Celebrity Big Brother star Christopher Biggins set to make his big TV comeback after Nazi joke shame with appearance on David Walliams’ new show
Biggins has slowly been returning to the world of showbiz after being kicked off Celebrity Big Brother
CHRISTOPHER Biggins will make his big TV comeback on David Walliams's new comedy sketch show called Walliams & Friend.
Biggins was kicked out of Celebrity Big Brother during the summer for making an anti-Semitic joke and has slowly been returning to the world of showbiz with an appearance on Good Morning Britain last week.
His comeback comes after he was cleared by TV watchdog Ofcom over biphobic comments he made on Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother.
The 67-year-old was removed from the Channel 5 reality show in August following a number of biphobic and anti-semitic remarks, many of which were cut before broadcast.
However in one exchange that did make it to air, the pantomime star was discussing the LGBT community with fellow housemate Renee Graziano and said: “I think the worst type though, I’m afraid to say, the bisexuals.
“What it is is people not wanting to admit they are gay.”
His comments provoked 44 complaints, but Ofcom has now given its verdict, stating Biggins’ words were “within the audience’s expectations”.
The 67-year-old has since apologised for his remarks and according to the , he will take the mickey out of himself in the new sketch show.
Biggins will star in a "skit about about a spoof reality TV show called Celebrity Slammer" which is set in a prison and will also star The Chuckle Brothers, Bob Carolgees and Spit The Dog plus The Bill’s Chris Ellison.
According to the Star, the former Porridge star will try and saw through the bars to get into the celeb prison so he can be an inmate, screaming: "I want to get back on TV!"
Other special guests on the show will include Jack Whitehall doing his best version of Sherlock Holmes and harry Enfield, who will be dressing up as the Queen.
Walliams & Friend stars on Friday, November 25 on BBC One.
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