India Willoughby has claimed that Rachel Johnson was the ‘architect of her demise’ during her short time inside the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The transgender star was the first celebrity to be voted out of the CBB house, and appeared on The Wright Stuff after tweeting that she had been “played like a fiddle by a massive manipulator” during her time in the house.
Rachel is the sister of Boris Johnson, and the daughter of last year’s I’m a Celebrity contestant Stanley Johnson – who also happened to be on the Wright Stuff panel during India’s appearance.
“I think I do need to set the record straight and I’m sorry that Stanley is here because hes a lovely gentleman and I am a massive massive fan,” India said before turning to Stanley. “But the architect of my demise was sadly your daughter.”
“Within an hour or so of actually being in the house I was being mis-gendered left, right and centre. I started off politely just pointing out the reasons why that was inappropriate but it continued.
“There was this undercurrent which I felt from the start, and because of what Rachel was doing, the mis-gendering – and Ann – it marked me out as the runt of the litter.
“Obviously if you’re constantly being questioned whether you’re ‘he’ or ‘him’, then you are going to reaffirm your gender, you’re going to point out that’s not appropriate,” she continued.
India also alleged that she was “egged on” by Rachel, “Rachel was saying, ‘Show me your bazookas’, she’s on camera doing that.”
“She was egging me on – ‘Are they real, can I have a look, can I have a touch’. Having told her repeatedly that I’m a woman, I’m a she, I just got tired of verbally doing it and I thought I’m just going to let my body speak for itself.
“The well of potential goodwill in that house has been poisoned early on, and it’s difficult and maybe its only something as a person who’s transgender would understand.”
Mark also brought up India’s ‘drag phobia’, and questioned whether it was genuine or not after old photos of her posing with drag queens at an event surfaced on social media.
“I didn’t know the drag queens were going to be there on that day, but if I’m at an event on that day and the organiser says ‘Look we’d like to get some PR shots, can you go over there and have your picture taken with them’, I’m going to do it,” she explained.
