Nadia Sawalha has defended Celebrity Big Brother housemate Perez Hilton, stating he never threatened Calum Best.
Nadia Sawalha and Perez Hilton
The former housemate was evicted over the weekend from the reality show, but has spoken out to defend her former housemate after he was given a formal warning.
During an argument broadcast on Saturday's show, Calum told Perez to be "the d*ck", to which the blogger responded: "I will do, I'll be the huge d**k and I'll shove it up you're a**e."
However, Nadia says the phrase was used as an insult and was in no way a threat, though she told Perez it was "unacceptable" all the same.
She explained on her return to ITV's Loose Women: "We're not Sonny and Cher. He's a grown man, he said what he said. I'm the only person in the house... I took him out in the garden and said, 'Why did you say that? That was unacceptable'.
"Everyone else ran off to their little corner and bitched about it, nobody said anything about it to his face.
"I'm just his friend I'm not his mother, I can't say, 'Right, you're going to go to bed and you're not going to have any dinner!' I said, 'That was really inappropriate, I don't know why you said that', but at the end of the day it wasn't a threat, it was an insult. That's what he did, he wasn't threatening it."
Nadia went on to claim that despite her friendship with Perez seeing her excluded by many of the housemates, she wouldn't change anything about her time in the house and noted that many of the good times she had didn't make it to television.
"Ten hours of the day Perez and I had an amazing, hilarious time laughing and playing but if I was a producer...I'm not going to show that, that's boring.
"So I stand by... I take any criticism that I get but I know I wouldn't change a single thing I did because in the moment, moment by moment, it felt absolutely the right thing to do."
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