Celebrity Big Brother UK 2025 FINALE – 5 SHOCKING TRUTHS You DEFINITELY Didn’t Know!
The Celebrity Big Brother final will be live from 9pm and it will be wrapped up by 10.30pm on ITV1 on Friday
Celebrity Big Brother is on the countdown to crowning its winner but first some of the famous faces are up for eviction.
The ITV series hasn’t been without controversy after 72-year-old Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke left the Celebrity Big Brother house more than a week ago following “inappropriate language” and “instances of unacceptable behaviour”.
A spokesperson for the ITV show said: “Mickey Rourke has agreed to leave the Celebrity Big Brother House this evening following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behaviour.”
The Celebrity Big Brother final still promises lots of drama for viewers at home. One of the biggest talking points from the series has been the friendship that has blossomed between Love Island star Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa.
Celebrity Big Brother’s 2025 line-up in full included: Michael Fabricant, Chesney Hawkes, Patsy Palmer, JoJo Siwa, Donna Preston, Mickey Rourke, Trisha Goddard, Angellica Bell, Danny Beard, Chris Hughes, Daley Thompson, Jack P Shepherd and Ella Rae Wise.
When is the Celebrity Big Brother final?
AJ Odudu and Will Best host Celebrity Big Brother. (ITV)
Hosted by Aj Odudu and Will Best, the Celebrity Big Brother final will be live from 9pm and it will be wrapped up by 10.30pm on ITV1 on Friday. The presenters will announce who the runners up are and chat to them before revealing the winner who will give their first interview as the Celebrity Big Brother 2025 champion.
The fun will continue then on ITV2 with its spin off show Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live which is also hosted by double act Odudu and Best. Late and Live’s chat show will air from 10.30pm until 11.35pm with more exclusive fallout from the Celebrity Big Brother final. There will be celebrity guests and a live studio audience.
Odudu recently shared the appeal of Celebrity Big Brother. Of the show, she told ELLE magazine: “It’s a leveller. Once you put these celebrities into a house and strip them of their celebrity, everyone’s equal. They’ve eaten the same meals, shared the same bathroom, the same bedroom. No one’s above or below anybody.”
She added: “They’re feeling the same as everyone else. They like a b**** and a gossip too, and I love to listen to it.”
Triple Tuesday eviction
Chris Hughes is among the stars facing Celebrity Big Brother eviction. (ITV)
It marks the third week for the famous faces in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
In the lead up to the final on Friday, three housemates will be evicted in a first for Celebrity Big Brother in an episode that has been dubbed “Triple Tuesday”. This will leave six celebrities vying for a place in the Celebrity Big Brother final.
Angellica Bell, Chris Hughes, Danny Beard, Ella Rae Wise and Patsy Palmer are at risk of going home in Tuesday’s episode.
Celebrity Big Brother fans can vote via the app which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Viewers get five votes and they are asked to save their favourite from eviction. Only two of the celebrities up for nomination will be saved.
Jack P Shepherd, Donna Preston and Jo Jo Siwa and Chesney Hawkes are one step closer to getting to Friday’s final.
Daley Thompson, Trisha Goddard and Michael Fabricant had been eliminated before Triple Tuesday while Rourke was removed.
Who could win Celebrity Big Brother? The final five
Celebrity Big Brother 2025’s final is all to play for. (ITV)
It’s likely there will only be five famous faces left in the Celebrity Big Brother house for the final.
Last year, David Potts beat finalists Fern Britton, Corrie’s Colson Smith, Louis Walsh and Strictly’s Nikitia Kuzmin to the Celebrity Big Brother crown. Kuzmin came in second place, Colson in third place, Walsh took the fourth spot and Britton was the fifth runner up.
Each celebrity will be evicted one at a time, allowing them to have their time in the spotlight with the hosts to discuss their time in the house.
The celebrities are each given their own individual fee for appearing on the show. ITV do not publicly disclose how much the stars are paid for their appearance.
Celebrity Big Brother’s winner gets the title of winning the show and often it leads to a career boost for the star as they have proved popular on the series.
As of Tuesday, Betting giant Coral have named Danny Beard and Jack P Shepherd as joint favourite to win the show with odds of 2/1.
