Celebrity Big Brother is back on our screens — it's only been a few days, but the drama is already kicking off. And not always in a good way. Donna Preston has already found herself at the centre of a pretty unsavoury controversy.
Since the show premiered on April 7, fans have been shocked to hear some of Mickey Rourke's comments. First, he left JoJo Siwa in tears after making some pretty heinous homophobic slurs.
Then, he began fat-shaming Preston. While the actress was wearing an LED mask for her “neck wrinkles,” he chimed in, “Maybe you should just run around the block instead for 10 minutes.”
Preston replied, “Yeah I am getting a little turkey neck,” before Rourke said, “Comes with the territory... it's like what they say ‘you are what you eat.’”
Naturally, fans were appalled.
As she makes headlines for her appearances in the show so far, here's a little more about Preston and where you may have seen her before.
From soap stars to talk show hosts and Love Islanders.
Preston is a 38-year-old actress from York who has been appearing in TV shows and films for the past couple of decades.
She got her start with roles in films like Dirt Money, Set the Thames on Fire and Rough and Ready. She went on to appear in Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Brassic and Apocalypse Wow. You might have also spotted her in an uncredited role in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald or as Abi's friend Den in a 2018 episode of Coronation Street.
Preston is currently promoting The Sandman, the Netflix show in which she appears in two episodes as “Despair" and Good Omens, in which she plays Mrs. Sandwich alongside David Tennant.
Preston has also worked as a screenwriter, having written the mini series Relationshop, the series Fully Blown and the series Dick in Ibiza.
Over the past few years, Preston has made several other celebrity appearances on reality TV, appearing in The Weakest Link, Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity Gogglebox and Pointless Celebrities, amongst other shows.
Preston opened up about her family life in Celebrity Big Brother, sharing that her sister had been dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis for the past year.
His comments reference the harmful idea that queer people — and lesbians specifically — can be “turned straight”.
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