Arthur reveals he walked because he felt "bullied & isolated"
 

Arthur Fulford has revealed just why he quit Big Brother 2017 in a first chat after his exit.


Arthur says he did indeed choose to leave, as opposed to being ejected, saying it was because he felt "bullied and isolated"


on Sunday but little was said about his exit on the nightly highlights episodes.

A short statement released by Channel 5 at the weekend read simply: "Arthur has left the Big Brother house and will not be returning.
"See the housemates react on Big Brother tomorrow [Monday] night at 10pm, Channel 5."

Arthur's exit played out in last night's show but with no explanation offered as to why he had left.

Arthur was first seen going into the diary room. "After a confidential off-camera conversation," narrator Marcus Bentley then said, "Arthur will not be returning."



Speaking to The Sun newspaper, Arthur said: “It all became way too much. I felt bullied and isolated."

He continued: "But at the same time I didn’t want to allow myself to become a victim.

“I knew what I was doing the whole time, winding people up, but it didn’t come from a place of malice.

“Every year Big Brother has a ‘cool group’ consisting of the young, good looking models. They treat the rest of us as their inferiors and that infuriated me!"

Arthur added: “One of my biggest fears in the house was how I was being perceived from the outside.”

Arthur was speaking to former Big Brother housemate Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace who went on to slam the housemates' treatment of him.


She said: "I felt SO uncomfortable watching Kayleigh go for Arthur by the sofas on Sunday, calling him all sorts and Chanelle laughing in his face saying 'look at him looking around for reassurance' YUCK! What nasty morons! Bunch of mean girls."

Big Brother continues nightly on Channel 5.

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Poor guy, this isn't the first time a housemate has felt bullied and forced to leave..

Obviously we haven't seen everything but what I have seen I still stand by the fact he wasn't bullied. Whether he felt that way or not. In fact he says here himself "I knew what I was doing". So how can you have sympathy for someone that admits to baiting people?!

I liked Arthur and I hate he felt that way in the end but by his own admission he brought it on himself so no bullying in my eyes.

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Tbf he didn't do himself any favors at all and the only housemate who was bordering bullying was Tom. Everyone else (rightfully) clocked him for his behaviour or comments.

I don't like Aisleyne,but she is spot on here,so good for her,shame Arthur felt he had to go,I think he could have won ,and Raph needs a good friend in there. They basically bullied him out the door .

It still doesn't especially explain why he was able to leave instantly as opposed to the whole "Big Brother suggests you sleep on it" thing that is normally used. Goes to show though that there are some pretty unpleasant characters in there this year.

Well it's good to finally know the real reason as to why he left. Wonder whether Big Brother offered any actual help to resolve his issues with the other housemates

Yes they did, i felt really sorry for him,no one should feel like this ,IMO Kayleigh was the prime bitch ,the others were her hangerons

He said he felt "bullied and isolated" so yes he was bullied out of the house deny it all you want,if that is how he felt ,nothing more to be said.

He has been in an environment of anarchy all his life where people swore and fought and all sorts, so I don't swallow it that a few people swearing at him caused him any trauma at all. Its something he is well used to, I call utter bollocks

Oh my god this is HILARIOUS. AISLEYNE talk about pot calling kettle black one of the bitchiest housemates ever who had to be removed from the BBBOTS studio for throwing water. And ARTHUR feeling isolated. If he had done nothing wrong to any of the housemates yes of course that would be true. He started as early as night one tampering with one of the manequins then called housemates names locked their food into the storeroom told Kayleigh she WASNT a woman etc. He is trying to make headlines saying he felt isolated etc. If anyone believes that rubbish go ahead but there is more to this that he is admitting. And Aisleyne trying to stay relevant after all these years. WHAT HAS SHE ACTUALLY DONE WITH HER LIFE !!!!

Ex hm, who bloody cares. Posh knob couldnt hack it thats all that happened.

He hurt upset and demeaned Kayleigh with his catty comments but people seem to have forgotten that he started it. He and Kayleigh had got on well she even said it a few times when arguing with him

How did he hurt and upset Kayleigh???

Words from my mouth. Awful, the lot of them.

Fair enough if he felt that way, but I'm judging based on what's been shown and what I've seen and I personally don't think he was. If I was going to take everything a housemate has ever said as fact, there would be no point in watching this show.

This, you can't really wind people up deliberately and then cry bullying when they react to it

Exactly
He's was looking for some sort of reaction, he got it, and now he's moaning

I too felt very uncomfortable watching their treatment of him. I hope that awful bitch Kayleigh, the worst of the lot, gets the boot this Friday.

As I said when the news originally came out, they probably did it because they always need an early exit for 'drama'

At least we will still have his mate Raph in there to fly the flag for the quirky people :love:

kayleigh rolls the rock

Arthur wasn't being bullied it was just karma for the way he treated everyone else.