CBB star Nicola McLean issues statement on Kim Woodburn after infamous row

Nicola McLean has spoken out about her Celebrity Big Brother rival Kim Woodburn, just weeks after the cleaner's shock death. The Page 3 legend, 43, had numerous explosive rows with the late How Clean Is Your House? star during their time on the programme in 2017.

Fans of the reality show will remember that Kim, who died in June at the age of 83 following a short illness, took umbrage with Nicola's career and claimed she had only "made a reputation by showing [her] knockers," before she claimed that the cleaner was a "nasty, evil and horrible" person. It sparked a rivalry that did not go away when the cameras stopped rolling. In April this year, she described her former co-star as an 'absolute horror', according to The Sun.

Asked if she now wishes things had turned out differently with Kim now she is no longer here, Nicola told The Mirror on behalf of WhichBingo: "I have no regrets whatsoever. No regrets at all, no. None at all."

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Nicola has become very much associated with the Big Brother franchise over the course of her career, having initially appeared on the celebrity version of the hit reality show in 2012 alongside the likes of Denise Welch and Natalie Cassidy.

She then returned for the All Stars vs New Stars in 2017, which is where she met Kim and lived with Jedward, Loose Women's Coleen Nolan as well as Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag amongst a host of others. She then went onto the eighteenth series of the civilian series as a VIP guest with Marnie Simpson and Gemma Collins. When asked what the appeal of Big Brother is after 25 years, she put it all down to the 'nosy nature' of the public as she spoke out on the viral romance of Love Island star Chris Huges andJoJo Siwa.

She said: "I think you've just got to look at Chris and JoJo. And that's exactly why. Because, unlikely and unexpected things happen in there. And it's a social experiment. And even when you put celebrities that you think you know everything about, you know you get the love story of the century which I'm obsessed with.

"Do you know what I mean? It's like, who would have thought it? And it was just so beautiful to watch. So I think it's just that, you now, we're watching people we think we know everything about and then unexpected.

"Things happen and we're all nosy. I mean, we're nosy by nature, I think. And it's like, you know, watching people in their own homes, it's just fantastic."

Nicola, who also competed on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, has made a media career out of being honest with her opinions.

Recently, she has joined Vanessa Feltz on her eponymous Channel 5 show, and admitted that she 'never worries' about the reaction she might get because everything comes from a good place to begin with.

She said: "I never get worried about getting cancelled because I think if it happens, it happens. I know that I'm never offensive. I know I'm an ally for the LGBTQ plus I. All of it. I've always been an ally, so I know that nothing I say will come from a bad place.

"And so I'm just happy to say to always speak my truth, because I know there's, there's never any intent there. So if I get cancelled for telling someone the truth, I'm happy. It's not a problem to me."

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