{"id":45873,"date":"2014-01-06T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=45873"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:06:57","slug":"channel-5-celebrity-big-brotherevander-holyfield-gays-disabilities-shocked-luisa-zissman-showbiz-news-45873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/channel-5-celebrity-big-brotherevander-holyfield-gays-disabilities-shocked-luisa-zissman-showbiz-news-45873\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 5 Celebrity Big Brother:Evander Holyfield compares gays with disabilities &#038; Shocked Luisa Zissman \/ Showbiz News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45885\" title=\"Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman\" alt=\"Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman-198x220.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-Evander-Holyfield-Luisa-Zissman-325x360.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Ex-boxing champion Evander Holyfield has been compared in the UK Channel 5 reality show &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother&#8221; gays with disabilities. Even during the broadcast, there was a fierce rebuke for a 51-year-olds. Many observers are now calling for his expulsion from the program.<\/h1>\n<p>After anti-gay slogans on British television , the former professional boxer Evander Holyfield is coming under fire . In the reality TV show &#8221; Celebrity Big Brother &#8221; of the U.S. America Santander homosexuals had compared with disabilities and refers to them as &#8221; not normal&#8221;. They could change their sexual orientation if they wanted to .<\/p>\n<p>The 51- year-old had been warned it of the producers of the Channel 5 show. His expression was extremely offensive to many people , he was told , according to &#8221; Daily Mirror &#8221; .<br \/>\nFor some observers , however, the snub did not go far enough : they are now demanding the expulsion Holyfield from the television format . &#8221; Shame&#8221; , tweeted about the<\/p>\n<p>British singer Boy George : &#8220;I&#8217;ve admired Mr. Evander Holyfield as he seemed to be honorable I was sure that he is cool, clever and a really big one . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stunned gave himself on Twitter Ian Hyland, television critic for the &#8220;Daily Mirror&#8221; . &#8220;I can not believe that Evander Holyfield was not thrown out ,&#8221; he wrote . &#8221; Channel 5 has really messed up . &#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Channel 5 Celebrity Big Brother:&#8221;Right or wrong things&#8221;<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45886\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Evander-Holyfield-Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45886\" title=\"Celebrity Big Brother - Contestants Enter The House\" alt=\"Celebrity Big Brother - Contestants Enter The House\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Evander-Holyfield-Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Evander-Holyfield-Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Evander-Holyfield-Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-280x176.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Evander-Holyfield-Celebrity-Big-Brother-Channel-5-571x360.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrity Big Brother &#8211; Contestants Enter The House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The news agency Press Association According to Holyfield had entertained with &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother&#8221; contestant Luisa Zissman about a possible coming-out gay boxer in front of the camera. Here, the Americans had made it clear that he did not consider homosexuality to be normal. &#8220;The Bible tells us that there are right and wrong things,&#8221; explained the self-confessed Christian.<\/p>\n<p>This compared Holyfield homosexuals explicitly disabled . If one is born as a deformity ? &#8221; What do you do ,&#8221; he asked rhetorically &#8211; and provided the answer to this with the same: &#8220;You go to a doctor and can treat you ! &#8221; Zissman tried several times without success , according to Press Association , to change the subject .<\/p>\n<p>When the ex-boxer had to appear to repeat the so-called Diary Room later and was admonished by the editors for his statements , he gave himself meekly &#8211; and hinted that he forgot the cameras around them. &#8220;It was just a conversation that we had ,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted her to say my opinion. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45887\" alt=\"Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother-163x220.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luisa-Zissman-Celebrity-Big-Brother-267x360.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Apprentice runner-up Luisa Zissman told Holyfield: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really bad that no one stands up and says it in the sports industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield, who famously had part of his ear bitten off by Mike Tyson, asked her: &#8220;What would be good about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Zissman replied: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s good to be open like that because it&#8217;s normal&#8221;, Holyfield said: &#8220;But that ain&#8217;t normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American attempted to explain his comment by saying &#8220;the Bible lets you know there&#8217;s wrong, there&#8217;s right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Zissman, 26, said: &#8220;That&#8217;s just the way some people are born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield replied: &#8220;It don&#8217;t make no difference. If you&#8217;re born and your leg were turned this way, what do you do? You go to a doctor and get it fixed back right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She tried to coax the retired boxer into changing the subject, telling him: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is an appropriate conversation to have in this house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield was then ordered to the Diary Room where he was told by the programme-makers: &#8220;Before you entered the Big Brother house the rules regarding unacceptable language and behaviour were explained to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night in a conversation with Luisa you expressed the view that being gay was not normal and that it could be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Big Brother understands these are the views you hold, they aren&#8217;t the views that are held by a large section of society, and expressing these views will be extremely offensive to many people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you understand why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holyfield replied: &#8220;Yes I understand why. I thought I was just, I forgot about the thing. I was just telling her my opinion but it&#8217;s not like I was going to mention (it) to anybody else. It was just our conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-boxing champion Evander Holyfield has been compared in the UK Channel 5 reality show &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother&#8221; gays with disabilities. Even during the broadcast, there was a fierce rebuke for a 51-year-olds. 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