Heavyweight boxer Audley Harrison has admitted that he feels "uncomfortable" around transsexual boxing promoter Kellie Maloney in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
The 42-year-old previously worked with Maloney, formerly known as Frank, before he decided to undergo gender reassignment.
While on the Channel 5 reality show, the celebrity contestants were forced to nominate their fellow housemates for eviction face to face, and Harrison voted for Kellie.
The sportsman claimed that the outside world was ready to accept the promoter as a woman, before admitting that he sometimes feels uncomfortable around her.
Kellie later confronted Harrison by saying: "All I've asked for is tolerance and acceptance. I wish you would have spoken to me man to woman when I first came in the house said 'I've got an issue with you, and I am uncomfortable'. To be nominated because I'm transsexual I think is very wrong."
Harrison denied that he nominated Kellie because of her new identity, but did reiterate that he feels uncomfortable because he knew Maloney when he was living as a man.
Danielle Joynson
