Anna Richardson attends the launch party of Style for Stroke by Nick Ede at No 5 Cavendish Square on October 2, 2012 in London, England.
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Anna Richardson has issued a stark warning about sharing sexually explicit images after she posted nude pictures of herself online for a documentary about revenge porn.
'Revenge porn' involves a former partner uploading explicit images or videos on to host websites in order to humiliate their victim, who is usually female. Some victims have also had personal information, contact details and links to their social media profiles uploaded with pictures or videos.
The images are viewed thousands of times and shared across various websites and platforms, compounding the victim’s distress. New laws introduced by the Government now makes it a criminal offence in the UK to upload the pictures - but hosting them on a site is not illegal, making it harder to have photos removed.
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Controversial Channel 4 programmes
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Controversial Channel 4 programmes
1/10 Benefits Street
The first series of Benefits Street made a star of James Turner Street resident White Dee (pictured). Last year, the programme caused as much controversy as Top Gear, being criticised for benefiting the ratings rather than the people who are in it.
Channel 4
2/10 The Undateables
It first aired in 2012, featuring disabled singletons on a quest for love. Critics attacked the marketing of the reality TV show as "sensationalist", "harmful" and akin to exploitative Victorian "freak shows", but Channel 4 argued that the campaign and title was a reflection of society's own prejudices.
Channel 4
3/10 Dogging Tales
The show was the most watched programme by 16-34 year olds, causing reactions on the disturbing range of animal masks worn by the “doggers�, and on the statistic reported on the show that 70 per cent of lorry drivers go dogging.
Channel 4
4/10 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings
The show has been a ratings winner for Channel 4, but it was criticised by the Traveller community, saying it fuels discrimination and portrays their lives inaccurately.
5/10 The Paedophile Hunter
The documentary shone a light into the murky world of internet vigilantism. In it, online vigilante Stinson Hunter and his associates lure and trap sexual predators by posing as underage children online, and then pass evidence on to the police and post it online.
Channel 4
6/10 Sex Box
In the show couples have sex in a soundproofed box and then discuss it with a panel of experts afterwards. Our reviewer called it a titillation that masquerades as serious television.
7/10 Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial
Hosted by Jon Snow, the programme showed people trying Ecstasy live on air. Actor and comedian Keith Allen volunteered to help the live study on the effect of the drug.
8/10 Angry White and Proud
The documentary showed some of the less salubrious sides of far right groups and activities in this country, showing evidence that whilst it is true that actual street base support has dropped, this does not take into account how the narratives of these extreme groups has pervaded and spread across the internet.
Channel 4
9/10 Ukip: The First 100 Days
The documentary received over 6,500 complaints after it imagined former Ukip leader Nigel Farage as Prime Minister.
10/10 Married at First Sight
Documentary programme featured three couples, two of whom decided to get married without having previously met.
Cameras followed them through their wedding night, honeymoon and their first few weeks of living together.
Channel 4
1/10 Benefits Street
The first series of Benefits Street made a star of James Turner Street resident White Dee (pictured). Last year, the programme caused as much controversy as Top Gear, being criticised for benefiting the ratings rather than the people who are in it.
Channel 4
2/10 The Undateables
It first aired in 2012, featuring disabled singletons on a quest for love. Critics attacked the marketing of the reality TV show as "sensationalist", "harmful" and akin to exploitative Victorian "freak shows", but Channel 4 argued that the campaign and title was a reflection of society's own prejudices.
Channel 4
3/10 Dogging Tales
The show was the most watched programme by 16-34 year olds, causing reactions on the disturbing range of animal masks worn by the “doggers�, and on the statistic reported on the show that 70 per cent of lorry drivers go dogging.
Channel 4
4/10 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings
The show has been a ratings winner for Channel 4, but it was criticised by the Traveller community, saying it fuels discrimination and portrays their lives inaccurately.
5/10 The Paedophile Hunter
The documentary shone a light into the murky world of internet vigilantism. In it, online vigilante Stinson Hunter and his associates lure and trap sexual predators by posing as underage children online, and then pass evidence on to the police and post it online.
Channel 4
6/10 Sex Box
In the show couples have sex in a soundproofed box and then discuss it with a panel of experts afterwards. Our reviewer called it a titillation that masquerades as serious television.
7/10 Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial
Hosted by Jon Snow, the programme showed people trying Ecstasy live on air. Actor and comedian Keith Allen volunteered to help the live study on the effect of the drug.
8/10 Angry White and Proud
The documentary showed some of the less salubrious sides of far right groups and activities in this country, showing evidence that whilst it is true that actual street base support has dropped, this does not take into account how the narratives of these extreme groups has pervaded and spread across the internet.
Channel 4
9/10 Ukip: The First 100 Days
The documentary received over 6,500 complaints after it imagined former Ukip leader Nigel Farage as Prime Minister.
10/10 Married at First Sight
Documentary programme featured three couples, two of whom decided to get married without having previously met.
Cameras followed them through their wedding night, honeymoon and their first few weeks of living together.
Channel 4
Within 48 hours of uploading an image onto a revenge porn website, it had been viewed over 40,000 times and received a number of sexually violent comments. Even more worryingly, she was also contacted by two men.
Appearing on ITV's This Morning to discuss her documentary, she said: "I think it's everybody's right to have naked pictures and enjoy sexuality. But if you do have those pictures, remember you are hackable.
"Once you share your photos, you have lost control of them."
Revenge Porn will air on Channel 4 at 10pm tonight.
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