Bitter Celebrity Big Brother cast are targeting Ekin-Su for attention, slams her Traitors US best pal
EKIN-Su Culculoglu’s best pal from The Traitors US has launched a defence of the Celebrity Big Brother beauty after former housemates slated her – saying they’re targeting her for attention.
Gary Goldsmith has said he believes the Love Island winner is a fake, while Fern Britton nominated her and show legend Kim Woodburn yesterday issued a blistering takedown of Ekin, branding her a “ruthless game-player.”
Now American TV star Trishelle Cannatella has told The Sun’s Celebrity Big Brother Breakdown podcast, in association with Press Box PR, she reckons they are “bitter” and “women haters”.
Trishelle is great pals with Ekin after they bonded while filming the US version of The Traitors last year.
On Kim’s savage comments, Trishelle said: “It comes across to me as female misogyny and just women on women hating and I don’t like that at all.
“It’s interesting because Ekin said to me in the Traitors castle, ‘you’re a girl’s girl and you root for other women and I love that’ and she said that because that’s how she is.
“It’s really unfortunate that people are coming after her.
“I think it’s a bit of jealousy and I think the young, pretty girl unfortunately gets it more harshly.
“It is such hater behaviour, I just don’t understand it.”
Princess Kate’s uncle Gary has tarnished Ekin’s name since he was booted out in the first eviction.
Trishelle, who found fame on huge MTV shows The Real World and The Challenge, said: “The first person who is evicted from a competition show is the most bitter person, and they normally project that onto the most likeable person in the house and I’m just saying that because I’ve done a million of these shows.
“He’s just being a bitter Betty.
“Isn’t that why he’s there? Because he’s grabbing some headlines?
“In terms of being a game player, she’s not fake.
“I just feel like as a woman, we can’t win. Women are judged more harshly on television than men are.”
Early in her career Trishelle modelled for Playboy – so understands why Ekin is trying to leave her Love Island past behind.
She added: “Ekin-Su is growing her career path and so she’s like yes I did this, I was the beautiful girl on Love Island but that’s not who I want to be forever and I was the exact same way.”
