Mickey Rourke received official warning this week after British producers of Celebrity Big Brother said comments he made to fellow contestants Jojo Shiwa “Aggressive and unacceptable.”
The 21-year-old dancer and actress Shiwa revealed it to Rourke She’s a lesbian After they met at the show he asked her if she liked “boys or girls.”
“Okay,” he replied.
Afterwards, while the cast hangs in the garden of the house. Rourke said Siwa: “If I stayed for more than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.”
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Mickey Rourke received formal warning this week after the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother producer said that the comments made to fellow competitor JoJo Siwa were “aggressive and unacceptable.” (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images; Monica Schipper/Wireimage)
“I can assure you that you are still gay, and I will still be in a very happy relationship,” she replied with a laugh.
Later, Rourke jokes that he might tie her up, and Shiwa says that she jokes him “dares” and ends up ending up tied up.
Minutes later, Rourke told some of the other cast members that he planned to “vote for lesbians.”
“If I stayed for more than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.”
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“If that’s your reasoning, it’s homophobic,” shouted Siwa after overhearing the conversation.
Later, Rourke cried out a homophobic slur. After asking some of the castmates a little about the wrinkles, they called them “a lovely woman.”
JoJo Siwa has revealed to Celebrity Big Brother castmate Mickey Rourke that she is gay. (axelle/bauer-griffin/filmmagic)
“I need to smoke,” he said, and the wrinkles could be heard from across the garden. “I’m not talking to you,” he added, pointing at her.
FAG is used by the British as a slang for tobacco and is separate from the homophobic slur.
“I can’t say that, Mickey,” British television host Chris Hughes told the “wrestler” star.
After Rourke returned to the house, Hughes said, “He’s just from another planet.”
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Shiwa then quickly thanked Hughes for having her back during a conversation with Rourke, despite not knowing her before she began crying, and he replied that it was a question of “positive and wrong.”
Shortly after that, Rourke was called to Shaw’s diary room, where the cast members made a video confession about the show and were able to talk to Big Brother, where he received an official warning.
While in the diary room, the unembodied brother’s voice told the 72-year-old actor that his language was “aggressive and unacceptable,” pointing out that he had been described as “unacceptable language and behavior” before entering the house.
Rourke apologized to Shiwa after the incident. (Bauer-Griffin/GC image)
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“I apologize. I have no disgraceful intentions. I’m just talking about Smack,” he told his brother.
“All housemates are respected and comprehensively trained and prepared to live in the home from Big Brother’s senior team to express Big Brother’s expectations for proper behavior and language,” a Big Brother spokesman said in a statement in Fox News Digital. “Housemates are monitored 24 hours a day, and cases of inappropriate behavior are handled appropriately and in a timely manner.”
After telling his castmate he “bited” in the diary room, Rourke told Siwa he wanted to apologize.
They shook hands and Shiwa said to him, “Thank you, I appreciate your apology.”
“I mean that,” he added. “If I didn’t, I wouldn’t say it to you.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Rourke and Siwa for comment.
