Denise Welch won’t take back ‘passive aggressive’ dig at Celebrity Big Brother housemate Coleen Nolan during CBBBOTS appearance
TV veteran has set the record straight about her controversial comments
DENISE Welch is adamant she meant what she said when she appeared to take a swipe at Celebrity Big Brother housemate Coleen Nolan during an appearance on CBBBOTS.
The TV veteran seemed to make a dig about Coleen on the show, and she has now set the record straight about her controversial comments.
The pair famously fell out in 2013 over some comments Coleen, 51, made about mental illness in a magazine interview.
Denise appeared to revive the feud earlier this month when she appeared on Rylan Clark-Neal's Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side.
As Rylan brought up Coleen's tendency to chat about her housemates behind their backs, he said to Denise: "You know her better than anyone, come on."
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As Denise hesitated, Rylan and the crowd immediately shouted out, to which Denise said: ";I think she has got a strategy."
She added: "Coleen is very good at the passive aggressive things.
Denise has now opened about her remarks, insisting she stands by her comments and meant what she said.
When asked whether she regretted the remarks, she told : "What I said on Bit On The Side was talking about people as housemates…
"No I don’t regret it, I said what I meant..."
Denise also revealed she had not been asked to take part in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, but wouldn't do it "in a million years".
She added: "No, I won it. There would be no point in going in it again and not winning. It was a hollow victory…
"I’m more than happy watching it at home."
Coleen and Denise previously fell out three years ago after Coleen gave her views on mental illness in an interview with Best magazine.
She said at the time: "Obviously I feel sorry for anyone who, through no fault of their own, suffers depression.
"But I'd like to know how many celebs with a chemical imbalance in their brains have used drugs."
She later added: "Is it a coincidence Stephen Fry, Kerry Katona and Denise Welch have all admitted to cocaine use and are now bipolar, while others suffered depression and breakdowns?"
Denise later hit back at the hurtful comments in her column on the Birmingham Mail, saying: "'I’m not bipolar and I have made no secret of the fact that my descent into the hell of self-medication was a result of suffering depression and not the cause of it."
She added: "The fact that Ms Nolan had not heard of bipolar until a few years ago makes her unqualified to talk about the illness she clearly has no understanding of."