Evander Holyfield claims being gay is 'not normal'.

[RandySF]

Evander Holyfield faces calls to be thrown out of Celebrity Big Brother after likening homosexuality to a 'handicap', insisting on the Channel 5 reality show that people choose to be gay.

Summoned to the Diary Room, the 51-year-old was told that his language was offensive after remarks made to fellow housemate Luisa Zissman after she asked whether many boxers have come out.

But the ticking off has not satisfied viewers discussing the programme on social media, with many calling for the former world heavyweight boxing champ to be booted off the show.

CBB spin-off show presenter Rylan was among those to let rip on Twitter, branding Holyfield's comments as "disgusting" - before apparently deleting his reaction.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/celebrity-big-brother-being-gay-2993538

[Siwsan]

1. Well, I don't think punching someones face into a bloody pulp for big money is normal

Guess it's a perspective thing.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Beat me to it (no pun intended)

[warrior1]

3. We all think alike

[rurallib]

4. Getting your head bashed in for 20 years is probably good training

for a thought leader.
What else you got Evander?

[Skittles]

5. I don't think beating up people for sport is normal

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Bookmarking.

[PeteSelman]

7. Being punched in the head eight thousand times is not conductive to rational thought.

And he's always been one of those super Christy guys.

What's ironic is that he has like ten kids by eight different women or something like that. God loves that.

[dsc]

9. actually the old testament

kind of endorsed that.

[PeteSelman]

10. Perhaps.

Why do all these Christians only follow the Old Testament? The new is all the Jesus stuff.

[jmowreader]

21. There's not nearly enough fire and brimstone in the NT

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. The Correct Answer Is...

who cares what this punch drunk palooka has to say. This is one of the major problems with our society today. We grant importance to any moron who can perform some type of stupid human trick and then pay attention to any utterance they may make. And just what the hell is Celebrity Big Brother anyway?

[Vashta Nerada]

11. It's obvious he's been punched in the head a few too many times.

[dionysus]

12. cut him some slack, he had a career of getting punched in the head.

I wouldn't think he'd be capable of much enlightened thought at this point.

[cvoogt]

13. Like he chooses to be stupid?

Hmm.

[BlueCaliDem]

14. He's entitled to his opinion, but facts based on science and just good ol' common sense

defy that opinion.

Homosexuality is as normal, as common, as equal as heterosexuality, and as old as the dawn of man.

[Rhythm]

15. Wasn't his "15 minutes" up a while ago?

Just sayin'...

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[Shandris]

18. He feels entitled to steal 5 minutes...

...from each person he knocked out. It's in his private rule book on fame or something, I guess.

[BlueStater]

16. Are they sure it was his ear that was bitten off and not a chunk of his brain? N/T

[exboyfil]

17. 11 or is 12 children with 6 different women

is normal though?

[SidDithers]

19. Evander Holyfield is a fucking idiot...nt

Sid

[xfundy]

20. It's quite possible this was a PR move.

Planted, suggested by handlers to piss off the damn libruls and pretend to "defend BabyJesus™" and get some press perhaps leading to a (slurring) talking head position on Fox Noise.

Look at what the hate did for Dickhead Dynasty.

The RW know that if they can piss us off, their base, or "queda," (sp?) which is what the word means, will laugh and roll around in their own excrement while staying tuned, keeping the ratings up, and imagine they've won some sort of "victory" without lifting a cheeto-stained finger, and, bonus, they helped out Jeebus, who's obviously too weak/invisible/nonexistant to do his own fighting.

I'm not suggesting we ignore the insults; I don't know the answer, but we have been portrayed as "satan" so often that these morons cheer for wins for their side just as they do for sports teams.