Of all the unexpected things that happened on this series of Celebrity Big Brother – Stephen Bear and Chloe Khan, Renee Graziano calling Bear cancer, Lillie Lexie Gregg storming in the house to tell off Bear (basically everything Bear was involved with) – Christopher Biggins’ removal was perhaps the most shocking.
It emerged that he was ejected after being given three warnings for “offensive language” that could cause “widespread offence”.
He had early on in the show made some biphobic comments in conversation with Renee Graziano. While she was discussing sexuality with Frankie Grande, Biggins asked here: "Do you have a problem with gay people?" to which she replied that she didn't.
She said: "When you're gay you're gay. And I think it's beautiful because I think it's who you are and it's natural."
All well and good, eh?
But then they continued.
"But I think today in society they kind of force things on people and they confuse you."
Biggins agreed, adding that he felt some people claiming to be LGBT were trying to be "trendy". Renee then said: "If you're gay, you know it!"
He replied: "I think the worst type though is, I'm afraid to say, the bisexuals. What it is, is people not wanting to admit they are gay."
He later made more biphobic comments – this time in reference to the disease AIDS.
He also made an anti-Semitic ‘joke’ to Katie Waissel, who’s Jewish.
And now Katie has slammed Biggins after he said that his ‘joke’ was “blown out of proportion” and said he’d sit down on a sofa with her in six months.
She told The Sun Online: “Biggins claimed I had a lot of issues but now he is slamming me for doing the same. Why is it one rule for Biggins and one for another?
“I think he should be more embarrassed than me. I would never sit down on a TV sofa and talk to that man.
“I don’t have time for people that make remarks about young women for their own personal gain and I certainly don’t want to sit down with someone who excuses making anti-sematic jokes by saying they are friends with Lesley Joseph!”
Very fair.