Celebrity Big Brother contestant's tears over huge punching row amid star's 'secret manipulation'
22.03.2024 - 19:35
/ ok.co.uk
Ryan Thomas still feels sorry for Roxanne Pallett after she falsely accused him of assaulting her in the Celebrity Big Brother house six years ago. On an episode of his family podcast, Mancs on the Mic, Ryan, who co-hosts the show with his brothers Adam Thomas, and Scott Thomas, recalled the devastating experience.
"I wanted to be the first in and the first out, I was so nervous going into that show because it's the first time I'm showing me for me and I knew that the cameras were on me 24/7, that's quite a daunting thing to go through," Ryan said of the 2018 reality series. Having playfully tapped Roxanne, 41, in the stomach one day, Ryan said his housemates had disregarded him for a while.
This unfolded because the former Emmerdale actress complained that he'd made her feel uncomfortable.
However, on eviction night Ryan realised that the outside world was backing him as he heard the words, "get Roxanne out!" "The night of [Scott] sending me that message which was emotional enough as it was... they then did the eviction and I got to hear the words, 'get Roxanne out!' and I just released because I knew it wasn't about me, I knew it was about her," he shared.
"But when you're in there, it's one of the most lonely places that you can ever go to because you don't know these people from Day One; you're building a relationship with people that you've never really met before, you're in an environment where you're being put out your comfort zone on all levels. "It's so weird I get emotional about it now because it's over." Ryan, who is engaged to The Only Way is Essex's Lucy Mecklenburgh, went on to claim you "can't hide from who you really are in a show" like Big Brother and that it "can be quite a lonely and scary place" when
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