Alicia Silverstone, star of 'Clueless' movie, shocks netizens by eating suspected poisonous fruit

Alicia Silverstone shows viewers a fruit that resembles an orange cherry tomato and asks for help to identify what it is. Photo: Screengrab from Alicia Silverstone/TikTok

American actress Alicia Silverstone sparked a flurry of shock and concern from netizens after she posted a video on TikTok of herself biting into what appeared to be a poisonous Jerusalem cherry.

The star of movie Clueless, the 1995 teenage cult classic, was in England when she chanced upon the fruit growing on a shrub on the street, according to her TikTok video posted on Aug 20.