Celebrity Big Brother continues at 9pm on ITV1.
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Ella Rae Wise has criticised fellow housemate Chesney Hawkes for failing to “stand up” to Mickey Rourke after the Hollywood star used “sexual language” towards her in his presence.
Rourke, 72, agreed to leave the show earlier this month after he used “inappropriate language” towards Wise, and “threatening and aggressive” behaviour towards presenter and fellow housemate Chris Hughes.
The Only Way Is Essex star Wise, 24, nominated singer Hawkes, 53, for eviction during Monday night’s episode, claiming Hawkes had not stood up for her when Rourke made “jokes” which made her feel uncomfortable.
She told Hawkes: “My first nomination is Chesney, just because when a certain someone was here that didn’t make me feel comfortable, I feel like when certain jokes were made you was in the same area, and as a man, you should have stood and said ‘that’s not okay’.
“And then after you did say to me that you’re sorry, that you didn’t feel as if you stood up for me as you should, but then still continue to faff about… and talk about Mickey every day.”
Chesney apologised to Ella, saying: “I’m sorry you feel that way. I’m sorry I did that.”
The singer later told fellow housemates he felt Ella’s comments were “a little bit harsh” and had upset him.
The pair hashed it out towards the end of the episode, with Ella apologising to Chesney for upsetting him, before adding: “I just felt some, maybe just a little bit of protection would have been nice.”
Hawkes replied: “I’m sorry that you felt uncomfortable at all ever in this house.
“It absolutely would kill me to think that you thought that I would not be a man and stand up to that.
“I’m so sorry that you felt that way. I really am, and I’m sorry that you had to go through that with him.”
More than 1,000 complaints were also made to Ofcom over Rourke’s “homophobic” and “unacceptable language and behaviour” towards former Dance Moms star and US singer Jojo Siwa on the show.
Elsewhere in the episode, Love Island star Hughes, 32, said he felt “really sad” about people’s attitudes toward his close friendship with Siwa, 21.
Hughes headed to the diary room and said that he feels “exhausted”.
He said: “People have made me feel like I can’t have a friendship with JoJo.
“Or feel like I have to justify a friendship with JoJo – because we get on and we have fun. I’m actually really sad.”
During the face-to-face nominations, each housemate had to place an Easter egg in the basket of the two housemates they wished to nominate and explain their reasons.
Five contestants, including Wise, Hughes, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season four winner Danny Beard, Children’s TV presenter Angelica Bell, and EastEnders star Patsy Palmer, were up for eviction at the end of the episode.
Siwa narrowly escaped the public vote after she picked the golden Easter egg for the basket and nominated Beard to take her place.
She had received nominations from Beard and Preston.
Wise received five nominations from Hawkes, Hugues, Siwa, Palmer, and Coronation Street actor Jack Shepherd, who all pointed to her lack of involvement in tasks and house chores.
Shepherd told Wise: “Whenever we get tasks, sometimes, if you’re not feeling up to it, your head can fall off of it, and you can throw your toys out the pram and not want to do it.
“And I feel like you don’t wash up as much as everybody else or clean.”
Hugues received nominations from Wise and Beard, while Bell received nominations from Shepherd, Palmer, and comedian Donna Preston.
Palmer received nominations from Hawkes, Bell, and Siwa.
Celebrity Big Brother continues on Tuesday at 9pm on on ITV1 and ITVX.
Patsy Palmer had an awkward Celebrity Big Brother exit interview with AJ Odudu and Will Best. (Shutterstock)
What did you miss?
Patsy Palmer refused to answer questions about Mickey Rourke after being evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The EastEnders star was the last of three housemates to be interviewed in a triple eviction from the ITV reality series on Tuesday, 22 April and host Will Best told her she had a “very different energy” to some of the other housemates.
Palmer was evicted along with TV presenter Angellica Bell and The Only Way Is Essex star Ella Rae Wise, and was quizzed about the friction between her and some of the other housemates, including her clash with Hollywood star Rourke over her cooking.
What, how, and why?
