Celebrity Big Brother’s Grant Bovey reveals housemates didn’t know why Biggins was kicked off the show
Former housemate spoke about his time in the Elstree compound on This Morning
GRANT Bovey has revealed on This Morning that the Celebrity Big Brother housemates had no idea why Christopher Biggins was removed from the house.
The businessman became the first housemate to be evicted from the show on Friday night's live episode, but was overshadowed by Biggins who Big Brother removed following a series of comments deemed offensive on the same day.
These 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.
However Grant said that when the housemates heard about his removal, they assumed it was a joke.
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.
"We couldn't work out why he'd gone.
"We didn't know. The strange thing was with Biggins, he went to the diary room - which you do two or three times a day - he was gone for half an hour and then Big Brother made an announcement saying Biggins had been removed. They used the word removed."
"We all thought it was a gag and that he'd gone off to do a task, but then they heard us and said no, he had been removed.
"It was then we thought it was serious, but none of us - the penny hadn't dropped - none of us could work out why he had gone."
Grant also admitted that he forgot that the cameras were on a lot of the time, but insisted that his flirting with Marnie Simpson was "just for sport".
It said: “Once again I wanted to say how very sorry and shocked I am about what’s happened.
“I’ve been so moved by some of the amazing and kind support I’ve been getting since being removed from the Big Brother house. Thank you.
“For now I’m taking some time out to be with loved ones, I hope you all understand. Love Biggins.”
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