From: NewNowNext
Andy West, the gay journalist who was suspended indefinitely by the BBC last year after criticizing the network’s refusal to condemn noted homophobe Tyson Fury, walked into the Big Brother UK house last night in his first TV appearance since leaving the BBC in 2015.
The 34-year-old former anchor first courted controversy in December last year, when he slammed the BBC on-air for nominating boxer Tyson Fury for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award just months after he publicly compared gay men to pedophiles.
“My employer is hurting me and other gay people by celebrating someone who considers me no better than a paedophile and who believes homosexual people are helping to bring about the end of the world,” West wrote on Facebook at the time. “I am ashamed to work for the BBC when it lacks the bravery to admit it is making a mistake.”
West will compete alongside fellow house guests (note: this is not the Celebrity Big Brother franchise!) this season to win the grand prize, a sum of money that has yet to be determined.
Asked by host Emma Willis why he decided to do Big Brother, since he’s a “serious journalist,” West said: “Well, I stopped being a journalist a short while ago in kind of weird circumstances, so I thought that this was a chance to show that journalists also have personalities and that they’re nice people.”
Asked by Big Brother about his strategy for winning, West said: “If people are kind of whispering and I kind of overhear my name and I’m thinking they are gossiping about me, then I will be quite glad that I’m making an impression because if I’m worth taking about then I’m worth voting for.”
— Big Brother UK (@bbuk) June 7, 2016
And as of yesterday morning, it appears as though he’s getting along just fine with his new housemates:
Andy may have missed his calling in life. Hairdresser banter on point. #BBUKhttps://t.co/fvq7BJ5etI— Big Brother UK (@bbuk) June 8, 2016
Good luck, Andy!
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