"This series Denny gets to grow up and realise a bit more about life. She's developed from this rough bitch and learnt a few lessons. Her alcoholic mum comes back this series and Denny wisens up to her this time, which is a hard lesson for her to swallow".

Alicya is certainly enjoying filming this series of Bad Girls as "before Denny was just bad all the time and she was doom and gloom. In life, she'd never had the chances to have fun and just to be a young girl - but now she has a new friend on G Wing, Shaz, another young offender, who brings Denny alive, as she is someone on her level".

Alicya has a lot of empathy for Denny as "she's young and fun with so much life in her - its just been channelled in the wrong way. She doesn't know any better. There is hope for Denny, even though she has been in and out of institutions since she was nine and is only twenty now - it just depends on whether she is strong enough when she gets out".

"I see Denny as a bit of a runner for the other inmates. She sorts things out for everyone and even manages to get things 'brought in', which is good for her 'cred' on the inside".

When the word "tattoos" is mentioned Alicya smiles broadly and proudly shows off Denny's nine! "I always scrub them off every night - and make-up have got very quick at putting them back on again! Once I did keep them on, just to see peoples' reactions. It's the barbed wire round my neck which gets the most reaction. People are either really intrigued or scared, and some can't look but kept surreptitiously glancing at my neck. It really helped me discover Denny, as she must invite those reactions every day. I think her tattoos are to create an instant visual image - for protection so that she's not hassled".

Whilst Alicya is waiting to film her next scene, she has taken up an unusual hobby or "therapy" as she calls it - colouring books! With a nice selection of books for age three upwards and her pens it "calms me down, and gives me something to concentrate on - I know it's a bit quirky but it's something I've always done!"