Kelvin Fletcher has called his ex-co-star, Roxanne Pallett, ‘evil’ and questioned her motives after she accused Ryan Thomas of punching her during a play fight, leading to calls for his removal. The 35-year-old actress left the Celebrity Big Brother house this morning, with a spokesperson confirming to MailOnline: “Roxanne has decided to leave the BB House. The remaining housemates have been informed.”
Ahead of her exit, Kelvin, 34, took to Twitter to call Roxanne ‘calculated’ and ‘manipulative’ in the wake of the ‘punch’ row that took place on Thursday’s episode.
Tweeting to his 226K followers, he said: ‘She. Is. Evil.
‘She’s not ‘mentally ill’ or in need of ‘help’. That denounces that people with actual mental health issues are as vindictive and menacing as her. They are not. There is a big difference. That was calculated and manipulative beyond belief. Ryan ❤️.
‘Poor Ryan looks broken. What about HIS mental health?
Roxanne played Kelvin’s wife, Jo Stiles, on Emmerdale in 2008 after she married his character Andy Sugden.
Roxanne’s representative declined to comment when approached by MailOnline.
After the actress’ play fight with Ryan on Thursday, she told him that he ‘really hurt’ her before then heading to the bedroom to take a moment for herself and later asking for Big Brother to call her into the Diary Room.
While there she asked to speak with a producer off camera, explaining: ‘I just need to talk to somebody to production about something that’s just happened that made me really uncomfortable. I don’t really want to go any further and talk about it on camera like this.’
She also took contestant Ben Jardine aside on Friday’s episode, before he was evicted, and whispered: ‘Ryan punched me’.
After heading to the toilet for more privacy as they ‘felt they were being watched’, she appeared to break down as she told the reality star that the fight ‘wasn’t playful’ and he ‘punched her repeatedly in the ribs’.
Kelvin isn’t the only former co-star of Roxanne’s to lash out at her and Emmerdale actor, Danny Miller, who is a friend of Ryan’s, branded the actress a ‘compulsive liar’.
He said: ‘Roxanne’s a known, compulsive liar. Ryan wouldn’t harm a fly.
‘Horrible, attention seeking little liar. Goes from being upset & in pain to dancing & drinking – to going bed, crying she can’t sleep in the same room as Ryan, to worrying about being nominated? You be the judge #CBB.’
And Danny wasn’t the only one of Roxanne’s former co-stars to speculate over the incident, Charley Webb claimed that it is ‘worrying’ that Roxanne was being taken seriously.’
She added that when she watched the show back she didn’t believe anything had happened, before branding it ‘outrageous’.
Hayley Tamaddon, best known for playing Del Dingle in Emmerdale, also showed support for her pal Ryan on social media.