Rufus Hound quit Celebrity Juice over explosive row with Celebrity Big Brother’s Kim Woodburn
The actor and comedian said the show was edited to leave out the argument
RUFUS Hound has revealed that he quit Celebrity Juice following an explosive row with Kim Woodburn.
Speaking to stand-up comedian Richard Herring on his podcast, which was broadcast in 2013, Hound said he had no choice but to leave after a ‘personal’ row spiralled out of control.
This is the same row Phillip Schofield referred to in his interview with Woodburn on This Morning yesterday.
Hound, 37, was a regular panellist on Keith Lemon’s TV panel game show, and got into an unexpected slanging match with the Celebrity Big Brother star.
And he told Herring that not only did he feel “marginalised” on the show, but the lack of support from the producers helped make his mind up to leave.
He said Kim was chatting to host Lemon who asked her if she had much work coming up. When she replied that she didn’t think she was wanted on the TV any more, Hound said to her: "Don't put yourself down. People will always need a cleaner.”
But Kim didn’t see the funny side and retorted: "When I want an opinion of a fat man, I'll stand outside Gregg's.”
Hound said her response was “ a proper f*** you, an old-fashioned f*** you” even though he hadn’t meant anything insulting by his comment.
Adding that it then “spiralled out of control”, he added: “It ended up really horrible. She was trying to be deliberately personal, and by the point it got to that place, I was like, ‘OK, because I'm a stand-up comedian and if you want to start heckling, I'm good at this’.
“And so I was personal back. She basically kept saying I was fat. But I did end up saying, ‘that's a bit rich coming from a woman who looks like a face drawn on a deflating party balloon’.”
The comedian then told Herring that Kim left the building without offering an apology but producers insisted he said sorry to her.
He said he would as long as he was given a copy of the tape of the row, which was edited out of the final show that was aired.
But he said he never saw the tape, and added: “They had this sense of, I should be grateful of being on this big hit show, but what they never understood was, the thing I set out in comedy wasn't about being on a show like Celebrity Juice.”
After he was advised to take a fortnight off to “think about it”, Rufus quit instead.
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