Rebecca’s disgust as she is targeted by creepy fetish site

FAIR City star Rebecca Grimes has spoken of her disgust at learning how a fetish website has posted naked pictures of her on the slab in Ripper Street.

The Dubliner plays love cheat Haley Collins on the RTÉ soap but she cut her teeth on shows such as Ripper Street, the BBC show set in the London of Jack the Ripper.

In the episode made in 2012, her character ended up being killed, with her naked body laid out on a slab in a morgue.

Now Rebecca has learned that a website has harvested images from the episode and posted them online, allowing twisted internet viewers to rate them.

‘It’s so creepy,’ Rebecca told the Irish Mail on Sunday’s Magazine.

Rebecca was particularly shocked to learn of the website as she looks back on the role in Ripper Street as ‘a great part’.

‘I played a prostitute, Mary. I got killed in that episode and then I had to do a nudity scene. I didn’t mind because it wasn’t gratuitous. It was an autopsy and it wasn’t graphic.’

However, Rebecca, whose turn in Fair City as temptress Haley who turned the head of soap stalwart Paul made her a hit with viewers, learned from a friend of a website where users rate naked bodies.

‘Someone has dedicated their time to taking screen shots of anyone who has appeared naked on a TV show, a movie, dead or alive. And then they give them marks out of five stars and rates them. How weird is that?’

Rebecca, who stars in the new Damo & Ivor movie in cinemas now, has also featured in a website where, bizarrely, videos of celebrities wearing leather trousers are posted.

‘There is also leather man who takes pictures of any Irish women who wear leather trousers on TV. I’ve been on that. The videos go up within minutes of being aired.

‘The dedication that goes into that is mind boggling.’

And although she refuses to let the incident get her down, Rebecca observes that ‘the internet is a frightening place’.

Read the full interview in Magazine, free with today’s Irish Mail on Sunday