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Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has pulled out of a planned TV interview at the last minute after a dramatic time on Celebrity Big Brother.
The Love Island star, 29, was evicted from the CBB house last week and was supposed to talk to Lorraine Kelly on her ITV chat show on Monday.
However Lorraine revealed just minutes before the show was due to start that Ekin was not going to be there.
Speaking to Susanna Reid and Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain, Lorraine was excitedly asked about the interview she was set to have with the reality star.
However a bewildered Lorraine replied ‘I thought [she would be here] but alas, no.’
‘I don’t know what’s happened, I don’t know,’ she added. ‘We’re trying to find out.’
She said the production team were ‘trying to find out what happened’ and reiterated Ekin ‘was due to come in’.
Lorraine and Susanna went on to discuss Ekin’s time on Celebrity Big Brother, including her bombshell appearance on Late and Live after her eviction.
In the interview, she claimed the show had been edited to make her look a certain way.
‘You haven’t seen everything, they’ve cut stuff out,’ Ekin-Su insisted, adding ‘I’m just hurt that I wasn’t portrayed as myself on the show.’
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However hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best were also quick to point out that Ekin-Su had just left the house herself, and so hadn’t yet watched anything back or knew what had made it to screens, as well as noting that everything shown had come from Ekin-Su’s own mouth.
Susanna and Lorraine joked that they were happy to host live TV shows as they couldn’t blame anything on the edit, and essentially what you see is what you get on their shows.
It comes after Ekin-Su’s family pleaded with Celebrity Big Brother fans to stop sending her online abuse.
During her time in the house, they said in a social media statement: ‘Last night was a really sad episode to watch. Ekin-Su has always cared and worn her heart on her sleeve and last night we saw that.
‘What made last night a thousand times harder though is seeing and listening to hateful comments, trolling, name calling and physical abuse threats. Nobody deserves this behaviour and to read some of what we did last night.
‘@bbuk is a reality entertainment show that is edited to entertain us as viewers. We see an hour of 24 hours each day and the show is a social experiment that has been known to heighten emotions.
‘We would like to thank those of you that have supported Ekin-Su. The love and kind words haven’t gone unnoticed!
‘Please remember, in a world where you can be anything, be kind. Love always, Team Ekin-Su x’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV and ITVX.
