I’m a Celebrity’s Lady C leaps to the defence of Christopher Biggins following Celebrity Big Brother
Jungle star took to her Facebook page to voice her support for the star
LADY Colin Campbell is the latest reality star to throw her hat into the ring to defend Christopher Biggins following his removal from the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The I'm a Celeb star was initially rumoured to be entering the house this year, and has written a scathing rant about the producers decision to remove the entertainer after he made a series of offensive claims.
In the week he was in the Elstree compound, his comments included saying “AIDS was a bisexual disease”, that “bisexual people won’t admit that they’re gay” and a joke about Nazi concentration camps to Jewish housemate Katie Waissel.
The 66-year-old socialite, who famously isn't known to bite her tongue, even claimed that the reason behind the ejection was because it meant that Channel 5 bosses didn't have to pay his £150,000 fee.
She wrote on Facebook: "Think poor Christopher Biggins is being mistreated in the most appalling way. Can this all have been a cynical ploy to exploit his profile and deprive him of his justly-earned fee?
"Why does the Big Brother programme carry a warning about offensive comments if they then boot out their star turn (and most expensive housemate) for an opinion that is a 1 on a scale of 10.
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"Even if it had been an 11, he should still be in the house, providing the entertainment that is his specialty (sic), because the fact is, controversy is what Big Brother is all about, and if the housemates can't make controversial, indeed offensive comments, without being deprived of their fee (though the producers have derived a financial benefit for that contestant's presence and comments), the message to all other potential housemates is: DON'T GO INTO THE HOUSE!!!!
"Everyone who knows Christopher Biggins knows he is one of the nicest, kindest, most open-minded people.
"It's his critics who are offensive!!!! This is not Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia so can we please have more freedom of expression (which include the right to offend) and less of the repression that the thought police are deploying, to the detriment of everyone's liberty."
Grant Bovey, who became the first evicted housemate on Friday, said on This Morning today that the housemates were unaware that the star had caused offence and also defended him.
He told Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on This Morning: “At the time, he didn’t know he’d said something that could offend some people, and neither did anyone else in the house."
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