'Celebrity Big Brother': Nicola McLean 'Almost Pulled Out Of New Series At Last Minute'

Nicola McLean nearly pulled out of re-entering the ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ house at the last minute, reports have claimed. 

The model was one of the former contestants who were unveiled as ‘All Star’ housemates during Tuesday (3 January) night’s launch show.

However, a source has told The Sun Nicola held “crisis talks” with her husband, footballer Tom Williams, prior to her appearance, wanting to back out of a second stint on the Channel 5 reality series.

“Nicola completely lost her confidence and almost backed out of ‘CBB’ at the last minute,” the insider told the paper. 

“Last time she was on the show, she had an awful time with some of her housemates, and she is scared it could happen again.”

“Everyone has fully supported her and convinced her to go back into the ‘CBB’ house after the awful experience that she had in there the last time.”

Nicola addressed the problems in her marriage in her introductory VT, after it was revealed Tom had cheated on her in 2015, and it seemed his infidelity caused some of her ‘CBB’ doubts.  

“Nicola has stepped out of the public eye for the last two years after a lot of difficult personal problems,” the source said. 

“She made a decision not to go to celeb events or speak to the press so that she could give her marriage a proper chance under normal circumstance.”

The star previously claimed appearing on the 2012 series of ‘CBB’ was “the worst decision of my life”.

Asked why she’d decided to return by host Emma Willis during the live launch show, she made a jibe about former ‘CBB’ presenter, Brian Dowling.