I was a child star & still get trolled by people who ‘never liked’ me but I still watch myself back on Netflix
A FORMER child star has admitted she’s still trolled by people who watched her TV show, even though she was only seven when she was in it.
Danni Benattar played Alexa in the first series of hit BBC show Outnumbered – a friend of Ramona Marquez’s character Karen.
And despite the programme coming to an end back in 2016, Danni still finds herself receiving comments from disgruntled viewers.
She referred to one comment from someone who had messaged her saying: “Never liked Alexa.
“Her mum annoyed me.”
In a video on her TikTok page, Danni admitted the comment “hit me hard” and hurt her feelings.
“Alexa was a nice girl,” she hit back.
“Yes, her mum was very annoying, but she wasn’t a problem.
“She was a nice little girl!”
Danni, who is now 23, went on to admit she “genuinely forgets” that she was ever on the television.
Outnumbered was her first programme, and she starred in it when she was around seven or eight.
“I can just go and watch myself on Netflix,” she mused.
“Pretty cool!”
Danni added that she’s “been in quite a lot of programmes” – including Casualty and CBBC show Stepping Up.
She was even in EastEnders, playing Phil Mitchell’s daughter Louise when she was “really young”.
But she left the acting world behind at 18 because her “heart wasn’t in it anymore”.
However, it’s still something she’ll “tell the kids” about one day.
“But, yeah, I’m really, really lucky,” she said.
“And I feel like I do miss it, but it’s just so much work, and if your heart is not in it, then don’t do it.”
Concluding her video, Danni said: “But don’t say you hate Alexa, because Alexa was a lovely, lovely little girl!”
“Oh my God,” one person wrote in the comments section.
“I can’t believe you was Alexa from Outnumbered.
“Ignore the haters. I loved Karen and Alexa together.
“You’re beautiful!”
“I still watch outnumbered now and I personally think Alexa was very polite,” another added.
“You’ve just unlocked a bunch of memories I forgot I had by mentioning Stepping Up,” a third commented.
“Outnumbered is such a comfort show!” someone else praised.
“I quote Alexa all the time!!” another wrote.
As someone else added: “This is crazy!
“I’m currently re-watching the show and it’s so cool to see where you are now!”
