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Um,
You were recently on the Big Brother UK here.
Yeah.
And it ended it very murky, murky.
circumstances. Yeah. Yeah. Can you shed some light on that? What exactly...
For those who sort of flirt with TV, what happened?
what really happened? - I have my own theory on why they kicked me out. I don't think it's any of the reasons they said it was.
I know something came out in the paper, whatever, but things came out in the paper about everybody.
You know?
And the thing that came out in the paper
this bullshit anyway, and it was refuted by anyone involved. So that's bullshit. I just think that
because I was so good at pissing everyone off. You have to remember I was in the other house, and then I went into the main house, and within a day I got four people to leave.
who like burst their way out the house. And then they gave me another tack and three or four of the guys in the house had threatened to punch me and all this shit. And I was causing so much trouble that the producers were saying to me,
You're causing a lot of trouble, but if a fight kicks off, you have to make sure you don't, you know, basically saying don't defend yourself.
Even they were saying, "If you're a calm guy, we can tell you're calculated, we can tell you're smart, you're never going to hit anyone first. But if someone swings at you, we want you to make it very clear you have to wait for security." I said, "No."
Someone swings at me, they're getting knocked the fuck out. The rules of Big Brother are, don't be violent. You should be telling them not to swing, not telling me not to retaliate. I can wait for security. Security can be two or three minutes away.
You know, I'm not going to dodge punches for two or three minutes like fucking Mayweather for the sake of some moron. He shouldn't be swinging me in the first place. And...
When I made that very clear to them, they just made up some bullshit and kicked me out. I think they'd fall over a 12-week period.
this guy being as smart as he is and those people being as stupid as they are, he's just going to wind one up to the point where they're going to,
attempt something ridiculous and they thought for the safety of all involved
You better get him out of the house, and that's what happened.
Yeah, I mean, you avoided going to Big Brother house for a good couple of years, haven't you?
Yeah, they asked me two or three years in a row. And I kept saying no, no, no.
Um, and then this time, uh,
And when they asked me again, because I never contacted them, they literally contacted me saying, please go in the house, da-da-da-da-da.
And we came to an agreement on a few things.
you know, a little bit of money for handling some stuff when I'm in there and XYZ. And I agree. So, but done now.
Go on. There's talks about me going in next year, but let's not talk about that yet. Let's see what happens. I think we already are talking about that. Your experience with reality TV, because that's how you got your Infusion contract, wasn't it? It was Infusion Reality.
- Correct, yeah, correct. - So are those the only two React TV things you've done, or you've done more than those?
I was on another one a long time ago called The Ultimate Traveler, which might still be on 4OD. I was about 22, where they got a bunch of people to travel around Indonesia on like 10 pound a day. I got an ulcer in my eye about three weeks in and had to leave. So I got an eye ulcer, which is the most painful thing I've ever been through in my life.
I've done that, my brother's done shipwrecked.
Yeah. Yeah. We're just, I don't know. We've managed to get ourselves on one of those lists that TV producers call and say, you know what? We need a big cocky bastard. Let's go.
call him. So just how it turns out. So where do you get your cockiness from? Your brashness or your arrogance, some might say. Is it from the American side of the family or the British side of the family? I really don't think I'm that bad.
I know everyone says I am, I don't think I'm that bad. I think if you look at what I say, and you analyze it for what it really is,
99% of the time,
it's not as bad as it initially appears. You know, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying what you think and being who you are.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with
you know, embracing your view on life. And I don't think there's anything wrong with saying, yeah, I'm successful. I've got money and I believe men are made to be with women. We're going to make you with men and I enjoy my life and I do what I want. And fuck you. And that's that's that's
That's what makes me happy and I don't think it's anyone else's business
telling me how I should or shouldn't do anything. So a lot of people, I think, you know, my personal view, I can't think of anyone on this planet I dislike.
Like there's no one on this planet I genuinely hate. And when I hear someone, when I hear about people who genuinely hate me, I think it's just,
They're more unhappy with their own achievements and they're more unhappy with their own life.
And they project that towards me because of what I have and what I've done.
I think you have to be very unhappy with who you are in yourself to hate somebody else. I don't hate anybody.
I'm happy. There's no one on this planet. I have any beef with it. I don't really give a shit about anyone. Even if you're not my friend, I don't care about you. You don't insist in my mind and don't think about you. But if you're sitting at home thinking, Tate's a cunt. I fucking hate my fucking... That's because you dislike something about your own life, not because you dislike something about my life. That's my personal opinion. Yeah, because before we were big brother, even amongst the kid boxing world, especially on this part, especially West Europe and UK, I mean, I see lots of things being said and I hear lots of things being said.
And, you know...
the name Andrew Tate as a very Marmite reaction you might even remember the story I recounted to you once about our first exchange and it's just like we've got to do certain things, when you're in the spotlight and you want to be successful, you want to make money
you have to promote yourself. And it's like, yeah, you have to be getting attention. You have to, you know, you have to put yourself out there. And if it's going to wind up a few people,
That's the stopping that happens.
Absolutely, and there's a lot of Marmite reaction and all this and people saying,
I've heard all the things like, "Oh, he has no respect. He's bad for the sport." How can I be bad for the sport? I'm from the UK and I've gone out there all over the world and whooped everyone's ass and won four world titles for the UK. How am I bad for the sport?
You know, like, how can I be bad for the sport? What's wrong with looking someone in the face and saying, fuck you, I'm gonna knock you out. Nothing. And I, like I said, I think the reason the people who dislike me for doing it are the people who are too afraid to do that themselves because they don't look stupid if they lose.
The people who dislike me talking about money are the people who are unhappy with how much they've got in their own bank.
It's all internal dislikes that they project at me.
I think anyone and all my friends and all the friends who have gotten to support and everything,
they're truly happy with who they are and what they've done. And I think if you're truly happy with who you are and what you've done, nothing I say can bother you.
If I can write something on Facebook,
And a couple words will make you that angry. You need to look at yourself. You don't need to look at me. You need to look in the mirror and look at yourself. And that's the truth.