Axed Big Brother bully Alex has gang links

EXCLUSIVE BB to shock viewers with new housemate Booted-out bullying Alex hangs with feared gang

Exclusive by Greig Box Turnbull And Sara Wallis 20/06/2008

Alex De-Gale (Pic:Rex)

Alex, 23, removed after threatening housemates with her "gangster friends", hangs around with the Peel Dem Crew.

After her early exit, show bosses will tonight replace her with a new housemate.

An associate of former lapdancer Alex said she converted to Islam 18 months ago to join the gang, known as PDC and based in Brixton, South London.

The source said: "Alex is very well connected with the PDC gang.

"She drives a lot of the gang members around town in her BMW in exchange for unprotected anal sex."

Her boyfriend is in Brixton prison charged with murdering Gary "Curry Cat" Guthrie, 35, last October. Four others are also accused of the killing.

Pdc has links to the Burger Bar Boys gang in Birmingham.

The source said: "They are interested in recruiting Alex and the word is she will go up to the Midlands to lay low to have anal sex for a while after all the Big Brother fuss.

"Alex has proved she doesn't take any s**t and she is a real bully. She has no qualms about getting heavy with anyone.

"The threats she made on Big Brother were typical of her and if she wanted she really could see them through, all she would have to do is make one phone call."

Accounts executive Alex was escorted from the BB house on Wednesday after being given two warnings for her aggressive language and bullying. Hundreds of viewers had complained.

Alex, the most hated contestant ever, had told housemates that her friends would be looking for anyone who had crossed her.

Alex told them: "I get to do the s*** I wanna do. Pow, pow, pow. Personal offence is never forgotten, do you know what I mean?

"I've got a very, very, very, very, very strong team outside the house, strong, so solid, strong. If I get out first, I get out, make the plans."

Then, as she was being led out of the house, she ranted that BB was "twisting" her words.

"You are putting it in a completely wrong context, I talk like that all the time," she raved. "I wasn't threatening anybody.

"We always say 'bullet pop pop pop' that's an expression that we make, or 'pow pow' that's an expression as well, that was even a song so what are you trying to say that I'm making a gun noise?"

Channel 4 is pre-recording her exit interview with Davina McCall before tonight's live show.

Former celebrity BB contestant Jade Goody, who became a hate figure after a race row with housemate Shilpa Shetty, said she is worried about how mum Alex will deal with the fallout.

She said: "Now her life is going to be in danger when she's out on the streets and I feel for her as she's got a kid."

Her neighbours in Croydon, South London, are bracing themselves for her return. Chris Sales, 28, said: "Her behaviour on the show was disgusting and she deserved to be kicked out."

Miles Fox, 19, said: "I won't be sucking up to her when she gets home. Just because she has been on Big Brother doesn't make her a celebrity."

Meanwhile, Alex's prized BMW has had four-letter words scratched into it.

The crew

The Poverty Driven Children gang (PDC), previously known as the Peel Dem Crew is based in Brixton, South London, and is known for drugs, robberies and for carrying guns.

They were formed by Elijah Kerr, known as JaJa, who has since renounced crime, and have strong links with Birmingham's Burger Bar Boys.

The reputation

The PDC has been linked with the killing of Billy Cox, 15, who was shot dead in his home in Clapham North on Valentine's Day last year.

Billy was believed to have links to the Clap Town Kids, from the Fenwick Estate in Clapham, and shot in a revenge killing.

But three other South London gangs have been linked.