The first night in the Celebrity Big Brother has passed and Ann Widdecombe has been quick to air her opinions.

Gathered on the sofas, the eight female celebrities sent into the house on Tuesday night answered questions on their experiences as women in their lives.

The discussion turned toward the 'casting couch' culture in acting, but Miss Widdecombe, referring to actresses, argued: "It was down to them, they had a choice."

When glamour model Jess Impiazzi expressed her fear of a man harassing her at work, Miss Widdecombe, countered: "You say no."

Discussing workplace discrimination, the former Maidstone and The Weald MP said: "About six months after the Blair Babes came in, one of them came up to me in the corridor and said to me 'Ann isn't it horrible how the men are so rude to us'.

"I said yes and isn't it horrible how they're so rude to each other, and she hadn't thought of that, she'd just been roughed up in the chambers and assumed it was because she was a woman, in fact it was because she was useless.

"You can always see things and interpret."

The former MP, who retired in 2010, clashed with India Willoughby over a pile of towels with Miss Widdecombe's name were left on a bed.

The pair had bonded earlier in the episode, when the Brexiteer revealed her "hate" for "positive discrimination", after discussing what she called.

When the former ITV news reporter doubted if Miss Widdecombe had ever high-fived, the 70-year-old replied: "Of course I've done a high five."

The pair bonded after Miss Widdecombe told the 52-year-old and former detective Maggie Oliver: "I never thought of myself as a woman MP, I was an MP who happened to be a woman, just as I was an MP who happened to be short rather than tall.

"I think every woman in parliament has got the same right to look every man in parliament in the eye and know she got there on exactly the same basis as he did. I hate positive discrimination, I hate it with a passion."

But when Miss Willoughby refused to budge from a bed where the staunch Tory's towels had been placed, the Brexiteer marched to another bedroom, where the self-confessed snorer slept alone.