Dane Bowers in court on ex-fiancee assault charge

Former boyband star Dane Bowers is to appear in court today, charged with assault.

Bowers, 35, has pleaded not guilty to one count of assault by beating against his ex-fiancee Sophia Cahill in Croydon in January.

Bowers, a former Brit School student, became famous in the late-1990s as a member of R&B band Another Level and after the group disbanded he sang a duet, Out Of Your Mind, with Victoria Beckham. He went on to appear in Celebrity Big Brother in 2010.