{"id":239533,"date":"2023-10-26T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239533"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:55:13","slug":"ryan-thomas-fights-back-tears-as-he-recalls-celebrity-big-brother-incident-with-roxanne-pallett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/celebrities\/ryan-thomas-fights-back-tears-as-he-recalls-celebrity-big-brother-incident-with-roxanne-pallett\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Thomas fights back tears as he recalls Celebrity Big Brother incident with Roxanne Pallett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Thomas still feels sorry for Roxanne Pallett, after she fraudulently accused him of assaulting her in the Celebrity Big Brother house five years ago.<\/p>\n

In the latest episode of his family podcast Mancs on the Mic, co-hosted with brothers Adam Thomas, who is currently competing on Strictly Come Dancing, and Scott Thomas, the 39 year old soap star looked back on that devastating experience. <\/p>\n

"I wanted to be the first in and the first out, I was so nervous going into that show because it's the first time I'm showing me for me and I knew that the cameras were on me 24\/7, that's quite a daunting thing to go through," Ryan said of the 2018 reality series.<\/p>\n


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Having playfully tapped Roxanne, 40, in the stomach one day, Ryan felt like the rest of his housemates completely disregarded him for a while. This unfolded because the former Emmerdale actress complained that he'd made her feel uncomfortable. <\/p>\n

Distraught over this turn of events, it wasn't until the next eviction night that Ryan finally realised the outside world was in his corner, and she'd manipulated the house.<\/p>\n

"The night of [Scott] sending me that message which was emotional enough as it was… they then did the eviction and I got to hear the words, 'get Roxanne out!' and I just released because I knew it wasn't about me, I knew it was about her," he shared.<\/p>\n

"But when you're in there, it's one of the most lonely places that you can ever go to because you don't know these people from Day One; you're building a relationship with people that you've never really met before, you\u2019re in an environment where you're being put out your comfort zone on all levels.<\/p>\n

"It's so weird I get emotional about it now because it's over."<\/p>\n


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Ryan, who is engaged to The Only Way is Essex's Lucy Mecklenburgh, went on to claim you "can't hide from who you really are in a show" like Big Brother and that it "can be quite a lonely and scary place" when you're put in that environment, so he feels a certain level of sympathy for Roxanne, who "found peace" from the backlash a year after it all went down.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, when he'd won the 2018 series, Ryan spoke exclusively to OK!<\/b> about his experience and managed to steer conversation very much away from the controversy. <\/p>\n

"No matter what went on in there, I have no regrets about doing the show," he commented. "<\/span>It was scary to show people the real Ryan Thomas, but I\u2019m grateful people liked what they saw. Every time I go out I get people stopping me to say hello and wanting to give me a hug. <\/p>\n

"After my time on Coronation Street, I didn\u2019t think the level of attention could get any bigger, but it\u2019s grown since CBB. People don\u2019t call me Jason Grimshaw any more, they call me Ryan."<\/p>\n

Mancs on the Mic podcast, available now on Global Player with brand-new episodes every Friday. <\/b><\/p>\n