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Racism: Benefits Street's White Dee forced to move for sake of children

A woman mocked by the media after appearing in Benefits Street has been forced to move after her children were racially abused, her manager said yesterday. 

Deirdre Kelly, better known by her White Dee moniker from Channel 4’s Benefits Street, has been driven out of her home in the Birmingham road where the controversial documentary was filmed.

But her manager, Barry Tomes, said matters had recently come to a head when Ms Kelly’s children, who are mixed-race, were called “liquorice allsorts” in online abuse.

Mr Tomes added: “We’ve had people throw eggs at the house and there’s been a brick thrown on one occasion when she was here doing an interview.”

Ms Kelly, who shot to fame with her straight-talking style on the documentary, has been in work since March.

On Friday, she came fifth in Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother show.

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