Celeb BB: Alex Reid denies fight with Dane

Celeb BB: Alex Reid denies fight with Dane
Celeb BB: Alex Reid denies fight with Dane (Image credit: PA)

Katie Price's boyfriend Alex Reid has denied fighting with her ex Dane Bowers as both men entered the Celebrity Big Brother house. It was reported that the pair came to blows at the glamour model's New Year's Eve party. Dane, a former member of boyband Another Level, had a cut to his face as he arrived at the Big Brother house but both men denied they had argued. The show's host Davina McCall asked Alex if he had fought with Dane. "Categorically no," he said. "I wasn't even aware there was a fight until afterwards." His answer left viewers wondering if someone else had fought with Bowers, especially when the singer arrived with a cut above his right eye. The crowd chanted "fight, fight, fight" when Bowers arrived. Asked about the reported brawl with Alex, he told Davina: "I'm sorry to disappoint you but we actually get on okay. We get on well. "What you read isn't true, I'm afraid, as interesting as it sounds." Once inside Dane was asked about the cut and told housemates that he had got it a couple of days ago but did not explain how.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.