Even after being warned by Big Brother, Biggins did not reel in his comments on bisexuals.
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Despite the apology, bosses were forced to act after news broke of Biggins making the controversial comments. ‘I have a lot of bisexual friends and I’m not in any way a bigoted person’.
The panto star (67) was issued three official warnings before he was removed from the show and Channel 5 later issued a statement that said the actor’s comments were “capable of causing widespread offence”.
Biggins, who had previously won the TV reality show I’m A Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here!, later said: “I’m very sorry and I’m very sad”.
The show’s producers called him into the Diary Room and said they had no option other than to remove him from the house for what they declared was his third use of “unacceptable language”.
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.
Opening up about the anti-Semitic joke he made to Jewish housemate Katie Waissel, Biggins confessed he was sorry and apologised to her before leaving the show.
Viewers had no idea the former I’m A Celebrity victor had been given a warning last Monday for telling Jewish housemate Katie Waissel: “You better be careful or they’ll be putting you in a shower and taking you to a room”.
Now, the former CBB favourite has spoken out for the first time, and shed some light on the real reason why he was removed from the house. Listen, my best friend is Lesley Joseph. I think it was a bisexual disease, if I’m honest.
He continued, ‘I love Jewish people.
Biggins, who won ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Biggins stated he was in “disbelief” and thought it was a joke. “If his comments are as bad as we’re led to believe, they constitute a hate crime – police should be called in to investigate”, she told UK’s Mirror.
But, according to Biggins, the pair soon sorted things out.
Explaining his decision, he said: “We’re going for five days in October”.
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‘She never raised it again with me. “I know he only meant it as a joke, but back then – it wasn’t taken that way, as it wasn’t last week in the Celebrity Big Brother house”.
