Jade Goody's teenage boyfriend was today bailed after police arrested him on suspicion of assault.
Model Jack Tweedy was arrested after a youth claimed he was hit over the head with a golf club.
It was reported the 19-year-old, dressed in pyjamas, chased a gang of yobs who had been abusing him and the Big Brother star outside their £500,000 home.
The alleged attack took place on Wednesday night and follows reports of trouble two weeks earlier when Jade, 25, challenged a pack of 15 foul-mouthed youths screaming abuse.
One is reported to have yelled: "You're only famous because you got your tits out on telly."
Jade, 25, who exposed her 'hairy kebab' in a notorious drunken incident in the 2002 Big Brother house, shouted back: "Actually it wasn't my tits, it was my fanny."
A neighbour of the couple in Chipping Ongar said: "A gang of up to 15 teenagers have been coming into the road for one purpose - abusing Jade, They've been doing it for weeks.
"Jade has always been very restrained, but two weeks ago she had an extremely heated exchange. She put this lout in his place and they all left."
The neighbour said that the gang returned on Wednesday as Jade was putting her children, Bobby Jack, three and Freddie, two, to bed.
They said: "Jack came racing out of the house in his pyjamas. He’d simply had enough. Another neighbour came out too and they chased the kids off. No blows were exchanged. Twenty minutes later the police arrived and took Jack away."
Officers are understood to have searched the house while Jade's toddlers sobbed, but are not believed to have found a golf club.
This morning, Essex police said: "A 19-year-old man from Ongar has been bailed to return to Loughton police station in connection with assault relating to an incident in Greensted Road, Ongar on Wednesday 20 December.
"A 27-year-old, also from Ongar, has also been arrested in connection with the incident."
The arrest meant that Tweedy, appearing under the name Tweed, could not appear yesterday at Harlow Magistrates Court on drink driving charges.
He is due to answer police bail at Loughton police station on in March
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