Benefits Street viewers were fascinated by the lives of characters like White Dee, Black Dee, Fungi and 50p Man.
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BLACK DEE: Samora Roberts, 42, was jailed for seven years in 2016 for possessing live ammunition and crack cocaine with intent to supply.
She was originally arrested in June 2013 when 38-calibre Smith & Wesson bullets were found in a shoe under a laundry basket at her home.
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SMOGGY “50p MAN”: The door-to-door salesman, real name Stephen Smith, 47, sold household wares to the residents.
Millionaire Charlie Mullins offered him a deal to open a discount store but they fell out and it never happened.
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SHERRELL DILLION: Known as SB.
Seen on the show trying to launch her modelling career while being a single mum – and she managed it.
Sherrell, 36, has modelled all over the world and even appeared in a Big Narstie music video.
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JAMES “FUNGI” CLARKE: Ex-crack cocaine addict moved to Cardiff to escape attention after the show.
While still battling booze and drug addictions, a fan paid £12,000 for him to go to rehab.
Died of a heart attack in 2019 aged 50 at a house for recovering addicts in Birmingham.
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LEE NUTLEY: Found dead by an ambulance crew in October 2016 at a home in Stockton where the second series of the show was filmed.
He had suffered health issues in the years leading up to his death, including heroin addiction and epilepsy, but was trying to get his life back together.
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MARK THOMAS and BECKY HOWE: Mark, 30, had never held down a full-time job and got into trouble after bragging about fiddling his benefits.
A month after filming finished he got a job as a labourer and he and partner Becky, also 30, stopped claiming.
The couple and their young children moved away after the show aired, but did not share their new address with people from the TV street.
In 2019 neighbour Anna Korzen said: “They seemed to enjoy the attention at first but I think it got too much for them.
“They left six months ago but didn’t say where to.”