The former Love Island star asked his former Coronation Street housemate about the Blue Origin space flight, leaving many fans questionning how he knew about it
The second-to-last episode of Celebrity Big Brother aired Thursday night, and some eagle-eyed viewers think they caught a rare slip-up from the show.
As emotions ran high during a heartfelt segment where the finalists received letters from home and began preparing to say their goodbyes, a surprising exchange between Love Island star Chris Hughes, 32, and Coronation Street actor Jack P. Shepherd caught viewers’ attention.
During a casual chat, Hughes brought up last week’s headline-grabbing Blue Origin space flight, the one that featured pop star Katy Perry joining an all-female crew for a controversial mission.
Curious, he asked Shepherd if he’d ever consider going to space “like Katy Perry did,” admitting that he himself would be too scared.
Shepherd seemed puzzled and questioned why Perry had even been chosen for the flight. But it wasn’t the conversation itself that stirred up debate, it was the timing.
Fans were quick to point out that housemates are meant to be completely isolated from outside news during their time on Big Brother. Given that the launch happened just last week, many wondered how Hughes could’ve known about it.
Some viewers suggested there may have been a rule break that leaked news into the CBB house.
However, others noted that the space flight had been public knowledge for months, with the launch date likely known before the housemates entered the house.
Still, the moment sparked a wave of speculation online, with fans flooding social media to question whether the show’s strict isolation rules had been unintentionally broken.
On X, one user asked: “How does Chris know Katy Perry went to space when they can’t know stuff from the outside and that only happened like last week didn’t it?!”
Another wrote: “Chris talking about how good Katy Perrys space trip was when the show launched a week before she actually went.”
Many were left demanding answers from the producers.
One viewer wrote: “How does Chris know about Katy Perry popping into space?”
Another chimed in with: “Have I missed something? How does Chris know Katy Perry went to space?”
However, others responded saying that the plans for the popstar to go to space were released months ago, with numerous news articles published, suggesting that he was speaking more broadly about her going, and not the actual trip.
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