Reality TV act denies rape charges

A FORMER I’m A Celebrity contestant will stand trial after pleading not guilty to raping two women.

Brazilian-born rapper Aggro Santos, 23, is charged with raping one woman in Chichester, West Sussex, on 7 May last year, and another in Yeovil, Somerset, between 24 and 27 September 2010.

Another man, 21-year-old Tyrelle Ritchie, faces one count of rape in Chichester on the same date.

Santos, who appeared under his real name Yuri Santos, and Ritchie both denied the charges at a hearing at Chichester Crown Court yesterday.

Santos’s debut single, Candy, shot to number five in the UK charts in 2010. He became more popularly known by his appearance in the 2010 series of ITV’s reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in which he reached the final six.