EastEnders star Jessie Wallace heads out shopping after she was pictured speaking to police

Jessie Wallace has been pictured for the first time after she was seen speaking to police officers near her London home two weeks ago.

The EastEnders star did some grocery shopping in her London neighbourhood on Monday, dressed down in sweats and a winter coat.

Wearing a face mask, the actress looked relaxed as she carried bags of food home to her North London house. 

Two weeks earlier, Jessie  appeared strained as she spoke to police near her London home alongside her daughter Tallulah, 16.

The EastEnders icon, 49, emerged in her slippers to speak to two police officers, who parked their squad car in the middle of a suburban street on 28 December. 

She was flanked by Tallulah, who she shares with her policeman ex Dave Morgan, as they engaged in the strained conversation with the law-enforcement officers. 

Jessie and her daughter were similarly-clad in comfortable garb as they spoke to and gesticulated at the police officers, who were pointing at a Range Rover. 

MailOnline has contacted police officials and Jessie’s representative for comment.  

Tallulah’s father Dave was a policeman when he was dating her mother over 10 years ago, before the couple split shortly after Jessie gave birth in 2004. 

The actress, who plays Kat Slater in EastEnders, previously blasted Met Police’s failure to investigate when Tallulah was mugged in north London in 2018. 

Jessie recalled how Tallulah was robbed by a gang in Muswell Hill when she was just 14. She detailed how police failed to investigate the crime after calling at the house in the early hours of the next morning, seven hours after the attack.

Jessie’s appearance comes after it was revealed her firm owed around £40,000 in unpaid tax as her company was ‘fully wound up’, official documents show.

The report, shared by Companies House last month, follows the aftermath of her firm Thatcher Promotions Limited being placed in voluntary liquidation in 2015.

According to the agency, Jessie’s company owed a total of £69,614 to the HMRC in unpaid corporation tax and VAT which liquidators have since been trying to regain.

A legal charge was later placed on the EastEnders star’s home to ensure she repaid the money, the Mirror reported. She returned a total of £60,000, but much of this went to cover legal fees.

Jessie ended up with enough to pay back around £27,000 of the £69,614 owed to HMRC, it was said. The report, published as Thatcher Promotions Limited was ‘fully wound up’, reportedly showed she had agreed to return £1,000 per month.

However, she reportedly did not meet these instalments and ‘continued chasing was required.’  Therefore, to secure the debt, I instructed solicitors to place a charge upon her property,’ the report said.

Jessie is listed as the director of Thatcher Promotions Limited on Companies House. The report concluded: ‘There are no other matters outstanding and the affairs of the company have been fully wound up.’