A few days in and Mickey Rourke is already bagging all the headlines on Celebrity Big Brother, after first behaving ‘inappropriately’ towards the show’s host AJ Odudu, and then making ‘homophobic’ comments to and about singer JoJo Siwa.

Here’s the footage if you missed it:

JoJo Siwa being subjected to homophobic bigotry from Mickey Rourke was a hard watch. #CBBUK pic.twitter.com/L4wR4IlJTU

— Love, Danny (@DannyWxo) April 9, 2025

And so, Mickey Rourke will most likely be the first housemate evicted from Big Brother at the first live eviction this Friday, but what does that mean for the £500,000 pay cheque he’s been promised for participating in the show?

Turns out he’ll get to keep every last penny, whether he’s evicted by the audience voting at home or kicked out for rule-breaking.

In fact, the only way Mickey Rourke would lose out on his half-a-million fee would be if he quit the show himself.

Easiest £500,000 of his career? It may just be. All he had to do was p1ss around in London with a bunch of celebrities who are way less famous than him for a few days, and he’s banked half a million. Which makes it quite surprising that ITV bosses haven’t figured out a way to protect him from eviction and keep him in there a little longer. In fact, they let JoJo Siwa give a ‘killer nomination’ which guaranteed that Rourke would be on the chopping block this Friday. How does that make business sense, from their perspective?

I guess they either feel that they got their money’s worth out of Rourke already, or are sweating any backlash from Ofcom or advertisers or whoever over what else the 72-year-old Hollywood legend might say or do in there. Isn’t the whole point of Celebrity Big Brother to get Z-listers and has-beens like Rourke to say and do outrageous things? The mind boggles.

For the transgender Big Brother contestant who wanted to spend the £100,000 prize fund on a designer vagina, click HERE.