TV presenter Jodie Marsh has been praised by Jaywick residents for making a fair documentary – despite her film crew being pelted with coins and eggs.

Jodie and her crew were verbally abused as they tried to film in Jaywick’s Brooklands estate last month.

They were targeted in the Tamarisk Way car park as they filmed a documentary for Sky channel TLC.

Fed up residents in Brooklands, which is listed as the most deprived area in the country, have been calling for TV crews to leave the area alone after documentaries, such as Channel 5’s Benefits Britain earlier this year.

Jodie had to be whisked away from Brooklands as her minders did not think she was safe.

The crew scrapped its plans to tour Brooklands on foot and instead drove around in a car before interviewing a resident on the “posh” Tudor estate.

Despite her reception, Jodie was sympathetic to the plight of many of those living on benefits and highlighted the regeneration schemes taking place in the deprived ward, as well as visiting a food bank in Colchester.

She said: “I think the positive to come from all the negative that Jaywick has had is that now things are being done, like the roads are being done and new houses are being built.

“It might not have enjoyed this publicity, it has been quite bad, but the good to come from it is Jaywick is getting sorted.”

Tendring Council’s communications manager Nigel Brown accompanied Jodie around the estate.

He said: “Some of the residents have been annoyed about some of the TV coverage they got recently.

“For the first time there is optimism, but we have got to get over the anger about the way they are being portrayed.

All they are asking for is a bit of fairness, a bit of balance.”

Ian Gunn, who launched a petition against more documentaries being made in Jaywick, said: “It was a fair documentary by Jodie Marsh.

"She showed the Tudor Estate, which was good because no film crews want to show that.

“But we are saying we don’t want anymore film crews down here.”