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# Fans call for former Olympian and  current gender critic Daley Thompson to be booted from Celebrity Big Brother
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/fans-call-for-former-olympian-and-current-gender-critic-daley-thompson-to-be-booted-from-celebrity-big-brother/
- Published: 2025-04-09T10:51:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-09T10:51:40.000Z
- Description: Former Olympian and gender critic Daley Thompson has been slammed by fans of Celebrity Big Brother after clashing with RuPaul’s Drag Race star Danny Beard. Thompson, who wrote a feature in Daily Mail in 2023 titled, ‘If trans athletes can compete in female events, then women’s sport is finished’, ga
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Television, Big Brother, Danny Beard, LGBT, LGBTQ

Former Olympian and gender critic **Daley Thompson** has been slammed by fans of *Celebrity Big Brother* after clashing with *RuPaul’s Drag Race* star **Danny Beard**.

Thompson, who wrote a feature in *Daily Mail* in 2023 titled, ‘If trans athletes can compete in female events, then women’s sport is finished’, gave late entrant Beard a frosty reception.

Beard confided in comedian and actress **Donna Preston** about the situation. The drag star her that in the living room, they mistakenly thought **Mickey Rourke** was selecting them for a secret task, which prompted Thompson to say to Beard: “Not everything is about you”.

The star of *RuPaul’s Drag Race* told Preston: “I’m overthinking it. I’m gonna totally make an effort with him tomorrow, that’s it.”

However, in the diary room, Beard admitted: “I think I’ve tried to make an effort with everybody, but I heard Daley make a comment like, ‘Well, not everything revolves around you’ and, I don’t know if I’m overthinking it…

“I can sense or I feel like he’s a bit wary of me, and that’s fine because maybe I’m also a little bit wary of him.”

Taking to their X account, one fan penned: “I’m so glad Danny has Daley clocked so early on #CBBUK get him out first.”

Daley Thompson has been long accused of homophobia after wearing an offensive shirt mocking a fellow Olympian in 1984 that read: “Is the world’s second-best athlete gay”.

It was thought to be directed at US sprinter **Carl Lewis**, who was subjected to rumours about his sexuality at the time, although he has never spoken about it. Thompson denied this, saying it “could be anybody, Carl Lewis, anybody”.