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TV presenter and model Alexa Chung told how she clung on to her phone after being targeted by a thief in east London .

Chung was desperate not to let the criminal snatch her handset because she was involved in a gripping conversation at the time.

Speaking to podcast host Isaac Hindin-Miller, the 42-year-old said: “Someone tried to nick one off me the other day, but I refused to let them have it.

“I was in the middle of a group chat and it was really fascinating.

“I literally tight-gripped it and was like, ‘F*** you!”

Chung and Holly Willoughby have both modelled fo

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