Marisha Wallace has reignited her feud with Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu after she became the fifth housemate to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house on Tuesday.
The theatre star came to blows in an explosive argument with the Love Island winner after Ekin-Su broke down in hysterical tears when Marisha picked her in the face-face nominations last week.
Ekin-Su, 29, stormed off to bed as Marisha, 38, followed her to apologise – as she raged about her reason for nominating her and branded her as ‘fake’ and a ‘gameplayer’.
Speaking about the incident on Late & Live, Marisha gave her side of the story as she revealed she didn’t quite trust Ekin-Su and reignited the feud between them.
As hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best brought up the argument, Will explained: ‘I sort of read it as maybe you had another reason but you were trying to put a nice spin on it.’
Celebrity Big Brother star Marisha Wallace has reignited her feud with Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu as she revealed she ‘didn’t trust’ the Love Island winner during her appearance on Late & Live on Tuesday
The theatre star came to blows in an explosive argument with the Love Island winner after Ekin-Su broke down in hysterical tears when Marisha picked her in the face-face nominations last week
‘That’s exactly what it was,’ confirmed Marisha, ‘I was trying to cushion the blow because I just felt, you know when your spidey senses go “bling-a bling-a ling”, I just felt that something wasn’t quite right.’
Referring to Fern Britton’s nomination speech where she accused Ekin-Su of wearing a mask, Marisha explained that this helped consolidate her own feelings.
‘It was when Fern said what she said, and then I thought “Oh wait a minute someone else feels the same kind of way”,’ Marisha revealed.
Clearing things up, AJ confirmed: ‘So what you are saying is that you had a genuine different reason for nominating Ekin-Su but you didn’t want to say it to her face’.
Marisha then added: ‘I didn’t know what to say in the moment. I didn’t know how to articulate it.
‘Maybe I was scared that she might turn on me on the other side.’
Will then probed: ‘So having thought about it what would you have said now, how would you have articulated it?’
Hesitating, Marisha explained: ‘Well I would have just said that when I heard you say some things in the house I just felt a bit wary of you as there were some things that you said that made me feel like maybe I couldn’t trust you so much.
Speaking about her feelings towards Ekin-Su, Marisha explained: ‘I was trying to cushion the blow because I just felt, you know when your spidey senses go “bling-a bling-a ling”, I just felt that something wasn’t quite right’
Clearing things up, AJ confirmed: ‘So what you are saying is that you had a genuine different reason for nominating Ekin-Su but you didn’t want to say it to her face’
Hesitating, Marisha explained: ‘Well I would have just said that when I heard you say some things in the house I just felt a bit wary of you as t here were some things that you said that made me feel like maybe I couldn’t trust you so much’
Marisha was left comforting the reality star, after her nomination left Ekin-Su in floods of tears
‘That’s what I should have said, but that’s how I felt in that moment. But after that happened we were crying like babies over a teddy bear.
‘But when you first meet these people you don’t know who to trust and after that I felt closer to her, I don’t know if she feels that way, I hope she does.’
‘Do you think she overreacted?’ asked AJ, ‘because you were very apologetic’.
Marisha replied: ‘I was very apologetic. In the moment it wasn’t just about the nomination. I think Ekin-Su has been through a lot in her life.
‘I think she’s been betrayed many times and in that moment it just felt like a betrayal of everything even though it is just a game.
‘And sometimes a trauma response will come out that way, and I totally get it because of the things she had told me in the past.
‘I just felt horrible in that moment because I know what that feels like, to know a friend of yours has betrayed you. I totally get it.’
Marisha and Zeze Millz (right) became the two latest stars to be booted from the Celebrity Big Brother house during Tuesday’s double-eviction
Asked whether she would have stuck with her decision to Ekin-Su, Marisha added: ‘I don’t know, I don’t know if I can say that, because I was going to nominate Fern but then I switched’.
Marisha and Zeze Millz became the two latest stars to be booted from the Celebrity Big Brother house during Tuesday’s double-eviction.
The pair received the least amount of public votes and left the show after viewers opted to save Fern and Nikita Kuzmin.
It comes just days before Friday’s live final, with hosts AJ and Will revealing only five contestants will make it, with one more being evicted on Wednesday.
CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER 2024: MEET THE LINEUP
SHARON OSBOURNE
AGE: 71
FAMOUS FOR: Being a member of the Osbourne family, married to rock legend husband Ozzy as well as being a judge on The X Factor.
GARY GOLDSMITH
AGE: 58
FAMOUS FOR: Being Kate Middleton’s ‘black sheep’ uncle.
EKIN-SU CULCULOGLU
AGE: 29
FAMOUS FOR: Winning Love Island in 2022
COLSON SMITH
AGE: 25
FAMOUS FOR: Playing Craig Tinker in Coronation Street
FERN BRITTON
AGE: 66
FAMOUS FOR: Nineties TV sensation, and acting as Phillip Schofield’s This Morning sidekick.
BRADLEY RICHES
AGE: 22
FAMOUS FOR: Starring in Netflix’s Heartstopper
MARISHA WALLACE
AGE: 38
FAMOUS FOR: Broadway actress and singer, with roles in Dreamgirls and Aladdin
LOUIS WALSH
AGE: 71
FAMOUS FOR: His stint as an X Factor judge following a prestigious career as a music manager to bands like Westlife and Boyzone.
DAVID POTTS
AGE: 30
FAMOUS FOR: Ibiza Weekender
ZEZE MILLZ
AGE: 35
FAMOUS FOR: Social media star
LAUREN SIMON
AGE: 47
FAMOUS FOR: The Real Housewives of Cheshire
LEVI ROOTS
AGE: 65
FAMOUS FOR: One of Dragons’s Den’s biggest success stories.
NIKITA KUZMIN
AGE: 26
FAMOUS FOR: Being a professional on Strictly Come Dancing
