COVER
GM: What do you think of Azealia
Banks outburst?
MV: I don’t know what she’s going
through. I only know her to have one song,
and I love that song. I think anger and rage
is at the root of it, because all of my gay
friends call each other the ‘F’ word. I don’t,
and she being a female shouldn’t so it’s
wrong and it’s offensive. If she were a gay
man and said it with the same venom it
would still be offensive. I wish her well but
I don’t know what she’s doing with that
attitude. Who’s booking her? I just wish
somebody could sit down with her and say
‘girl, it’s not ok’. By the way I think the gay
community are the only people booking
her so I don’t understand that, what are
you doing?
GM: How did you find Celebrity Big
Brother?
MV: It was definitely surreal. I had a really
good time and I’m glad I did it. I did it for
me and for the gays.
GM: Are you still friends with Katie
Hopkins?
MV: No. I told her when we were leaving
the house, “you have the perfect
opportunity now. Everybody loves you,
you can change your whole thing you
know? But, if you cause some shit I’m
gonna call you out on it”. About three or
four time she did and then she just wasn’t
answering my texts or tweets. Her feelings
are hurt because I called her an idiot in a
public issue, because what she’s doing with
all these people is not helpful it’s hurtful.
You can’t say you want to be a gay icon on
one hand and then support Dolce and
Gabbana on the other. It just doesn’t make
sense. And the Holocaust comments, the
immigration comments, it’s just too much
for me.
GM: Do you think she does it on
purpose?
MV: Yes she does it on purpose because
the person I met on Big Brother is the
person I love. That’s the real Katie
Hopkins. It makes it worse because she’s
doing it for money. I believe she’s a really
great person, but I can’t forgive. I’m done
now with making excuses. She can still be
her and I’ll still be me and if I see her it’ll
be “hi”, but I can’t co-sign the shit. I can
over look a majority of it because it’s
ridiculous, but she crosses the line. At one
point in the house she wanted something
from me and I said you have to say that
you love Glasgow, because of the whole
Scottish thing, and she said it, but they
didn’t show it. It’s such a shame as she
really is a nice person and she’s ruined it
with this public persona when she had
every opportunity to turn it around. When
she saw that she didn’t win she went balls
to the wall.
GM: Do you think that’s what it was?
MV: Yes completely if she’d won I think
she would have been more the person we
saw. I made her a more likeable person
that’s for sure (laughs).
Michelle has a brand new
book The Diva Rules and a
UK book tour. Dates are
available on her website.
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