Galloway faces eviction from Big Brother and possible bankruptcy

LONDON - MP George Galloway is facing eviction from the 'Big Brother' house and a possible £2m legal bill, which could send him bankrupt, on Wednesday.

The Respect party MP was nominated by four out of his eight housemates and will face the public vote on Wednesday night, alongside fake celebrity Chantelle Houghton and NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman, who each received three nominations.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, appeal court judges will decide if the Daily Telegraph will be able to overturn a case Galloway won against them.

The Bethnal Green and Bow MP won £150,000 in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph in 2003 over claims he received money from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

If the ruling is overturned, then Galloway could be stumped with a legal bill of over £2m -- he has admitted in the past that paying the legal bill would make him bankrupt.

The MP has also had to contend with the wrath of 'Big Brother', which got him into severe trouble with several of his housemates over the weekend.

'Big Brother' gave Preston a transcript of a conversation George had with Rula Lenska on Thursday, in which he explained his reasons for nominating her, Maggot and Traci the night before.

George spoke of who he would have nominated, had he not had to make mutual decisions with Preston at the time.  

George said: "If I had been in with somebody else, that would not have been the three that I would have nominated. If I had been in on my own, that would not have been the three that I would have nominated...
 
"He would have been one of them. He was hardly going to agree to put himself up.
 
"Chantelle might have been another. He's not going to agree to that. So if you ... take out of the equation that, given all the material there had been over the past 48 hours, and the fact that I, I did have one idee fixe and that was Traci. I would have nominated her in any circumstances.
 
"I could hardly nominate Dennis as well as Traci... I wouldn't nominate Michael and on reflection, given that I think Pete is in a wanting-to-go-mode again, I might have actually solved a problem to nominate him."

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