Brigitte: I've patched things up with Jackie!

Brigitte: I've patched things up with Jackie!
Brigitte: I've patched things up with Jackie!

Actress Brigitte Nielsen has revealed she has patched up her differences with Jackie Stallone after their Celebrity Big Brother encounter. The 47-year-old, who is Jackie's former daughter-in-law from her marriage to Sylvester Stallone, did not get on with her while she was married or when they found themselves in the house together in 2005. However she says that she can now laugh about the meeting. "In the end she apologised for everything she's said and done," Brigitte said. "A couple of times I went to her house for dinner with my husband, Mattia. Sylvester was completely freaked out about it." "I'm there having Thanksgiving dinner and the only one who's not there is Sylvester. It was bizarre. But what was so nice about it is that it's never too late to make things better." Brigitte has just published her autobiography, You Only Get One Life, which takes a look at her four marriages and affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as her battle against alcoholism. "When people think of Brigitte Nielsen, they think 'the one who was married to Sylvester with the big boobs', or 'the crazy one'," she admitted. "But there's also the mother and the real person in there. "Writing the book was a healing process. Talking about the down times was an eye-opener."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.