Celebrity Big Brother in fix row as fans claim Bradley Riches has ‘secret advantage’ after spotting link to show winner
CELEBRITY Big Brother has been caught up in a fix row as fans claimed that Bradley Riches has a 'secret advantage' because of his link to a previous show winner.
Bradley is buddies with Jordan Sangha, who won the show's first reboot last year.
The Netflix Heartstopper actor has been revealed as a cast member on the ITV show alongside big names like Love Island's Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and former This Morning host Fern Britton.
One fan went to X, previously known as Twitter, after seeing Bradley and Jordan, along with his boyfriend from his series, Henry Southan.
The user wrote: "Jenry hanging out with Brad Riches who plays James in Heartstopper when worlds collide."
Fans turned to Reddit when they saw Brad distancing himself from the pair, saying that they were doing so to avoid accusations of fix claims.
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One Reddit user penned: "Actor Brad Riches who had recently befriended Jenry is now rumoured for CBB. Strangely, they seem to have blocked/unfollowed each other today."
Another eagle-eyed fan wrote: "I follow both Jenry and Brad and when Jordan's latest smoking Instagram picture came on my feed, it said liked by Brad.
"Now all of a sudden the like is gone from the post, none of them follow each other and the tag is removed from Jordan's post with him in it.
"Have no idea what this means, maybe he is trying to temporarily distance himself from the previous winner, but if that was the case I'd think he'd ask Jordan to remove the photo of them.
"It seems strange there would be such a quick turnaround so hopefully theres no beef and they all know what's going on. Would hate to think he used them to become popular amongst bb fans or something."
Some disagreeing fans hit back with one writing: "Technically it could be producers telling them not to interact with each other at all to spoil launch day surprises.
"Would make more sense if this is already a clause in the contract."
Whilst another added: "I don't really know a lot about Brad, but he seems to have a pretty decent size online following of his own, so I don't think he would need to use others to gain popularity or votes.
"If he is in then the Heartstopper fans will likely be voting for him and that fandom is pretty big and dedicated
"I think it's probably more likely that they would want to create some sort of distance so that it doesn't appear that Brad would have an advantage/prior knowledge of what is going to happen in the house due to being friends with Jordan and Henry."
