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Angellica Bell could finally address her shock axe from the Martin Lewis Money Show Live during her stay in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The 49-year-old presenter is joined by a star-studded (and chaotic) cast including JoJo Siwa, Pasty, EastEnders’ Patsy Palmer, actress Donna Preston and former Tory MP Sir Michael Fabricant on the ITV reality series.
And the CBBC icon’s husband Michael Underwood – who pivoted from a career as a TV presenter to teaching primary school – is keeping fans abreast of all the Angellica updates while she is in the house.
The pair have been married since 2010 and share two children together who Michael joked he would have to ‘keep alive’ while the media personality was away filming.
Now, in a social media video (launching a series analysing every episode of the new season), Michael hinted that we could see a new side to Angelica that doesn’t always ‘come through’ when she’s on our screens.
In 2023, there was uproar when she abruptly departed her hosting gig on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live and joined Channel 5’s rival rebranded Gadget Show – Shop Smart, Save Money.
She was replaced by former Olympian and broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye instead.
In his new video, Michael said: ‘Now obviously it would be foolish not to say she’s the underdog in this team, but I hope she goes in there and shows you what I see every day and have seen every day since we met 25 years ago, and what I’ve seen every day since we’ve been married.
‘Just that kind, funny, straight-talking person and I hope you get to see that, because I think in all the other stuff she’s done on TV, that’s not always come through, because of the type of show that she’s working on.’
On TikTok one fan then commented: ‘Why did she stop working with Martin Lewis? I thought they were great together.’
To which Michael replied: ‘It’s not for me to say but she might talk about it on Celebrity Big Brother.’
At the time, ITV insisted that the broadcaster’s relationship with Angellica had remained ‘amicable’ and sources claimed Martin was ‘staying out of it’ as it was not in his hands.
As an insider explained there were reportedly concerns over ‘editorial contradictions’ given the similarity of Angellica’s new gig with Channel 5 and the work she was doing on the ITV show with Martin.
She was seemingly ‘bumped off air with no warning’ just days before filming was set to begin, despite co-hosting the ongoing series since 2017, leaving staff ‘stunned’per The Sun.
A year prior, in 2022, she had nothing but praise for the financial expert who also appears on Loose Women, This Morning and Good Morning Britain to dispense his money-saving hacks.
She told Metro: ‘What he does is incredible! And we talk behind the scenes, he is working tirelessly to help people.
‘When the show used to be out, we’d be recording and people would come up, we would stop recording and be like “Angellica do you mind” and he’d go and talk to those people.
‘He just wants the best for everyone and he’s got a great heart.’
Celebrity Big Brother has had a turbulent start after Mickey Rourke sparked outrage for his ‘creepy’ behaviour towards host AJ Odudu during the launch episode.
Meanwhile, viewers are sceptical of the apparent ‘showmance’ between Chris Hughes and Ella Rae Wise, thinking it could have been pre-planned.
Celebrity Big Brother continues at 9pm on ITV tonight.
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