Celebrity Big brother bosses have reportedly dropped Lee Ryan from their lineup this year and replaced him with So Solid star Romeo.

Insiders say that the former Blue singer was getting too big for his boots and despite having initially agreed a fee of £175,000, the 28 year old star changed his mind and tried to pressure producers into upping his money substantially.

Sources say that bosses felt the dad of two was already being overpaid for his involvement in the reality TV show and told him he was off the series.

A source told The Sun: “Lee was all set to go but then he wanted more than £175,000. There was already a pretty high figure for him so the decision was made to call it a day with him and find someone cheaper.

“There’s no doubt he’d have been good value but we can’t be held to ransom like that.”

We are kind of disappointed by the news. In an interview with the New! magazine on 27 April 2010, Ryan confessed he had threesomes with his bandmate Duncan James, while answering the question about James bisexuality. We were hoping that he and Frankie Cocozza would hit it off inside the house!

MC Romeo will now reportedly replace Lee in the famous house, when the new series of celebrity Big Brother starts tomorrow night.

He has plenty of reality TV experience as in 2004 Romeo appeared in the reality show The Games, and returned to the series to compete in the Champion of Champions contest in 2006. The 31 year old also featured in a gameshow called Fool Around With… Romeo on Channel 4 in 2005, in which he had to guess which girl out of four was single and appeared in an episode of ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’ on BBC Three in 2009, as the best man for his brother, Darnell Dawkins.

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Lee Ryan has revealed that he has ambitions to be a porn star.

The Blue singer – who is currently preparing to represent the UK at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – is father to Bluebelle, three, and Rayn, two, but admitted that he would be keen to star in a raunchy adult movie.

He said: “I’d love to do porn. I would! I think I’d be great. I’d be brilliant.

“I wouldn’t stop though, that’s the hard thing about being a porn star.”

Lee – who met former fiancee Sammy Miller, the mother of his son Rayn, on social networking website MySpace – also admitted he thinks all his previous relationships have been “s**t” and doesn’t think dating people in the same industry makes things any better or worse.

He added in an interview with Closer magazine: “There’s lots to be jealous of in this industry – we’re surrounded by beautiful women.

“I’ve been with people in the industry and not – and they both suck.

“It’s just I haven’t had one great relationship – every relationship I’ve had has been s**t.”

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Former Blue singer Lee Ryan has admitted that shows like The X Factor are a good way to get into the music industry but says that artists should be aware that it is the show that sells records and not them.

On how to succeed in the industry, Lee told Metro: “It’s about your profile and getting yourself out there.

“I don’t think people from X Factor and these shows have to do that, they come from such a big audience with such a big following on these massive shows.”

“That’s why when they come out and sell a million copies, it’s the shows that sell a million copies, not so much the artist straight away.”

He added: “If they want a way in, X Factor and Pop Idol and these sorts of shows really give an opportunity to people who have no clue.”

“There have been some really s**t artists, crap artists, over the time.

“Out of all those bad ones, you do get a couple of gems come through. Leona Lewis, Lemar…most of our pop industry has come from these TV programmes.”

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Lee, who ate in the restaurant with his mum, said: “I don’t really regret things in life. It was a great experience, although it was short lived.

“But I stand up for what I believe in. I don’t regret anything. I stand by what I said. I didn’t walk out. I would have stuck it out but Marco asked me to leave and I did.”

Lee added: “I have no balls with Marco at all. Like I said when I first brought the issue up I respect him I respect the man he is and what he’s achieved. I haven’t got anything bad to say about him.”

On his reasons for returning to Hell Lee said: “I came back tonight because I got asked to come down and I thought I would come down and have a nice meal with my mum.”

And on what he thought of the show he added: “I watched one episode (which was) when I got asked to leave. I thought it was great TV.”

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Food Heaven: Anything healthy, Sushi, Sea urchins, Eggs Benedict, French cheese

Food Hell: Fast food

Pop star and actor Lee Ryan is confident that his secret ingredient to succeeding in Hell’s Kitchen – his easy charm and inclination to flirt with the female contestants – will ease him through the competition.

Best known for being part of the hugely successful boy band Blue, Lee has grown up fending off female attention but as a single man in his twenties he revels in the attention, confessing that his ideal dessert would not be a traditional dish: “You mean, WHO would I have for dessert?!”

Enthusiastic about food, Lee wants to hone the cooking skills he already has, and jokes that it could help him to settle down.

“I’ve never really wanted to do programmes like this but when I heard it was cooking it’s something I liked the idea of. I wouldn’t just do something because of the fact of being on TV. At least I’m doing something and that’s why I agreed to do it. I want to learn something from it, I’m actually going to come away with a life skill which hopefully will help with finding my wife someday!”

Classing himself as a fairly good cook, Lee makes all sorts of traditional dishes but when impressing a lady, he likes to experiment and says that the trick is in the presentation.

“I make spaghetti and lasagnes and loads of different things.When I’m cooking to impress a girl though I like to make it look professional – it’s not just about stuffing it on a plate. If you only do the smallest little thing to make it look like a gourmet meal, it’s about presentation, everything’s about presentation.”

“The last meal I made for a girl was monkfish but I put too much soy sauce on it and it came out really salty.

“That didn’t go down too well…” Lee adds with a cheeky grin.

Lee confesses that he’s got something to prove as his sister is also a great chef and has appeared on MasterChef.

“My sister Gemma won MasterChef when she was younger so she started cooking and because she cooked, I cooked. My mum always said to me ‘never depend on a woman, you’ve got to be self-dependant. I’ve always been independent and I’ve lived on my own for four, five years now and I do my own washing.”

He might do his own washing, but Lee, who has recently set up home in LA to pursue a career in acting, admits that he tends to go out to eat nowadays rather than eat in.

“I eat out a lot. I go to some beautiful restaurants. I go mainly to a lot of sushi restaurants. I live on sushi, sushi is a big big part of my diet. It is amazing food and I’ve lost so much weight through eating it.”

With a new secret role coming up in a Hollywood film and having just completed work on another film called Heavy, Lee is very conscious about keeping fit for his work, and as well as being a self-confessed gym junkie, his eating habits have changed since his move.

“I’m very adventurous with my food. I’m quite health conscious actually, I don’t eat crap. I won’t eat crap, it’s just something I won’t do. I try and stay away from fast food. I’ll cook myself a good meal with vegetables and meat. I’ll turn into one of these LA freaks who has one cup of wheatgrass and things like protein powder! But I feel healthy and I feel really good at the moment.”

Counting Gordon Ramsay as a friend and aware that Gordon has trained under Marco’s leadership, Lee is intrigued to meet his new head chef.

“I wanted to do the show because I actually thought Gordon was going to be doing it! I’ve met him a few times and I think he’s a really lovely guy and I think he’s got a lot of respect. I’ve never really met Marco but I hear that he’s well respected in the industry and I appreciate a respected guy who’s got a passion. I think he’s going to be an interesting person.”

“I can take anything he says about my cooking but if he says anything personal that upsets me then I will just walk off.”

A hard-worker, Lee says that he’ll be calm and methodical in his cooking and although he’s more than prepared to take criticism, he wants to make sure that he has fun as well.

“I’m definitely a joker in a team. I’ll have fun. He (Marco) might not stand for any food fights but I might chuck a few peas around or someone might get a mange-tout in the head when they’re not looking. I can be serious but sometimes temptation can be a bit difficult. I hope when things hit the fan I can concentrate but I don’t know.”

He adds: “I can be distracted by a pretty woman. I am a man. That will be difficult if there are any sexy women in there. Can you be sexy – sweating and chopping carrots?”

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