Author: Stephanie Webber / Source: Us Weekly
On to the next! Omarosa Manigault may have left the White House in December, but she was still apparently packing away her personal items months later.
“She told us she was at the White House cleaning up her office like four days before she got in the house.
So it was fresh, it was new. She was learning to reacclimate to this new world of Big Brother after coming off the White House,” Mark McGrath exclusively tells Us Weekly. “It was just all fascinating. And man, that woman knows how to turn on the drama and turn on the light. She’s just a star. She’s just an amazing human being and I’m so glad America hopefully got to see what I saw from Omarosa.”McGrath, 49, and Manigault, 44, appeared together on CBS’ Celebrity Big Brother. The reality star’s appearance left the cast shocked and intrigued — mainly because of details she would drop about her experience in the Trump administration.
“The crazy thing is she was in the situation room with Trump. She knows a thing about a thing or two but she likes to give information out. She’ll throw out a little juicy tidbit and you’re like, ‘Oh my God you’re kidding me?!’ And she’ll just leave it hanging there. And that’s what Omarosa kind of does,” he adds. “It’s like, Oh my God if I’m listening to this will the CIA be at my house at home? Like, what’s going on? She was a fascinating character.”
McGrath was just as impressed with Manigault when she stripped away her reality TV persona. “I was so happy to see Omarosa in her element.
She just got out of the scrutiny of the White House and the bubble that is the White House and the security and all that and so when she got in the Big Brother house she let her hair down. And I hope they showed how much fun she is. She’s silly, she’s fun, she’s positive. She’s interested in other people. She looks you in the eyes. She’s interested about your family and career. She was a joy to be around. But she will turn on that Omarosa thing when she has to.”
The former BB houseguests both made it to the top five in the game. When not competing or making alliances, McGrath, well, was cleaning after his roommates.
“Look, I would love to say I clean in my regular day all day. I do like to keep a tidy area. I will say that because I travel a lot and I’m constantly in hotel rooms. And so I just like to keep order in my life and its something that happened later in life as well. I wasn’t the most domesticated when I was younger and my mother wasn’t either,” he tells Us, laughing. “I like to keep things tidy and No. 2 no one is going to do it. And No. 3, when you are in the house you’re looking for things to do. … So cleaning was a way to pass the time as well. … I mean these girls would be doing makeup all day, the trash would be full and then they would just stack trash against the wall up to the ceiling. I’m like, ‘Are you guys really that lazy?’ There would be gross Q-tips on the ground and dirty tissues and I’m like ‘Oh my God, I’m going to get sick in here.’ And no one else would do it!”
For more, read the rest of his Q&A:
US: You had a final two deal with Ross Mathews, but why did you ultimately not vote for Marissa Jaret Winokur to win?
MM: They are both lovely. They are almost the same person. I found it hard to believe they didn’t know each other before the house because they absolutely became the best of friends in there and I’d be shocked if they weren’t lifelong friends. They both made my experience in the house pleasurable and they are both world class comedians. So I love them both equally. I know I made a reference of Sophie’s Choice on the live show and it truly was. I was so conflicted on who to pick but the day I walked in the house Ross and I made a pact. ‘I won’t vote for you, you won’t vote for me.’ Ironically he voted me out of the house but we always said that if something were to happen we understood. … I would not have gotten to finale if it weren’t for Ross…
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