The director of a child casting agency had borrowed £45,000 from the business when it went bust, records published this week show.
Happy House Productions Limited told clients it was going into liquidation in the summer, shortly after Equity, the actors’ union, warned members not to engage with or accept new work from it.
Documents published on Companies House this week show that when it went bust, it owed more than £67,000 to the taxman, £4,400 to its four employees and more than £130,000 to other creditors.
According to a statement of affairs produced by Molly Monks at Parker Walsh Corporate Recovery and signed by Happy House’s sole director Edward Lightfoot, 44, it only had £475 in the bank.
The statement also…