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Benefits Street star White Dee accuses Channel 4 of 'exploiting' cast
Benefits Street star White Dee has slammed the Channel 4 show’s producers for ‘exploiting’ the cast. The TV series, which ran for two seasons, followed the lives of Birmingham residents on ‘one of Britain’s most benefit-dependent streets’ including White Dee (real name Deidre Kelly), Samora Roberts who was known as Black Dee, and James Clarke. It gained immense popularity when it premiered in 2014, which White Dee described as a ‘Benefits Street explosion’, saying that she and her fellow James Turner street residents were suddenly ‘on the front page of many national newspapers.