After Saying He'd Tie JoJo Siwa Up To Turn Her Straight And Making A Young Housemate Cry With Inappropriate Sexual Comments, Mickey Rourke Is Pursuing Legal Action Against 'Celebrity Big Brother'

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26-04-2025

In uncomfortable scenes, Rourke asked 21-year-old Siwa if she liked girls or boys, she replied: 'Me? Girls. My partner is nonbinary.' In response, Rourke said: 'If I stay longer than four days, you won't be gay anymore.'
Siwa remained calm as she retorted: 'I can guarantee I'll still be gay, and I'll still be in a very happy relationship,' but Rourke horrified viewers when he hit back with: 'I'll tie you up.'
Soon after, Rourke told former 'Love Island' star Chris Hughes: 'I'm going to vote the lesbian out real quick,' and when he was called out on his comments, Rourke used the F-slur while motioning toward Siwa and saying: 'I'm not talking about you.'
Siwa was reduced to tears by the exchange and comforted by her housemates, with Big Brother issuing Rourke a warning for his comments.
Rourke was called to speak with Big Brother in the Diary Room, where he insisted: 'Nothing really happened, we were just bantering back and forth. Sometimes someone can look at you a certain way in your eye, and they're saying something without saying it.'
He apologized to Hughes and the two hugged it out, but the women in the house were left unnerved by both incidents.
'I don't want to cry, it's fine, I just don't like it. I don't like all the sexual innuendos about: 'You're going to come in me' and that,' she tearfully continued.
'That's it, that is not OK, and it's driving me mad,' actor Patsy Palmer agreed. 'And it's not funny. In what world is any of that stuff funny?'
Speaking to Big Brother in the Diary Room, emotional Wise added: 'It just makes me feel on edge. I don't like the jokes, like, the sexual jokes that have been made towards me. I'm a young girl, I'm not a piece of meat, do you know what I mean? He's making people feel really uneasy.'
'It's fucked up, this shit,' Preston concluded. 'It's causing a weird place, I don't like it.'
'This language has caused offense to your fellow housemates and could cause offense to the viewing public,' Big Brother added, to which Rourke acknowledged: 'I did wrong, I apologize, I'm sorry, I can't take it back. I stepped over the line, and I take responsibility for doing the wrong thing because I lost my temper. And I've been trying to work on it my whole life, and I wish I would have had better self-control.'
'I'm very sorry, I'm ashamed of myself for losing it for a few seconds there,' he added of the incident with Hughes. 'Nobody got touched or hurt, maybe some feelings got hurt, or maybe others have feelings about someone getting upset, but I'm sorry about that.'
And when Big Brother said they had 'no option' but to ask Rourke to leave the house, Rourke understood. In fact, he admitted that he'd wanted to go the previous day when he was up for eviction, but he did not get voted out.
'I blame myself, I know it was my bad,' he said. 'I've got a short fuse and I know I upset a lot of people out there. And I'm sorry for that, I'm actually ashamed of myself for getting that hot. I went over the line, I did wrong. I guess, like you say, I'm a work in progress. I just want to pack my bags and leave. I wanted to leave yesterday, actually, but wasn't chosen. I'd like to leave now, actually.'
'There's no question that when 'Big Brother' booked Mickey Rourke, they were fully aware of both his public persona and how it aligned with his Hollywood rebel image,' Hines said in the statement, adding that ITV knew when booking Rourke that he would be 'explosive, controversial and attention-grabbing — and that's exactly what they got, and more.'
'In our discussions, 'Big Brother' was made fully aware of Mickey Rourke's background and lifestyle,' the statement went on. 'Yet rather than handle it professionally, they took it too far — publicly embarrassing him and using his removal as a marketing tool. That's not just unprofessional; it's deeply disrespectful and damaging.'
'To add insult to injury, 'Big Brother' is now refusing to pay Mickey his full agreed-upon fee. His legal team is currently pursuing the matter,' Hines concluded, claiming that 'Big Brother's' use of Rourke's 'name and image' is 'an insult to a true cinematic icon' after a 'long and accomplished career.'