SHE kept the music blasting as a one-time host of Top of The Pops and partied hard this summer as a contestant on the smash-hit reality TV show Celebrity Love Island.
But livewire television presenter Jayne Middlemiss says enough is enough when it comes to a pub near her Hampstead home.
Ms Middlemiss, 34, has urged councillors to spike a new application by Mojama, a swish cocktail bar in Heath Street, to stay open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays and 2am on Thursdays.
The application is the latest late licence bid to spark fierce objections from residents in Hampstead and follows recent disputes over the opening hours of other pubs in the area.
In a hand-written letter to the council, Ms Middlemiss said: “I strongly feel this should not happen. I am constantly disturbed by the noise level from this bar, especially at weekends. I can’t imagine any residents would get any sleep or peace if this nuisance of a bar was open till 3am.”
Ms Middlemiss, who lives in a £500,000 flat in Heath Street, added: “I thought Hampstead was a conservation area. That bars like this are trying to turn themselves into nightclubs goes completely against this. I just don’t think it is fair to residents. We live here and pay our council tax. We don’t want to live in a nightclub.”
The TV presenter’s letter is among a flood of objections received at the Town Hall.
One protester said the council needed to prevent Hampstead becoming a “mini-Camden”.
Martin Colloms, a chartered sound engineer who lives close to the pub, said the problem could be the beat-heavy dance music favoured by the bar.
He added: “There is a generation gap between older popular music, which tended to be for the purposes of light dancing and armchair enjoyment, and modern club, rave, heavy metal, garage and rap music, which is played very much louder to achieve whole body involvement on the part of the participants.
“It is almost certain hundreds of residents will suffer substantially increased noise nuisance in their quiet rest hours if the significant extension in drinking and dance music entertainment hours of opening for Mojama are permitted.”
Other residents have complained that Mojama’s customers vomit and urinate in the streets after leaving the bar.
A Mojama statement said: “Where appropriate, prominent, clear and legible notices shall be displayed at all exits requesting the public respect the needs of residents and to leave the premises and the area quietly. Noise or vibration shall not emanate from the premises so as to cause a nuisance to nearby properties.”
A decision on the longer hours bid will be made on Monday morning.