Fern Britton has spoken her opinions on Donald Trump unequivocally, stating that she hopes his wife, Melania Trump, is seeing another guy.
The 66-year-old This Morning star and Celebrity Big Brother 2024 competitor joins Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Nikita Kuzmin, and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu in the ITV reality programme.
On Sunday’s episode, the housemates heard Sharon blow the beans once more about public personalities she’d met during her glamorous Hollywood career.
Sharon mentioned participating on Celebrity Apprentice with the former US president, and the subject shifted to his wife, Melania Trump.
Sharon clarified that she meant Trump’s present wife, Melania, who she described as ‘beautiful’. Trump has had three marriages.
Fern then jumped in and said she hoped Melania was ‘being paid a great deal of money to smile and be nice. I love it when he tries to hold her hand and she moves away.’
‘But she’ll be making a lot of money. And hopefully she has some nice guy or whoever on the side.’
For her part, Sharon said Trump had been ‘very nice with me, extremely nice, very charming’ — but added ‘he’s the sort of man that won’t talk to you if he doesn’t think you’re a pretty woman.’
‘He treats women like,’ she went on before making a sweeping motion. ‘If he thinks you’re a pretty woman, he will talk to you, but if you’re not,’ and she swept the air again.
And Louis Walsh went all in, declaring he is ‘allergic to Donald Trump,’ calling him ‘awful’ and an ‘egomaniac’.
Not what we thought Fern and Sharon would bond over… #CBBUK pic.twitter.com/3Xuj8FXQo2
— Celebrity Big Brother UK (@bbuk) March 10, 2024
But Sharon had the last word as she finished the conversation by saying: ‘I just thank God he’s 78. Because we won’t have to suffer him long.’
The wild portion was extremely popular with those watching from home, and X lit up with people offering their comments, notably on Fern’s aspirations for Melania.
User Jameela declared ‘Fern you are the people’s princess I love you’, and Lewis John Yule said they were ‘obsessed with [Fern] hoping Melania has a bit on the side.’
Ryan Love wrote ‘Fern please!,’ and @AliceBrine said it was ‘the hun quote of the year’.
Sharon took part in The Celebrity Apprentice on NBC in 2010, coming in third place – after famously declaring her fellow contestants were as entertaining as ‘watching ice melt’.
Trump, who served as president of the United States from 2016 to 2020 and whose failure to be re-elected sparked a dramatic rebellion at the US Capitol in January 2021, is now preparing to run for president again, this time against Democrat Joe Biden.
Melania and Trump’s marriage has been the subject of much public scrutiny, with various recordings circulating over the years that show the former First Lady stepping away from him when he tries to grasp her hand.
This year, there were concerns about Melania’s whereabouts because she had not been seen with her husband, but she did attend a banquet at Mar-a-Lago.
Her absence from a family Christmas photo was due to her mother, Amalija Knavs, being in the hospital.Melania gave a poignant eulogy during her mother’s burial on January 18.
Melania has not appeared on the campaign trail with her husband, although there are indications that she may shortly join him as the November 2024 election approaches.
Celebrity Big Brother returns to ITV and ITVX on Monday at 9pm.
Source My Celebrity Life.