Christopher Biggins has said he will visit Auschwitz this year after being removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house over his use of “unacceptable language”.
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Explaining his decision, he said: “We’re going for five days in October”.
He added: “That’s what I’ve read and that’s what I believe”.
He was booted out of the Channel 5 reality show on Friday after being given three warnings by Big Brother for his remarks on bisexuality and for a comment about gas chambers to X Factor reject Katie Waissel, who is Jewish.
He exclusively revealed in The Sun that he made a “joke” about a concentration camp to Jewish housemate Katie.
Well, while I’m sure Biggins yet again meant no offence, and assuming he was correctly quoted of course, to intimate that he could ever “experience the whole scenario of the Jewish annihilation” by simply visiting Auschwitz was possibly ill-advised.
A video clip and images have emerged of Christopher Biggins dressed in a Nazi uniform following his shock exit from the Celebrity Big Brother house last week.
‘I was called into the diary room so I went along in a shirt and underwear.
On Sunday, Biggins said it did not occur to him a “joke” he made to Waissel was referring to Nazi concentration camps and reiterated his apology: “I am mortified by what’s happened, really mortified”.
Viewers have since learnt that he also made further problematic comments about bisexual people, after sparking a viewer backlash earlier this week when he branded them “the worst type”.
“For now I’m taking some time to be with loved ones, I hope you all understand”.
Biggin’s agent Jonathan Shalit, who is Jewish, told the UK’s Jewish News: “I have been close friends and worked with Biggins for many years and can confirm that he would never intentionally cause offense”.
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.
“But that is all I said”.
I think it was a bisexual disease, if I’m honest.
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The gameshow sees Biggins quiz contestants who are behind a desk decorated with Reichsadlers, the eagle symbol synonymous with Hitler’s regime.
