Mickey Rourke may have gotten booted off "Celebrity Big Brother" ... but he's not going down without a fight, as he's exploring legal action against the show for allegedly withholding money he feels entitled to, TMZ has learned.
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00:01It's Mickey Rock, everyone!
00:03Yeah, it is!
00:04And he's thinking about suing Celebrity Big Brother
00:07for pulling a fast one and costing him money,
00:09a lot of which he had already spent,
00:11and we'll get into that.
00:12He got booted off the show.
00:14Because he was getting a little homophobic with JoJo Siwa.
00:17If I stay longer than four days, you won't be gay anymore.
00:20I'm gonna vote the lesbian out real quick.
00:22And for getting aggressive with housemate Chris Hughes
00:24while dressed as a pirate for some reason.
00:26Don't eyeball me.
00:27Mickey's a joke.
00:28Don't eyeball me.
00:30Why is he suing?
00:31The rep is claiming producers purposely removed him one day
00:35before he would be contractually up to get a lot more money.
00:39So they basically got a bang for no buck.
00:42Tommy's impressed with the producers.
00:45Totally!
00:46There's more.
00:47The rep says Mickey was promised first-class accommodations in London,
00:50so Mickey booked himself and his people into some super swanky hotel.
00:54Then the producers tell him...
00:56Oh yeah, we're only paying for $300 a night a room.
00:59His bill was $50k.
01:00Oh my god!
01:03If they just said, we'll give you a great accommodation,
01:06and he picks something that's gonna cost 50 grand, this is on him.
01:10The producers agreed.
01:11Mickey's rep says they deducted it from his pay.
01:13And according to sources...
01:15He only did Celebrity Big Brother is because he's not doing very well financially.
01:19Guess that 90s sitcom didn't pay residuals.
01:22Okay, there was no 90s sitcom, but there should have been.
01:25As for Big Brother booting him before the pay hike...
01:27Even if they did it intentionally, why can't they?
01:30I don't know how contracts work, man.
01:32And you just keep it that way.
01:34Anyway, shocking it didn't work out, Mickey.
01:36Have you considered RuPaul's Drag Race?
01:38This is RuPaul's Drag Race.