Celebrity Big Brother runner-up Kirstie Alley says Roxanne Pallett drama was a "career-breaker"

Celebrity Big Brother runner-up Kirstie Alley has spoken about the Roxanne Pallett ‘punch-gate’ drama and her experience of it in the house, admitting it may be a “career-breaker”.

The latest series of the Channel 5 show was dominated by the saga, which saw Roxanne claim that Ryan Thomas punched her when footage showed him play-fighting. Roxanne eventually left the house and later apologised to Ryan.

Kirstie appeared on This Morning today (September 12) to talk about her run in the house, explaining that the housemates were unaware of the outside world’s reaction.

“When I found out what her actual accusation was, I realised that that was a career-breaker, that was a career-destroyer. It became serious business, and I felt like it was out of my realm to handle,” she said.

“My only advice to Ryan was, ‘Get to the producers,’ because at that time I’d heard she’d gone to the producers and gone to her manager. I go, ‘You run, run, you gotta go in there and handle this now.’

“And Nick [Leeson] was a big help to Ryan, I think he was really the person who said, ‘This is far beyond the scope of just having a chat or something.'”

Asked about seeing the footage after coming out of the house this week, Kirstie continued: “What I didn’t realise until yesterday was that I was even in the room. We were all jacking around like that, and that looks like he didn’t even make contact.

“But if he did, when I talked to Roxanne, I said when that happened I didn’t realise it was this point, this was so playing when that happened. I said, ‘What did you do?’ She said, ‘Ouch.’ I said, ‘Did he apologise?’ And she said, ‘No,’ and you can see that he does.

“So I said he didn’t apologise, she said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well that’s not true, this was playing around and he did apologise.’

“So I don’t know how that turned into what it turned into, but sometimes things mount and mount and mount, at the point I found out it was ‘get me to the producers and you say what happened’.”

The former Cheers star also admitted it was “48 hours” before the rest of the housemates knew what had happened and how serious it had become.

This Morning airs weekdays on ITV at 10.30am.

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