During a conversation with apprentice runner-up Luisa Zissman, who said that openness about sexuality was good ‘because it is normal’, the 51-year-old said: ‘That ain't normal’.
His remarks resulted in the former boxer being called into the Diary Room for a ticking off by Big Brother.
But the American father-of-11 backtracked after he was the first to be evicted.
Speaking following his eviction, he said:
‘I haven't got the opportunity to make an apology yet, but I guess with me in that situation, I kind of felt I was talking to one person.
‘I was telling one person my view. I do owe an apology for what I said because I really wasn't talking and really wasn't trying to talk about somebody, because I don't talk about nobody.
‘She asked me something and I thought I was sharing with her my view personally, and I forgot about everything.
‘So I am going to make a public apology and that because I am sorry for anybody I offended in that situation.’