Dele Alli felt “betrayed” by her estranged mother, here is all you need to know about who is Denise Alli his mother and his parents
Dele Alli, whose biological parents he no longer communicates with, has claimed that he felt “betrayed” by them.
Who are the parents of Dele Alli, mother Denise Alli and father Kehinde and what is their nationality and religion
Alli was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, in April 1996, just over a year after his parents – a Yoruba Nigerian named Kehinde and an English mother named Denise – first met in a nightclub and at the time Kehinde was studying for a Masters Degree at De Montfort University.
Alli’s father moved to the United States of America a week after his son’s birth and he was initially brought up by his mother, who suffered from alcohol problems. His parents were Muslims.
Nine-year-old Alli then moved to Nigeria with Kehinde after his parents split up and spent two years in an international school before returning to Milton Keynes to live with Denise, where he could also focus on football.
While in England, Alli moved in with the family of one of his teammates at MK Dons and refers to them as his ‘adoptive parents’ although he was never legally taken in by them.
During a sincere interview with Gary Neville, the former England international talked openly about a lot of emotional subjects, such as child abuse and a recent rehab admission due to a sleeping pill addiction. Dele also talked about his parents, prince-like Yorubas from Nigeria and multi-millionaire businessmen Kehinde, 54, and Denise, his 60-year-old mother, in his remarks.
His turbulent background, brought on by the couple’s separation when he was young, has had a significant influence on his life ever since. Dele’s mother, who was an alcoholic was granted custody of him. He disclosed that he was abused by one of her friends when he was six years old and that he started distributing drugs when he was eight years old before moving to live with his father in Lagos. When asked about that time in his life, during which he reportedly attended an exclusive foreign school costing ยฃ20,000 a year, Dele remarked on The Overlap: “My dad, my blood dad, lived in Africa.
He further said:
And then I got sent to him. I was meant to stay there for a year. It was horrible. I didn’t want to be there at all. Nothing against, you know where I was, but just going from what I was living in, because we had no money – mum had no money.”
In the end, Dele moved in with Alan and Sally Hickford, who are the parents of a teammate from the MK Dons academy. Despite the fact that they have never been his biological family, he refers to them as his adoptive family. Dele chose to wear ‘Dele’ on his back instead of his surname after joining Tottenham in 2015. Denise and Kehinde slowly disappeared from Dele’s life. Here is all you need to know about Denise, have a look.
Who is Denise Alli?
Dele Alli’s mother is a homemaker named Denise Alli. Dele moved with his father to Bigeria when he was nine years old.ย He spent two years there studying at an international school before returning to Milton Keynes and starting living with his mother. His mother’s maiden name is Denise Finch. Little else is known about her.
She is no longer married to Nigerian businessman Kehinde, who is also Dele’s father. They first connected at a club when Kehinde was a student at De Montford University. They reportedly had a brief relationship and married before Dele was born. They quickly started having relationship issues. After three years of marriage, the couple got a divorce. Kehinde is currently married to someone else. At his father’s wedding to his second wife Lola Read in 2006, Dele served as the best man.
Dele Alli was best man in 2006 at his father's wedding to second wife Lola Read. pic.twitter.com/aI3lSkCunY
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