Christopher Biggins will visit Auschwitz after being removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house for making a Holocaust “joke” aimed at a Jewish housemate. It was a stupid thing to do and I truly regret it.
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“You have continued to use unacceptable language … which is capable of causing offence … do you have anything to say?”
Discussing the LGBT community with fellow housemate Renee Graziano, Biggins – who himself is gay – was accused of biphobia after saying, “I think the worst type though is, I’m afraid to say, the bisexuals”.
On Friday, Biggins said homosexuals had been blamed for the rise of the “killer disease” but he thought it “was a bisexual disease, if I’m honest”.
Sam can be seen crying, saying: “I can’t believe it, I’m upset”.
Of his short time in the Celebrity Big Brother house Bovey told Emma “Being in Big Brother has been extraordinary and I have been able to spend time with extraordinary and talented people from all walks of life”.
Lee Chappy, the man who famously looks like the Leicester and England man, seems to have backed the under-fire Biggins on his official Twitter account. ‘I have a lot of bisexual friends and I’m not in any way a bigoted person’.
To us, this is not an issue of one being free to speak your mind; this show is a corporation in its own way, and they have a right to dictate what you can and cannot say.
Graziano said she had been told by an unnamed former Central Intelligence Agency agent that “they gave it (Aids) to kill off third world countries”, which Biggins agreed with, stating he thought it was “man-made”.
CBB star Katie Waissel’s mum has called for cops to probe Christopher Biggins over the sick Nazi gag that saw him hoofed off the show.
When asked who would replace the entertainer now that he has gone, Grant replied: “I don’t think James will because he can’t hold court the way that Biggins did”.
“I am very sorry and I am very sad”, Biggins said in response to the news.
After all this, Big Brother spoke to Biggins in the Diary Room, referencing comments he had made, but did not show them.
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There are suggestions the 67-year-old former sitcom actor could lose his appearance fee following the controversial comments.
