Mickey Rourke, 72, now in fresh ‘body-shaming’ row with ITV CBB housemate just hours after Jojo Siwa ‘homophobia’ clash
Mickey Rourke continued to cause havoc in the Celebrity Big Brother house in Wednesday night’s episode after he was accused of “weight-shaming” fellow housemate and comedian Donna Preston.
Earlier in the programme, Rourke had been reprimanded and given a formal warning by the production team after he made a homophobic slur towards JoJo Siwa.
After settling things with the former Dance Moms star, Rourke found himself upsetting another of his housemates after he made an indirect comment about her weight.
The comedian was laid on her bed with an LED facemask and explained to Rourke and Pasty Palmer she had been using it for a couple of months.
“You’d probably be better off running round the block for 10 minutes,” Rourke noted, leaving Preston to reply: “I’ve got to try something. I’m getting a little turkey neck.”
Rourke went on to note that it “comes with the territory” and added: “It’s like they say, you are what you eat.”
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Preston was clearly thrown by the comment and simply nodded before Palmer stuck up for her and said: “You eat really healthy though, don’t you?”
The comedian agreed that she now has a much better diet and has been working at it over the years.
Preston was clearly left uncomfortable and upset over the comment as she went and relayed the bizarre interaction with Danny Beard and Ella Rae Wise.
After repeating the “You are what you eat” comment, Beard responded in shock: “You what? Did he think you were gonna lose half a f***ing stone just by putting an LED mask on?”
“I was just like, I’m just trying to get rid of a couple of wrinkles on my turkey neck,” Preston said before Wise sarcastically noted: “He has got the worst way of words, hasn’t he?”
Beard added: “This is it though. when you have a bigger body, people think they have a right to comment.”
Preston soon got her revenge, sniping about Rourke: “Yeah, and I’m not being funny, I’ve seen a French bulldog with a better f***ing body. Cheeky b*****d.”
Viewers at home who watched the interaction were equally left stunned at another one of his comments, as one noted on X: “We know what Mickey was tryna imply when he said ‘comes with the territory/u are what u eat’.”
A second agreed: “So he’s been homophobic to JoJo and commented on Donna’s weight for NO reason… someone get Mickey out, I’m so on edge about what he’s gonna say next.”
And a third fumed: “What right does Mickey Rourke have to think he can speak to women the way he does?
“He’s now clearly body shaming Donna who’s only talking about making lifestyle changes for her own benefit. The bloke’s a pig who’s trapped in the dark ages.”
Someone else chimed in: “Surely someone needs to do something about Mickey now? He’s offended two people in the space of a few hours…” (sic)