Big Brother 9 Housemate Alexandra De-Gale (Channel 4 image)

Big Brother 9 - Alexandra De-Gale

Friday, 6 June 2008

Alexandra De-Gale is a 23-year-old single mother from Croydon, who had her daughter when she was 16 years old.

Her daughter is now seven, and Alexandra says she's proud of what she's achieved, in raising her child on her own, while also having a good job and nice cars.

The accounts executive was raised as a Christian, but a few years ago converted to Islam. However, despite trying to go to her mosque as often as she can, she now describes herself as a non-practising Muslim.

Alexandra's philosophy in life is "go hard or go home", and she believes that private schools should be scrapped and that everyone should be educated to the same standard for free, so everyone has an equal start in life.

She describes herself as quirky, outgoing and a go-getter, and hates to be bored. And while she's proud of what she's achieved for a 23-year-old, she's a little disappointed as she wanted to be a millionaire by now.

However, Alexandra does claim she's famous in Croydon and says that lot of people want to socialise with her.

Her own worst critic, Alexandra admits she's not very pleasant to live with sometimes, but declares herself a natural born leader.

Appearance-wise, she gives herself 10/10 for looks, and says "love me or hate me – you'll be obsessed!"

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