{"id":544245,"date":"2026-04-22T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:34:07","slug":"jodie-marsh-granted-primate-licence-by-uttlesford-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544245\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Marsh granted primate licence by Uttlesford council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/licensing-process-for-keeping-primates\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2024, external<\/a> introduced a licensing regime to protect the welfare of primates kept in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council confirmed that Marsh&#8217;s primate licence was effective from 6 April, until 5 April 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the new regulations were &#8220;higher than zoo standards&#8221; and feared many small monkeys could be put down or abandoned if their owners were unable to get a new licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsh rose to fame in the ITV series Essex Wives in 2002 and became a regular face in the tabloid newspapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alpacas, emus and reptiles are among the animals she keeps at the private 3.5-acre (1.4-hectare) Fripps Farm, which she founded in 2020 and used OnlyFans to partly fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yj75gl1npo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates&#8217; Court<\/a> accused of assaulting a man at the farm in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She pleaded not guilty and is due to go on trial in May 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Animal Welfare (Primate Licences) (England) Regulations 2024, external introduced a licensing regime to protect the welfare of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-544245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544245","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=544245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}