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.
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Who is Donna Preston?
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.