It looks like Ray J’s most recent attempt at staying relevant has ended abruptly, with the singer threatening Celebrity Big Brother with legal action after they allegedly stopped him from returning to the house after he left with tooth pain.
He left the show on Tuesday after he passed out over pain caused by a cracked tooth, telling TMZ he’d been complaining about it for “three and a half days.”
“It got to the point where some of the housemates in the house felt I was being ignored,” he told the gossip site. “We took petitions to say, ‘Hey we’re not doing any more tasks until Ray J’s tooth gets fixed’.
“I’ve got a cracked tooth where I need a filling fixed, I’ve got a gum coming over my other tooth. I’m in a lot of pain.”
After the producers removed him from the house due to the pain, Ray J said that the wind hit his tooth and he “blacked out”, leading to him being taken to hospital. The trip didn’t go down well with the producers though, who won’t let him re-enter the house.
“I end up in the hospital 45 minutes, they get me a some nutrition and I eat some McDonalds and I’m cool, I’m literally fine, I’m ready to go back in the house and they won’t let me back in. I felt like I was connecting with the British fan base, British audience.
“What’s sad is they won’t let me do the show any more, they won’t let me back in the house. It’s not fair to me.”
He even claimed he was going to drive to the dentist himself and then “try and get back in[to]” the house in Elstree Studios.
When asked if he would sue if he didn’t get the $1m (£800,000) fee for taking part in the show, he said: “I never like to do that because I’m a producer and I like to be on the same page as everybody, but this is just not fair. And if I have to take those precautions I will. I don’t even care about my tooth. Put me back in the house and let me work.”