{"id":158986,"date":"2025-09-25T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:08:10","slug":"emma-watson-makes-first-comments-about-being-banned-from-driving-by-uk-court-emma-watson-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158986\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson Makes First Comments About Being Banned From Driving by UK Court | Emma Watson | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/emma-watson\/\" title=\"Emma Watson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Watson<\/a> is breaking her silence on being banned from driving in the UK for six months.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know the story, the 35-year-old Harry Potter star was reportedly caught going 38mph in a 30mph zone while driving last year on July 31, 2024 in Oxford, England. At the time, Emma already had 9 points on her license. As a result, she was made to pay a fine of $1,396, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/16\/emma-watson-banned-from-driving-for-6-months-after-speeding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">given a six month ban on driving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she\u2019s making her first comments about the news, which made International headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recently started riding a bicycle. Yes, I started riding a bicycle before my driving ban, but now it\u2019s particularly fortuitous that I also ride a bicycle for that reason,\u201d Emma said on an episode of the \u201cOn Purpose with Jay Shetty\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2caQ4j9oohE\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2caQ4j9oohE&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About how viral it went, Emma said, \u201cI was getting phone calls. Like, it\u2019s on the BBC, it was on international, worldwide news! I was like, \u2018My shame\u2026.\u2019 It is everywhere.\u201d She added that many people reached out to her to say it had happened to them as well.<\/p>\n<p>She then further explained why she might not have been as confident a driver, explaining, \u201cWhen you worked on movies \u2014 I don\u2019t know if people know this \u2014 they literally will not insure you to drive yourself to work. I\u2019ve asked so many times. You have to be driven. It\u2019s not a choice. Especially because they need you there down to the minute, basically, depending on what they have going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I went from basically only driving myself on weekends or during holiday to when I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/07\/09\/emma-watson-new-relationship-confirmed-spotted-showing-pda-with-oxford-classmate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">became a student<\/a>, driving myself all the time. I did not have the experience or skills, clearly, which I now will and do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Watson is breaking her silence on being banned from driving in the UK for six months. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-158986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}