
Mickey Rourke. Photograph: Channel 4
Even Mickey Rourke can’t forestall from Mickey Rourke from being an ass. The actor and previous boxer agreed to depart Famous person Giant Brother on April 12, in step with the BBC. Up to now, he were issued a caution following homophobic feedback he’d made towards JoJo Siwa. Then he made sexual feedback towards Ella Rae Sensible, from The Most effective Manner Is Essex. Sensible informed him he needed to come along with her, and he answered, “Are available you?” He additionally were given right into a verbal combat with Love Island’s Chris Hughes. “You taking a look at me? Don’t eyeball me,” Rourke mentioned to Hughes within the April 13 episode after Hughes checked out Rourke when a “rat” used to be discussed all through a pirate-themed problem. Hughes answered, “Mickey, it used to be a funny story,” to which Rourke mentioned, “Don’t f- – – ing eyeball me. You c- – -.” Different housemates saved the 2 aside.
When Giant Brother requested him to depart, Rourke apologized. “I will’t take it again, ya know. I stepped over the road,” he mentioned. “I take accountability for doing the incorrect factor as a result of I misplaced my mood, and I’ve been seeking to paintings on it my entire lifestyles. And I want I’d have had higher strength of mind. And I’m very sorry.”