BIG Brother was last night hit by a race row with beauty queen Deanna Uppal convinced that bouncer Chris James does not like her because she is Indian.
The model, 23, claims the wannabe, dubbed Mr Squeak, has blanked her for most of the 10 days they have spent together in the house.
And after racking her brains for a reason over the snub, she can only think it’s because he might be racist.
She confided her fears in a private late-night chat with pals Luke Anderson and Lydia Louisa.
She said: “Chris hasn’t spoken to me at all and he’s spoken to everybody else. I’ve not done anything for him to not like me. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s because... you know? You know what I mean?”
Lydia, 25, nodded and told her: “Yeah.”
So far she has not complained to BB bosses about Chris’s behaviour, and no action has been taken by telly chiefs.
The bouncer, 21, was last night up for eviction from the Channel 5 show against hunk Arron Lowe, 23.
Before she went into Big Brother, former Miss India UK winner Deana said she had been the victim of racist taunts in the past.
She said growing up in Middlesbrough was tough, revealing: “I grew up in an area where it was all English people. I grew up in a small tiny village where me and my mum were the only Indians.
“All through primary school there was racism, though it was only kids. I think my mum was more upset by racism than me.”
She added: “In high school there were quite a lot of people that didn’t like me. This was from other Indian girls so I can’t say this was racism.”
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