Ten Famous Shoplifters, With Jade Goody And Steven Gerrard

Tracy Shaw

Tracy Shaw, the Coronation Street actress, was a shoplifter. She stole strawberries and confessed that she had a compulsion to steal that was connected to her anorexia. Lena Zavaroni was charged with stealing jelly the year she died from a slimming disease; her thinking was, bizarrely: ‘If I steal the food it doesn’t count as eating it.’

Says she:

“It’s not that you go out to shoplift, it’s just something that happens.”