CBB star Hardeep is facing yet more controversy
Celebrity Big Brother housemate Hardeep Singh Kohli is once again under fire from both his fellow housemates and viewers over his questionable behaviour.
The comedian, who was infamously dropped from The One Show over questions about his conduct in 2009, has been a lightning rod for controversy since entering the house last week.
Amid complaints that Hardeep himself may have been bullied by Natalie Nunn, viewers and housemates him have also taken issue with him for violating personal space with others during conversations.
During Tuesday's (August 21) episode, Hardeep once again caused controversy when he was critical of Chloe Ayling's glamour modelling past.
"Seeing your naked body in Page 3 doesn't make you feel uncomfortable?" he asked her.
When Chloe insisted that she was not at all ashamed of her Page 3 past, Hardeep told her that he was "passionately against" glamour modelling.
"You and I are going to fall out but I was passionately against Page 3. I campaigned against it," he said. "I just don't think it's very healthy. If we live in an equal world, genuinely, I would have no issue with it.
"But I can't help thinking that it's part of the objectification of women… We're all guilty."
Those comments earned him a nomination later in the day from Chloe, who insisted in the Diary Room that Hardeep had overstepped the mark by judging her.
"We had a conversation earlier where he was quite judgmental about my previous career," she told Big Brother. "I feel that people shouldn't jump to conclusions… I feel he was putting me down on what I did."
Viewers overwhelmingly sided with Chloe:
RE: Hardeep’s convo with Chloe. Men sexualised women’s bodies and then they criticise them for making money in the patriarchal system, that men created 🙄 #cbb #Feminism
- A l a n n a (@Miss__Dotty) August 21, 2018
Really enjoying Hardeep Singh Koli mansplaining to Chloe why she should feel objectified having done Page 3 and whether or not she ‘chose the root’ of glamour modelling #CBB
- rach 🍃 (@rchlrnshw) August 21, 2018
Page 3 girls wouldn’t do it if they didn’t want to, some women also find things like that empowering Hardeep #CBB
- KayleighTeeVee (@Kayleighann88) August 21, 2018
Hardeep desperately trying to convince Chloe that she felt objectified by modelling for page 3. #CBB
- Emma Cottle (@EmmaJCottle) August 21, 2018
Anyone else feel uncomfortable that Hardeep is asking 21 year old Chloe about her page 3 history? #CBB
- inthestyle.com (@inthestyleUK) August 21, 2018
Hardeep talking about page 3 is making me so uncomfortable 😬#CBB #CBBUK #CelebrityBigBrother
- 👑 Chloe 👑 (@PastelUnicorn5) August 21, 2018
In yet more awkward scenes, Hardeep broke down into tears moments after his glamour modelling discussion when Chloe and Roxanne revealed that they didn't speak to their respective dads.
"Being around you two women who say you don't need your dads [made me cry]," he wept. "I'm not crying for you. I'm crying for the dads."
"Don't cry for my dad," Roxanne shot back as Hardeep countered that he too is a father, adding: "You're not my dad!"
Later in the Diary Room, Roxanne also nominated Hardeep for making "a couple comments that I didn't appreciate about [her] absent dad". In the end, Big Brother announced that Hardeep and Natalie will face Friday's eviction.
Celebrity Big Brother continues on Wednesday (August 22) at 9pm on Channel 5, followed by Rylan Clark-Neal recapping all the house action on Bit on the Side at 11pm.
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