Editing Dizzee Rascal (section)

==Personal life==
In March 2005, Dizzee Rascal was arrested for allegedly carrying a [[Firearms Act 1968|section five]] firearm after a search during a car stop in east London; he was found to be in possession of pepper spray. The driver of the car was also arrested after being found in possession of pepper spray, an [[ASP baton]] and cannabis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4313817.stm |title=Rapper Rascal arrested in London |publisher=BBC News |date=3 March 2005}}</ref>

In February 2008, Dizzee Rascal's ex-girlfriend, model Kaya Bousquet, whom he had dated for two years, died in a high-speed crash on the [[M1 motorway]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/dizzee-rascal-mourns-ex_1075511 |title=Dizzee Rascal Mourns Ex |publisher=Contactmusic.com |date=27 July 2008 |access-date=6 February 2013 |archive-date=30 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330081012/https://www.contactmusic.com/dizzee-rascal/news/dizzee-rascal-mourns-ex_1075511 |url-status=live }}</ref> Later that year in December he was arrested and held on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after allegedly approaching a motorist with a baseball bat in a road rage incident at Sevenoaks Way, [[Orpington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/15/dizzeerascal-urban |title=Dizzee Rascal arrested |work=The Guardian |date=15 December 2008}}</ref>

Dizzee Rascal said in 2010 that he planned not to use drugs or alcohol at all in the future. He told ''[[The Independent]]'', "I'm not having any alcohol. No weed. I'm not doing anything – except some boxing to release energy."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a214192/dizzee-rascal-gives-up-drugs-alcohol.html |title=Dizzee Rascal gives up drugs, alcohol – Showbiz News |publisher=Digital Spy |date=13 April 2010 |access-date=6 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528113406/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a214192/dizzee-rascal-gives-up-drugs-alcohol.html |archive-date=28 May 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2011, however, when asked what his favourite drink was during an interview with ''[[GQ]]'', he answered "Do I drink [alcohol] now? To be honest with you, the whole living clean vibe didn't last long. My biggest mistake was probably saying it in an interview, to be fair. I tried living mad clean – but I like partying as much as anyone else."<ref>{{cite web |last=Morris |first=Andy |url=http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-08/25/gq-music-dizzee-rascal-interview-on-bing-rick-ross-and-tinie-tempah |title=Dizzee Rascal interview about Rick Ross and Tinie Tempah – GQ Music |website=Gq-magazine.co.uk |date=25 August 2011 |access-date=2 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170410/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-08/25/gq-music-dizzee-rascal-interview-on-bing-rick-ross-and-tinie-tempah |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref>

In November 2013, Rascal received an honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the [[University of East London]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press-releases/2013/11/honorary-doctorates5.htm
 |title        = UEL News archive – Superstar Dizzee Rascal awarded Honorary Doctorate from UEL
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 |access-date   = 27 September 2014
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203172036/http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press-releases/2013/11/honorary-doctorates5.htm
 |archive-date  = 3 December 2013
|url-status     = dead
}}</ref>
He was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2020 Birthday Honours]] for services to music.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54463904 |title=Mary Berry and Dizzee Rascal on Queen's Birthday Honours list |work=BBC News |date=9 October 2020 |access-date=10 October 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010225921/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54463904 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63135|supp=y|page=B20|date=10 October 2020}}</ref>

On 7 March 2022, Dizzee Rascal was convicted of [[Domestic violence|assaulting his former partner]] Cassandra Jones, with whom he has a daughter and a son, at a property in Streatham on 8 June 2021, after a 'chaotic argument'. Upon leaving court, he knocked a camera from a [[Press Association]] photographer's hands and threw it across the street.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dizzee-rascal-guilty-assault-court-b2030315.html|title=Dizzee Rascal guilty of assaulting ex-fiance and smashes camera after verdict|author=Rory Sullivan|work=[[The Independent]]|date=7 March 2022|accessdate=7 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/07/dizzee-rascal-found-guilty-of-assaulting-ex-fiancee |title=Dizzee Rascal smashes photographer's camera after court's guilty verdict |last=Farah |first=Hibaq |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=7 March 2022 |access-date=8 March 2022}}</ref> He received a community order, which included a 24-week curfew, as well as a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting Jones for a period of 12 months. An appeal against his conviction was dismissed in January 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/27/dizzee-rascal-loses-appeal-against-conviction-for-assaulting-ex-18179968/amp/ | title=Dizzee Rascal loses appeal against conviction for assaulting ex }}</ref>