Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House director of communications, revealed what he learned after lasting a whole six days on “Celebrity Big Brother.”
“What I learned in the ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ house is you gain weight. I feel like I put on the Freshman 15 in five days,” he said on the new episode of his RADIO.com podcast, "Mooch and the Mrs."
“I want to give a big shoutout to my wife,” he said, adding that she “basically" cleared him to appear on the show.
“This is the only place in America where Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina and I can share the same bedroom and my wife won’t be mad at me, right?”
His wife Deidre, said on the podcast, “I’d have more anxiety if you shared the room with Natalie Eva Marie. Just saying.” Marie, an actress and former WWE wrestler, is a contestant on the show.
Scarmucci's fellow castmates included Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, actress Lindsay Lohan's mom Dina Lohan, ex-NFL star Ricky Williams, and Grammy nominee and TV personality Tamar Braxton.
Deidre said of Anthony’s appearance on the show’s second season, “His version of clearing this is, ‘Should I do this?’ [I said] ‘No.’ And then he’s like, ‘Okay, I’m doing it.’”
Anthony said, “If you said ‘NFW,’ I’d probably wouldn’t have done it.”
Deidre quipped, “I said ‘NFW’ to Trump and you said, ‘Yeah, peace, I’m going. I’ll talk to you in a year’” (Scaramucci’s White House tenure lasted 11 days).
“How long will it take to get the Cheetos stain off my hands?” said Anthony, dropping a reference to a disparaging nickname for President Trump.
Anthony also addressed speculation that he had quit the show. “They think I quit the ‘Big Brother’ House, and then CBS made up that whole twist to cover my you-know-what. So stupid,” he said.
Deidre said, “If there were no cameras and no microphones, you would not have done it.”
“One hundred-percent not,” Anthony said. “And lights. I like lights.”
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