Ryan Thomas speaks out on controversial Big Brother 'silence' following Roxanne Pallet row

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Ryan Thomas has opened up on his lonely stint on Celebrity Big Brother after Roxanne Pallett accused him of purposely punching her.

The former Corrie actor, 39, spoke about the incident and backlash on his podcast with his brother Scott Thomas admitting that he felt lonely and betrayed.

In 2018, Emmerdale star Roxanne said that Ryan 'repeatedly and deliberately punched' her when he was actually punching the air in her vicinity while play fighting.Speaking of the ordeal, Scott said: "This situation with Roxanne Pallet which you've never talked about before came up and I remember watching at home, and I remember like it was yesterday..."I even remember the exact video where you just went up to her and you gave her a little play punch, like, in the air and we're all watching at home, as the audience, knowing exactly what's happened, that you never even touched her... "So obviously we know straight away from the nation's perspective that we're on your side, but obviously being in there, she was making out to the rest of the contestants that you would physically hurt her."Ryan shed extensive light on the situation and what actually went down in the house: "From what you see on the telly and from what I see in the show they’re two different perspectives so I'll tell you how it looked from where I was standing..."So Roxanne and Ben [Jardine] were getting on really well; Roxanne had a fella, she was engaged and Ben was sort of pushing it on her, he really fancied her and he was trying everything in his power to sort of whisk her off her feet..."So from where I was standing, it looked a little bit uncomfortable like she didn't want it and he wanted more and then the next thing you know, Roxanne decides she's gonna go and stay in