Celebrity Big Brother's biggest scandals - from Roxanne Pallett to Jade Goody

The 24th season of is kicking off in just a matter of days on April 7. The show has a lot to live up to, with previous years showing off the wild behaviour celebs get up to behind closed doors. This year, ITV1 has put together an if rumours are to be believed, and the drama has started before the show has aired - with .

It will still be hard to reach the previous levels of shocking behaviour from past contestants, with the house having hosted some vile language and harassment alongside several walkouts and forced evictions. Here are some of the wildest moments from CBB over the years, from the funny to the unacceptable.

Jade Goody, 2007

One Celebrity Big Brother moment became so vile it caused diplomatic issues between the UK and India alongside being responsible for 45,159 Ofcom complaints.

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In the incident, , Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were accused of towards Indian actress during the firth series of the show, ganging up on her over the course of the time together.

The tension seemed to build over time and soon crossed the line, with Glamour model Danielle saying that Shilpa should "f*** off home." S Club 7 star Jo once noticed that Shilpa may have undercooked some chicken, and connected it to rude stereotypes about her race, claiming: "That's why they're all thin, because they're sick all the time, because they're ill."

In another blazing row, Jade said that Shilpa’s name was too hard to pronounce and referred to her as "Shilpa Poppadom,” alongside saying that the actress needed "a day in the slums."

The usual crowd waiting to greet evicted housemates was banned when Jade left the house, due to extreme backlash from the public after watching the horrific moments.

Advertisers pulled out of sponsoring the show, and Prime Minister was forced to address the issue after Indian foreign minister Anand Sharm voiced a complaint.

Roxanne Pallett, 2018

accused fellow housemate of punching her in the ribs in one shocking moment from CBB. The former actress referred to Ryan as a "woman beater" and broke down in tears in the Diary Room as she demanded he leave.

Big Brother later issued him with a formal warning, saying: "Big Brother noticed that whilst almost play fighting, you punched Roxanne in the ribs."

However, viewers at home didn’t see it that way, saying that Roxanne was purposefully trying to paint Ryan as abusive when it wasn’t the case.

Roxanne herself and stayed away from social media for a while, with Ofcom having received 25,327 after her worrying claim.

Coolio, 2009

is perhaps one of the most controversial stars to have appeared on CBB - so controversial that over the course of his 22-day stay.

Coolio himself , at one point boasting: "I'm a male chauvinist pig." Sugababes star Mutya Buena left the house in a rage, and said that Coolio was the cause of her leaving.

She blasted: "The producers should have stepped in to stop this earlier. Coolio is just a dirty old man who is old enough to be my father. He's a sex pest who would perv on me all the time.

“It just made my skin crawl. I do not know how he was allowed to get away with it, as far as I'm concerned he got away with murder."

Lucy Pinder had similar words to share after she was evicted, claiming: "I'd only been there 48 hours and he came out and told me, ‘I've never raped a woman... I've never had to.' He would say things like, ‘I'm going to elbow you in the face', or tell stories about having violent sex."

‘David’s dead!’, 2016

Not all of CBB’s most controversial moments were insulting, with one shocking scene still due to an unfortunately hilarious misunderstanding.

Just two days into the show, 's ex-wife, , was told that he’d died aged 69. Wanting to tell someone, she confided in American TV personality , simply telling her: “David’s dead.”

In a twist of fate, fellow housemate David Gest was ill at the time and resting in bed, with Tiffany immediately assuming his illness had overtaken him. “No he’s not!” screamed Tiffany, as she fell into Angie’s arms in full emotional breakdown.

Despite being told to keep quiet about it, Tiffany went and told the other housemates, saying: "She told me David just died and I can’t f**king hold this in by myself.”

The other celebs fell into similar fits of despair, and ran to where they’d last seen David in the bedroom - to and pulling a duvet over his head to block out the racket.

Christopher Biggins, 2016

shocked fans with his very bold takes on CBB, which for "offensive language" which could cause "widespread offence”.

In one moment the star spoke to his housemates about sexuality, and stated: "I think the worst type though is, I’m afraid to say, the bisexuals. What it is is people not wanting to admit they are gay.”

He then appeared to take umbrage with bisexual people again, when he called AIDS a "bisexual disease" during a wild outburst.

Just prior to his removal from the house, he also made a completely unacceptable ‘joke’ about Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust to Jewish housemate .

As the CBB celebs queued up to use the bathroom shortly after waking up, The Sun reported that he said to the former star: "You had better be careful or they will put you in a shower or take you to a room!”

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