However, anyone hoping that Channel 5 would relent and air the footage in question – Katie was apparently left in tears, though she later accepted Biggins’ apology – will most likely be disappointed… “‘I would never do anything to upset you”.
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And not least because according to the Mirror today, Celebrity Big Brother bosses and Channel 5 could already be facing hefty fines imposed by telly watchdog Ofcom, depending upon the results of the industry regulator’s enquiries into viewer complaints.
Speaking after his removal from the house, he commented: “I know a lot of bisexuals and they’re very nice people”.
“You have continued to use unacceptable language … which is capable of causing offence … do you have anything to say?”
Christopher Biggins will visit Auschwitz after being removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house for making a Holocaust “joke” aimed at a Jewish housemate.
In turn, he was called into the Diary Room and was stunned to learn that he would be removed from the house immediately.
He said: “They were offensive and we are glad that he has apologised for them”.
Christopher Biggins described bisexuality as the “worst type of sexuality” and blamed bisexual people for the spread of HIV.
Celebrity Big Brother continues nightly on Channel 5. Then they had to do something.
Diana Waissel said that she had been anxious about her daughter having to be in the house with someone who would express those views. “Biggins is a much loved and wonderful man”. “Our whole family have a proud Jewish heritage and are absolutely disgusted by Biggins”. But he’s not just hurt my daughter.
He later apologised to Waissel and Big Brother for the “trite, ridiculous remark”, which was not broadcast but which he discussed in an interview in The Sun.
In the message read out by showbiz correspondent Rylan Clark-Neal, Biggins said: “Once again I wanted to say how very shocked and sorry I am”. “I love you and I’m really sorry” “, he told the Sun on Sunday.
“Big Brother has taken the decision to remove Christopher Biggins from the Celebrity Big Brother house”.
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One segment of the programme features Biggins dressed as an officer in a Nazi-themed game show called Valhalla or Bust, in which he speaks with a fake German accent and even salutes at the camera.
