Any feel-good vibes in Celebrity Big Brother on Monday didn't last long, thanks to yet more conflict between Amanda Barrie, Ann Widdecombe and Shane Jenek.
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Amanda came in for criticism from viewers over the weekend for dismissing Shane J's complaints about Ann's anti-LGBTQIA voting record during her years in Parliament, including voting against the civil partnership that Amanda now has.
Watch their confrontation below:
Monday's episode opened with Shane J reaching out to Amanda in an attempt to make peace, telling her: "I slept dreadfully last night thinking I'd upset you."
"I have nothing against you, your opinions or anything else," Amanda insisted. "What I do think is, it's best just to face the person, and say it. Otherwise, if you go around talking to other people, it makes you sound as if you're trying to turn people against people.
"And that is like school time. That's all, nothing against you personally."
Later, Amanda strangely argued against the need for acceptance of her own LGBTQIA community: "I sometimes think that it'd be a sort of blessing if people didn't expect other people to accept them.
"You can't ask people to accept you, or accept a community. You can only accept individuals and the way they behave."
That was a sentiment that not many viewers could agree with:
Shane J made peace with Amanda anyway, and then set out to the garden in order to clear the air with Ann once and for all.
"I'd like to say, thank you for being here in the house and thank you for being you," Shane J told her. "I am a young person who is passionate about things, and I know I have brought lots of deep and heavy conversations to you.
"But I do appreciate you being so respectful and willing to have those kinds of conversations."
"Oh, that's very kind of you," Ann smiled.
This was quite a sharp turnaround for Ann, who'd earlier complained in the Diary Room about Shane J trying to provoke political debates.
"Amanda and Wayne [Sleep] do not regard the Big Brother house as a platform solely about gay rights," she'd claimed. "It's about people… Shane has adopted a polite, but confrontational attitude almost throughout."
Ann went on to say: "I don't judge any of my friends. It doesn't matter if if you're black, white, old, young, gay, straight. It doesn't matter what you are, as long as you're a decent human being, who is kind to others.
"The ironic thing is that Shane J was going round with a shirt saying, 'Be Kind'. I did rather laugh at that later on."
As you can imagine, the contradictory nature of those comments got a lot of reaction from viewers as well:
Celebrity Big Brother airs its 90-minute eviction special on Tuesday at 9pm on Channel 5, with Rylan Clark-Neal airing all of the fallout at 11.35pm on Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
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