Big Brother's Alex Faces Police Probe Over Gangster Threats

Big Brother bully Alex De-Gale is facing a police probe over her gangster gun threats after suggesting fellow housemates could be shot.

De-Gale, who was removed from the house on Wednesday after she intimidated her show rivals, hit out at Channel 4 bosses for falsely depicting her as "violent and aggressive".

She insisted her threat to order her gangster friends to gun down those who had nominated her was just "teasing" and that "clever editing" had made it look worse. And Alex said being a mother meant she would never harm anyone.

But police have said they may speak to her after she told Darnell Swallow on Tuesday, "I’m talking about my gangster friends. They got some instructions to follow out.

"I get to do the sh** I wanna do. Pow, pow, pow!"

But in her first interview since getting chucked out the house, Alex claims Big Brother had bullied her.

She fumed, "Intimidating and threatening? Me? I’m someone's mum.

"First it was the situation with Steph, then it was the situation with Mohamed and now this. They were trying to make me out to be some kind of violent person that I'm not."

Accounts executive Alex said show bosses had edited scenes in a deliberate effort to make her Big Brother's most hated housemate ever.

"They put it in a completely wrong context," she said. "I talk like that all the time. So does Darnell. I was talking to Darnell, like I get to see your friends, your family.

"I've already told Darnell I'll be his biggest support camp. I wasn't threatening anybody, they can put it into whatever context they want. It's ridiculous."

Alex added that all her friends and family in Croydon, south London, would know she would not hurt anyone and that her comments were just a figure of speech.

"That's how I talk," she explained. "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 why were they trying to say that I'm making a gun noise?"

But she warned, "I've got no problems with making genuine threats."

Hertfordshire Police said last night they would interview Alex if they received complaints about her, just as they investigated the racist taunts against Shilpa Shetty in last year's Celebrity Big Brother.

But a force insider said, "A series of in-depth checks were carried out on Alex before she went in the house. It is believed she does not have the connections to carry out such a threat. But of course, a threat to kill is never taken lightly."

Meanwhile, show bosses denied suggestions the screening process to find potential housemates is flawed.

Angela Jain, Head of E4 and Big Brother, said, "It's hard to accurately predict how an individual will respond to other housemates either in a one-to-one or in any situation, let alone within the pressure cooker environment of the Big Brother house.

"However, Big Brother constantly monitors housemates and house activity."

Just hours before Alex left she had bragged she was determined to "be evicted with a bang. I never thought I'd last long," she said. "My mouth is too big.

"But I'd rather be like that than a sheep."