Galloway falls out with BB housemates

It was daggers drawn on Celebrity Big Brother as George Galloway fell out with his fellow housemates.

During a night of furious arguments, the Respect MP first rounded on Chantelle and Preston.

He was livid that the pair had been treated to luxury food and drink in a secret room as part of their last task, which saw them made directors of the Big Brother Bank.

“If I’d have been called in there I would have stood ramrod straight, refused to sit down, refused to eat, refused to drink, refused to smoke. I would have said ‘you brought me here under duress, but I will refuse to partake in things that the others are not allowed’,” he declared in a speech reminiscent of his performance before the US Senate.

“We were playing a game,” an exasperated Chantelle told him.

“Are you saying you wouldn’t have had any of that stuff?” she asked.

“I would not!” Galloway roared.

“Well, I really wish you’d done the task instead of us then,” she shrugged.

Unbeknown to Chantelle and Preston, their discussions about the other housemates had been broadcast on the plasma screen.

Galloway raged at Preston: “You’re a sneak and a liar and you’re exposed to the world as a sneak and a liar.

“You float around promiscuously – stroking, metaphorically or literally, everybody’s ass to protect your own. We saw on the screen your real character portrayed for all to see. And that’s my last word.”

It was far from his last word.

When Galloway was reminded he had been banned from nominating for discussing the other housemates, he bawled at Preston: “Pipe down, Mr Indignation. We’ll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman’s club.”

But Chantelle and Preston were not the only housemates to get an earful from Galloway.

The MP for Bethnal Green and Bow then turned on his former friend Michael Barrymore.

“You never let anyone speak. Now you’re going to let me speak,” he told Barrymore.

“I was close to you, Dennis was close to you, and you stabbed both of us over your mania for hoarding cigarettes. You’re a real cigarette addict and you ought to address the fact that you’ve no loyalty to anybody.”

Galloway went on to criticise the former TV entertainer for failing to support him when he was barred from nominating.

“You sat schtum and said nothing. You care about no one except yourself. You’re the most selfish, self-obsessed person I’ve ever met,” he stormed.

Their argument went on for 20 minutes with Galloway claiming: “I cared a lot about you. You stabbed me in the back.”

Barrymore told him: “You’re going to be sorry for what you said to the kids, and you’re going to be sorry for what you started here tonight.”

Former Baywatch babe Traci Bingham piped up: “As Rodney King said, can’t we all just get along?”

Big Brother rewarded the housemates for passing their task by throwing a party in which they each received a personal gift of something they might be missing during their time in the house.

Galloway received a copy of the Communist manifesto.

Barrymore got a mime artist outfit while Chantelle received roller skates and a gold hula hoop, and Traci was delighted to get a set of hair straighteners.