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Tulisa added, "I remember it was an ITV appearance one time and I saw an online comment like: 'Her face looks like she's had a stroke', and that can be the effects of Bell's palsy. He might not have been as outspoken as the other two members of the group but Fazer was a vital member of N-Dubz, producing most of their tracks.

Fazer was unfortunately declared bankrupt in but continues to make music and play live shows. The rapper is also a dad and welcomed daughter Ava Rose with model girlfriend Ashley Emma in Vengaboys take The Big Quiz of Celebrity Style. In , he walked free despite breaching his suspended sentence for punching a nightclubber on the dance floor of Evissa in Reading, Berks.

He was also serving another suspended sentence at the time for spitting in the face of two teenage girls at a petrol station in Guildford, Surrey, in February , while on a night out. According to net worth estimation site networthtomb. At the time he defended the bankruptcy claim and wrote: "WTF is all this bullshhhhhh in the Paper!!!! I just got a quarter of a Mill!!!

For more stories like this one you can now download the BBC Newsbeat app straight to your device. For iOS go here. For Android go here. Related Topics. Racism Twitter. Dappy was born Costadinos Contostavlos in London 24 years ago, to Greek parents. In , his father died of a heart attack at the family home; Dappy tried and failed to resuscitate him. He was my dad and my best friend, that's why I called him B, never 'Dad'. When he died I was lost.

His father had helped sow the seeds for N-Dubz, in recent years one of pop's most successful acts. Following in the footsteps of So Solid Crew , who made the move from the underground into the charts, N-Dubz have in turn paved the way for rappers such as Tinchy Stryder and Wretch 32, allowing labels to see the commercial viability of artists who were previously a more niche proposition.

Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer his best friend since childhood spent months working on songs in a small office-cum-studio before playing clubs, uploading self-made videos onto YouTube and building an independent fanbase.

He stressed to the point that he died [from it]," says Dappy. Clearly, this is what fuels Dappy's desire to succeed. It also means he is unwilling to relinquish control of N-Dubz. In , the band were signed by Polydor, who went on to rerelease their early single Better Not Waste My Time — despite the fact that most N-Dubz fans had already downloaded it for free.

The band subsequently left the label and returned to self-funding their releases, before eventually signing with the smaller label, All Around The World. As soon as the label is mentioned, Dappy's hangover seems to lift. He claims Def Jam wanted to give them songs written by other people "I kept thinking: 'I've got something more unique inside of me when I write'" and have another reality TV show, focusing on their move to America Channel 4 have previously shown two series of Being … N-Dubz.