Hot on the heels of the terrifying incident in which she was mugged and her engagement ring stolen, Strictly Come Dancing star Rachel Stevens has had another frightening brush with crime.

Last night, Rachel and her family were enjoying a meal at the Harry Morgan restaurant in St John’s Wood, London, when a masked gunman apparently burst in and “fired a volley of shots” according to today’s Sun.

The paper says that Rachel’s party and other diners – including the BBC’s chief economic correspondent Hugh Pym and his family – threw themselves to the floor as the gunman fired at a man he’d chased into the restaurant.

The man was apparently later taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg and another man was treated for wounds caused by broken glass. The gunman escaped and was being sought by police last night.

Rachel’s spokeswoman told the paper, “Rachel and her family were dining when the shooting happened. It was very frightening.”

Hugh Pym also said, “I immediately went to ground and pulled my 15-year-old son under the table. Everyone was shouting, ‘Stay down, stay down.’

“People were pretty shaken up and were wailing in shock.”

An eye-witness added, “We saw two men running in. We heard a volley of shots, followed by screaming.”

Rachel and her fiancé Alex Bourne are due to be married in France in August but I think if I was her, I’d be staying in from now until the big day!