Last year, Omarosa Manigault-Newman dished the dirt on Donald Trump on Celebrity Big Brother. This season, the wife of Anthony Scaramucci fears he may do the same thing.
Deidre Scaramucci, the wife of the former White House communications director, says her husband will try not to “blab” about White House secrets while appearing on CBS’s “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition,” which premieres tonight.
“Anthony is known to blab sometimes when he shouldn’t, but I think he’ll try to reign it in,” said Deidre Scaramucci. “I don’t think he wants to ruffle any more feathers at the White House than he already has.”
She added, however, that she’s a “little nervous” about Scaramucci being surrounded by cameras on the show because he “has a tendency to say some crazy things.”
Spoiler account @realvegasbackup revealed Scaramucci may have already talked Trump with his houseguests:
“I’m a little nervous about him being around cameras 24 hours a day because he has a tendency to say some crazy things,” said Deidre Scaramucci. “And he loves four-letter words. I’m assuming they have the edit button on red-hot for him.”
Omarosa appeared on the first season of Celebrity Big Brother, which premiered in winter 2018.
She was notably open on her worry for the future of America under Trump’s administration.
Last year, Manigault-Newman described the situation inside the Trump White House as “bad.”
Asked whether the nation should be concerned about the administration, she said, “it’s going to not be OK. It’s not.”
Scaramucci said before going into the Big Brother house that five days working in the West Wing with a former reality TV star as president would translate to his being a successful contestant on the show.
“Surprisingly, I think the — my White House experience is somewhat similar to the ‘Big Brother’ programming because unfortunately these are games of elimination,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
“If you think about presidential politics as an example, it is the peak of elimination games. And so what happens in elimination games is people get rough with each other and they say mean and nasty things, and they’re elbowing each other and then they’re politicking against each other,” he said. “And that’s really similar to what goes on in the ‘Big Brother’ house. And so I think that experience has well-primed me.”
Omarosa openly spoke her mind about Trump, Vice President Pence and others during last season’s Celebrity Big Brother.
“I plan on being open,” said Scaramucci. “I’m a different personality from Omarosa and we obviously had different experiences, but I’m pretty much an open book, so if people ask me questions I’ll answer them very honestly. No problem doing it.
Finally, knowing that Trump watches a lot of TV, does he think his former boss will be tuning in to see what he says.
“He definitely tapes a lot of shows,” says Scaramucci. “And he’s a television star if you think about his career as the host of Celebrity Apprentice or The Apprentice. So he likes television. He has an eye for television. So he’s called me and critiqued me after some of my interviews, and so maybe he’ll call and critique me after my Big Brother presence, but you know, we get along. I like the president and there’s no hard feelings about me being fired.”
Scaramucci’s White House career was short-lived.
The former Goldman Sachs investment banker was named by Trump in July 2017 as his top communications strategist.
Five days into the stint, he was canned because incoming White House chief of staff John Kelly wanted a clean slate of personnel.
For better or for worse, Omarosa made the most headlines last season on Celebrity Big Brother.
When new houseguest Jonathan Bennett whether he would rather be a hero or a villain this season, he did not hesitate to answer.
And he threw out a familiar name to explain why.
“I would definitely rather be the hero this season,” Bennett told EW. “Because the villains scare me. Like, Omarosa was the scariest person I have ever seen on television. I am so happy that I am not in the house with Omarosa.”
Bennett then froze, remembering that past players have been known to return to the Big Brother house. “If Omarosa is in the house, I am running,” said a panicked Bennett. “I am running out of the house!”
Here’s the full cast:
Tamar Braxton (41, singer)
Anthony Scaramucci (55, former politician)
Dina Lohan (59, momager)
Ryan Lochte (34, Olympian)
Joey Lawrence (42, actor)
Lolo Jones (36, Olympian)
Tom Green (47, comedian)
Jonathan Bennett (37, actor)
Kato Kaelin (59, actor)
Natalie Eva Marie (34, former WWE star)
Kandi Burruss (42, singer)
Ricky Williams (41, former NFL star)
The second season of Celebrity Big Brother will premiere tonight with a two-hour season premiere as host Julie Chen returns to welcome the next batch of celebs into the Big Brother house.
Like the first season, the show will air multiple nights a week until the show’s two-hour season finale on Wednesday, February 13th.
New episodes of “Celebrity Big Brother” will air every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.