Celebrity Big Brother held a triple eviction. (ITV)
Five housemates faced eviction following face-to-face evictions. They were former CBBC presenter and Celebrity MasterChef winner Angellica Bell, former Love Island contestant Chris Hughes, Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard, former The Only Way Is Essex star Ella Rae Wise and EastEnders star Patsy Palmer were all nominated for the triple eviction.
Bell was first to be evicted from the house, and told her housemates, “I knew it. I told you.” When hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best revealed to her she was the first of three to leave the house that evening Bell looked delighted at the twist. Wise was the second evictee, followed by Palmer.
Palmer said of being evicted so close to the final: “I am celebrating. To be part of history, I think this is the first time they’ve ever had a triple, so my lucky number is three.”
Quizzing her about some of the friction with the housemates Odudu asked Palmer: “Did it really upset you when Mickey did complain to your face about the food?” Palmer said after a long pause: “Not really that.” There was another long pause and Odudu said: “Well, let’s move on.”
Asked about US popstar JoJo Siwa’s claims she brought the mood down, Palmer said: “Well, the person that said I was bringing the mood down, literally, I don’t know, I must be a magician to bring that mood down. Because you have never known anyone so with so much energy, in beautiful energy, but energy in your whole life. So I was amazed that she thought I had that much power.”
Best then told her: “I mean it’s interesting that you talk about energy, because I’ve never met you before, this is the first time we’ve properly spoken, and you do have a very calm energy, even now, you know. And I guess that is, like you say, very different to some of the other characters in the house.”
Palmer said: “Yeah, and that’s what makes it brilliant, you know, and that’s why we all, it’s a great experiment, you know, mixing a lot of people together that are all very different, different ages, different backgrounds, different beliefs, different everything, it just shows that that’s what we need right now, you know, in the world is that we can all live together despite our differences.” This speech won cheers from the crowd.
Odudu asked her: “You did say inside that you were struggling in there because you were missing your family, but was that the only reason?” Palmer said dismissively: “Yeah, that’s it, that’s it,” before another awkward pause.
Asked about her clash with Bell, Palmer said: “I think that we’re very similar in many ways we’ve worked a long time in the industry. We both struggled a bit with the, we both were quite private people, really, even though we’re on telly all the time.
“I think we were both a little bit shell shocked, like 120 cameras, like every day or whatever, you know, it’s kind of really daunting. I think that we – I thought she was snapping at me, she thought I was snapping at her. So it’s just friends, isn’t it?”
Bell said she hoped to get on better with Palmer. In her exit interview she said: “She always treated me like a child, not in a bad way, but she wanted to look after me. I put on myself, but she actually wants to look after whereas I wanted to help as well. And so there was that instant where I said, ‘Can I help?’ And she was like, ‘I don’t care.’ And that made me feel…”
The 49-year-old TV presenter said after leaving: “I was surprised Big Brother even knew who I was. To get a place in Celebrity Big Brother was amazing. And the thing is, I’m very pragmatic and I get it, because I was like, Big Bro, I’m leaving. I knew it. There’s some big names and there are big characters who’ve got huge platforms, who are talented, who are great. Everyone is wonderful. So I am just happy to be here. I did not think I would even last this long. So babes, in my eyes, I’ve won this show, let’s go home.”
Asked where being on Big Brother came in her 25 year career Bell broke down in tears and struggled to speak, uttering: “Now I’m gonna get emotional.”
Ella Rae Wise was second to be evicted. She said she felt “really happy to be out in the open and back to reality.” Referring to some of the tasks she said: “Look, listen, I’m an Essex girl. I don’t really wanna be dressed up as a fluffy cat. I’m gonna be honest, and I don’t really wanna be dollying about in a nappy.”
Wise admitted that there had been friction between her and Love Island contestant Chris Hughes and she had not been impressed by his relationship with JoJo Siwa.
She said: “I don’t think I was bothered. I think more so I can spot someone when they know what they’re doing and that they know what they’re gonna gain from someone. Just because Jojo is a young girl and being in the industry, like I know when you have latch on and people that want to get something and gain something from you. As time goes by, it’s hard to say that it isn’t genuine because at the end of the day I wasn’t in both their pockets when they were getting to know each other exactly that, and in each other’s beds every now and then apparently, but anyway. I just felt a little bit protected over Jojo because she’s young and I just didn’t want her to be used.”
