{"id":12473,"date":"2025-04-12T02:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12473\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:31:11","slug":"mickey-rourke-72-sparks-itv-cbb-ofcom-storm-as-complaints-flood-in-over-disgusting-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/12473\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke, 72, sparks ITV CBB Ofcom storm as complaints flood in over &#8216;disgusting&#8217; behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity Big Brother has faced a series of Ofcom complaints during the first week of its return to ITV \u2013 with the majority of those lodged aimed at Mickey Rourke.  <\/p>\n<p>During launch night, Rourke caused a stir just seconds after he stepped onto the platform as he left viewers in shock with his \u201cvile\u201d behaviour. <\/p>\n<p>Greeting host Will Best, Rourke quickly turned to co-host AJ Odudu, looked her up and down before offering his hand, twirling her around and slamming her body into his.  <\/p>\n<p>The star attempted to engage in a conversation with him, however,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/itv-mickey-rourke-outrage-celebrity-big-brother-uncomfortable-aj-odudu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Rourke continued to look her up and down and stare at her backside until she was forced to tell him: \u201cStop looking at me!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Odudu and Best tried to get Rourke inside the house, he remained in his place and told the former Strictly star: \u201cI wanna stay with you.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Best then took matters into his own hands and physically escorted him down the platform toward the doors, ensuring he made it into the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"596e7\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8f247997b111abb675d1457d0b612a00\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/big-brother.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Big Brother\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mickey Rourke was slammed for inappropriately staring at AJ Odudu <\/p>\n<p>ITV <\/p>\n<p>Odudu laughed off the moment and took his behaviour in her stride as the cameras rolled \u2013 before addressing the incident on Big Brother\u2019s sister show \u2013 Late and Live.  <\/p>\n<p>Guest Alan Carr commented: &#8220;Can we talk about Mickey Rourke looking at you? Wow, his eyes. Find someone who looks at you the way Mickey looks at you. His tongue was hanging out.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Odudu responded to the incident with humour: &#8220;It literally was. I was like, &#8216;You can&#8217;t afford these feathers, Mickey, no!\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Despite Odudu attempting to laugh off the incident, the studio booed the moment and left many watching at home to complain to Ofcom. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"e9b2f\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"368178592a3e6fe2c7dd8bac0b793996\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jojo-siwa.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"JoJo Siwa\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mickey Rourke insulted JoJo when he said he could make her straight against <\/p>\n<p>ITV <\/p>\n<p>Ofcom\u2019s weekly complaints report has recently revealed that the show has received 89 complaints for its debut episode, sparked by Rourke\u2019s actions.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Mirror, a representative of Ofcom confirmed: \u201cThe majority of complaints related to Mickey Rourke\u2019s behaviour towards AJ Odudu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the episode finished, fans predicted what the Ofcom report would say and vowed to make complaints, as one penned on X: \u201cWell\u2026 Mickey\u2019s just landed himself some Ofcom complaints.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>A second raged: \u201c@Ofcom @bbuk Mickey Rourke should be removed. Disgusting pervert.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Another person added: \u201c@Ofcom you need to investigate This kind of Behaviour from Any Celebrity Get Michael Rourke Removed from the CBB House for Inappropriately Touchy Behaviour Towards AJ Odudu.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Since his entry into the house, the Hollywood actor has caused chaos on multiple occasions and left fans very divided by his intentions. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3e897\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"c1a9e848c1aee28b5a8cd03bf2bd3108\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/donna-preston.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Donna Preston\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Donna was taken back when Mickey claimed &#8216;you are what you eat&#8217; to her <\/p>\n<p>ITV<\/p>\n<p>Rourke left JoJo Siwa in tears after he made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/mickey-rourke-itv-celebrity-big-brother-homophobia-jojo-siwa-row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homophobic comments toward he<\/a>r \u2013 including \u201cI\u2019ll vote the lesbian out first\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/jojo-siwa-partner-kath-ebbs-breaks-silence-mickey-rourke-homophobic-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referring to her as a f*g.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He later left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/mickey-rourke-fat-shaming-celebrity-big-brother-donna-preston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Preston stunned when he \u201cweight-shamed\u201d <\/a>her whilst she was wearing her LED face mask \u2013 telling the comedian \u201cyou are what you eat\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old went on to unknowingly offend Patsy Palmer after he complained about the food being made for them \u2013 without knowing she had been cooking for everyone. <\/p>\n<p>During last night\u2019s episode, Rourke broke a key rule within the Big Brother house after he protested against nominating anyone for the public vote as he didn\u2019t \u201cwant to upset anyone\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrity Big Brother has faced a series of Ofcom complaints during the first week of its return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[1456,4080,4781,77,208,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-12473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-big-brother","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-itv","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114322648862392325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}