Rapper with four UK number ones reveals he's retrained as a plasterer after being found guilty of assault
RAPPER Dizzee Rascal has got a secret side from his typical stage persona after secretly becoming a qualified plasterer.
The 40-year-old rapper, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills MBE, has become famed for storming the charts and earning five UK number ones including Bonkers, Dance Wiv Me and Dirtee Disco.
However, his career was derailed when he was convicted of assaulting his ex-fiancée, Cassandra Jones, in 2022 during a 'domestic dispute' about child contact.
But Dizzee has now revealed that, prior to this, he took part in a new qualification during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Forking out £1,495 for the course at Able Skills Construction Training in Dartford, Kent, Dizzee is now fully-certified plasterer.
Speaking to Fix Radio (via NeedToKnow), the singer said: 'I did a plastering course for however long.
'I forgot how to do it, I got the certificate and everything.
'In the pandemic yeah, for some reason I felt like I needed to learn to do stuff.
'Big up Able Skills. It was wicked.'
However, he added that he wasn't initially welcomed by the others taking part on the part-time course, explaining: 'People were miffed, when I got in the queue people were like 'What's he doing here?'
'Towards the end there was a couple dudes, I've been with them for weeks.
'They were like 'Hey oh my God it's you, hey man, he's rich man, he's famous man'.
Dizzee Rascal, 37, avoids jail after attacking ex-girlfriend and shoving her to the ground
'Right at the end is when they clocked it.'
The star got the certificate before his conviction, which he tried unsuccessfully to overturn in 2023.
He was able to swerve a jail sentence at the time, instead having to wear an electronic tag for 24 weeks after being handed a community order.
As part of the rules of the tag, he had a curfew between 8pm and 6am.
He was also slapped with a 12-month restraining order and ordered to pay £2,190 prosecution costs and a £95 victim surcharge.
Prior to his arrest, he won Best British Solo Artist at the Brits, and in 2012 he performed during the opening ceremony at the London Olympics.
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