass thousands of followers on the TikTok video sharing platform.

But the "banter" would eventually turn to feuding and lead to her being jailed after sending abusive messages and videos on social media to reality star Chelsey Harwood.

Elsa Frost - the person behind the TikTok account - posted a series of offensive videos about Ms Harwood, who rose to fame on reality show Desperate Scousewives - from January 1 and February 23 last year.

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The pair had been feuding for a while, and at the time were posting videos of each other on the app, where they would mock and criticise each other.

But things escalated as Frost, of Whitefield Close in Woodchurch, Wirral, went round to an address where Ms Harwood lived and threw paint at her door, a court heard.

Frost also used transphobic language towards Harwood - who is transgender - in a number of videos, which have now been deleted off the 39-year-old's page.

After sending abusive messages to Harwood and damaging her door, Frost was also in breach of a suspended sentence order, which was handed to her in 2019 for battery.

Frost's original TikTok account has been deleted, but her most recent account has more than 20,000 followers, while Ms Harwood's has close to 45,000.

She was set to face a trial on Thursday morning after originally denying the offences at an earlier appearance last year.

But she changed her plea and was sentenced in Bootle - with a judge handing her a total of 18 weeks in prison.

She also received an eight week jail term after pleading guilty to four counts of sending abusive communications - with the sentence being uplifted due to Frost's targeting of Harwood's gender identity.

The other eight weeks are from Frost's previous suspended sentence which magistrates activated upon her conviction in court.

She is also barred from contacting Ms Harwood or referring to her on social media for 12 months, and has to pay a total of £650 in compensation as well as the victim surcharge.

Reality star Chelsey rose to fame after making an appearance on This Is Liverpool in 2014.

She has also made other brief appearances on the TV, including in Hollyoaks to celebrate the soap's first gay pride festival in 2015, and also MTV's Celebrity Botched Bodies, where she revealed her botched genital surgery, which was then fixed by doctors on the show.

Frost has herself been a victim of crime, when in February 2020 she was attacked by thug Luke Browne at Mr Whites, a bar in Argyle Street, Birkenhead.

Shocking CCTV footage showed him attacking Elsa Frost, with whom he was said to have a "history" of animosity.

Prosecutors said the cocaine-fuelled yob grabbed Ms Frost by the hair and dragged her to the ground, after she first approached him during a heated argument.

He lifted the empty keg and threw it at the defenceless woman's head, leaving her concussed, with blurred vision and bruising to her head, arms, legs and back.

Browne, of Paterson Street, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to that attack and on that occasion he walked free from court after a judge said jailing him could impact on his cleaning business.

Browne, 31, has long plagued pubs, bars and nightclubs in Wirral with his violent and anti-social behaviour, was jailed for two years earlier this month for a separate incident in which he pulled a machete from his trousers when he was refused entry to a nightclub.

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