LIFE OF GRIME Ex-robber teaches lags to be next Stormzy
DENISE van Outen says she wishes her parents had spoken to her about sex – because it would have saved her from a bruised and battered heart.
The TV presenter is getting ready to have “the talk” with her nine-year-old daughter Betsey.
“I don’t think my parents ever sat me down and explained it all to me,” said the 46-year-old former Big Beakfast host.
“Everything I learned was pretty much from the school playground.
“I feel like I had a lot of rubbish relationships and probably wasn’t treated in the way that I would like to be treated because I was so naive about everything.
“I was allowing guys that I was meeting or dating to educate me, in their own way, for what they
A FORMER armed robber is teaching rap to jailbirds to help them go straight.
Prisons invite Maxwell D to run courses showing cons how to swap crime for grime.
The musician, real name Denzol Cameron, was once jailed after appearing on Crimewatch Most Wanted as a teenager.
His latest prison gig was at HMP The Mount, home to more than 100 lifers in Hertfordshire.
He taught Stormzy-style rapping and how to get into the industry to avoid re-offending.
A source said: “It not the usual prison education. It is a bit more bling.
But the talks go down a treat with lads behind bars.”
Yesterday Denzol, who rapped with the Pay As You
Go Cartel, told the Sunday
People: “I give a masterclass. It’s not just about being in front of the microphone, it’s the business side as well, production and how things work.”
He said of the wanted. I had my heart broken so many times.”
Denise, who had Betsey with her ex-husband, West End star Lee Mead, said: “I think the worst part is the doing-the-deed part – when you’ve got to explain that.
“I remember as a kid looking at my mum and dad very differently.” She is now in a relationship with trader Eddie Boxshall. convicts: “If there are any gems in there, any really talented people, we send them to a production unit and pitch them to labels.”
He has told how he was shot at after performing at a club in Birmingham.
Speaking about his past life, he once said: “I was a 16-year-old in a hostel on girls, weed, drink. Everything you could think of, I was doing it.
“One thing led to another. I started doing armed robberies with one of these guys I linked up with and then I was on Crimewatch at 18 just before I went to jail.”
Denzol said it was a shock seeing his face on the BBC show, adding: “It was like someone just ripped your heart out. I was shaking, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m on TV.’ My phone was ringing like crazy, friends were like, ‘You’re bait! You’re going to jail!’
“They came for me a year later after another string of robberies. They sentenced me to three years and I did a year and a half, because I wasn’t the person with the actual weapon, I was the one flying over the counters to collect the money.”