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Tila Tequila wants a second chance on 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The 33-year-old model was removed from the house by producers after just one day due to controversial comments she previously made about Hitler and the Nazis but she has now issued an apology and asked if she can be allowed back on the show.
She said in a statement: "I am in no way, shape or form a racist nor anti-Semitic and absolutely 100 per cent not a Nazi supporter. It was a careless mistake I made in 2013 while suffering severe depression, drug addiction and being suicidal. That is not the woman I have grown up to be today and the loving mother I have become.
"I humbly ask for forgiveness from everyone I may have hurt or offended. I just want a second chance at life to start over and be given a chance to fix my wrongs. It will be a work in progress but I want to do this so that my daughter will be proud of me one day, and have a positive strong role model in her life and that starts with me.
"I hope that 'Celebrity Big Brother' will give me a second chance."
Tequila has a nine-month-old daughter Isabella with musician Thomas Whitaker, 44.

Simon Cowell says last year's 'X Factor' was "irritating".
The 54-year-old talent show boss - who sat on the panel with fellow judges Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Mel B and Louis Walsh - has revealed his true feelings on the 2014 reality TV contest and said it was all just "predictable".
He said: "It felt very predictable during the live shows. There were a load of people we knew weren't going to win who we just had to put through week after week. We knew one of them was itching to get out so he could go in the bloddy jungle (Jake Quickenden) but that's just one example of why it was irritating."
He added: We did the room auditions, then you go to Wembley (for the arena stage) and it was like ground hog day. The same thing again but with a bigger crowd."
But the music mogul has branded 'The X Factor' 2015 as "The Next Generation" and has made plans to change the format.
He told The Sun TV Magazine: "We're going to make some changes to the live shows so the contestants have much more of an incentive to do better in the competition. We're going to change how the judges categories are given out as well. I think the public will choose. So we're going to have to beg the viewers!"

'Celebrity Big Brother' contestant Daniel Baldwin will quit if he's forced to share a bed with porn stars.
The Hollywood actor is engaged to entrepreneur Robin Sue Hertz Hempel, 48, and gave Channel 5 bosses a list of terms before entering the house they had to agree to or he'd walk from the reality show.
He said: "I understood there would be a scramble to get the beds, and a few of the beds are doubles. I said, 'I need to let you know that, out of respect for my wife, I would never share a bed with another woman. You're going to have to adjust that or I would leave immediately."
What's more, Daniel, 54, won't sit around the pool if other female contestants - such as porn queen Jenna Jameson who was involved in a sex tape scandal - are scantily clad.
He told The Sun newspaper: "Second thing I told them is that I know there are tasks they have us do and that there will be people who are used to being disrobed.
"There is a pool involved and on a nice day I am sure people will lie out in scantily-clad outfits. But if things start coming off I would not sit around the pool, out of respect to my wife. I'd go in the house.
"If they tell me I have to be present for that, I would get my bag and leave the show. Those are the two premises I insisted on."
Elsewhere, Tila Tequila has been kicked off the TV show because of controversial comments the 33 year old model previously made about Hitler and the Nazis on Facebook.




Daniel, 54, revealed: "When people tell you they are a member of the mile-high club...
"Well, imagine being a member of the mile-high club with a female pilot during a commercial flight.
"It was a long time ago. I won't say which airline but they were more than friendly skies."

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini thinks Simon Cowell is a "genius".
The 'Only Human' hitmaker believes she and fellow 'X Factor' judges Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw are giving the music mogul "energy", as well as teaching him more youthful catchphrases, but they all have a lot of respect for the show boss.
She said: "We are giving him energy and teaching him new words. Rita's catchphrase is, 'Mash it up, mash it up, mash it up, boom', and Simon said last night, 'I'm going to mash it up.'
"We all respect him though - he's seen all the changes and had a lot of success. You can't deny the guy is a genius."
And Simon helps the panel get back to "reality" when they get carried away during filming.
She added: "Nick and Rita are fresh eyes and they have a new way of looking at things. Me and Rita have stood on that stage so we know what they're feeling.
"Grimmy is thinking, will I play this record - which is crucial. And then we've got our old veteran, the mogul himself, guiding us.
"Sometimes if we go a little bit off the chart he's like, 'OK, back to reality.' "

Tila Tequila has been kicked off 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The 33-year-old model was removed from the house by producers after just one day due controversial comments she previously made about Hitler and the Nazis on Facebook.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the reality TV show said: "Unfortunately, Channel 5 and Endemol did not know about the views and attitudes Tila had expressed in social media postings prior to her involvement in 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
"When they were brought to our attention, she was called to the Diary Room for a discussion with producers and was subsequently removed from the house.
"The views Tila had expressed, and permitted to remain uncorrected, are totally unacceptable and, accordingly, her continued involvement in the programme was untenable."
The US reality TV star was slammed by a number of groups after posting an image of herself standing in front of Auschwitz back with a gun and wearing a Nazi armband and hat in December 2013.
She also called the late dictator "a brilliant artist," who was "ahead of his time" and claimed she had "the same hopes and dreams" as him.
Tila, whose real name is Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen, reportedly won't receive her $175,000 pay cheque, according to gossip website TMZ.com.

Jeremy Clarkson is being paid £10 million for his Amazon car show.
The 55-year-old presenter and his former 'Top Gear' co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond are set to front a new motoring show on Amazon Prime and although Jeremy was sacked from the BBC for punching a producer in a row over a steak, he's reportedly trumped his colleagues when it comes to wages.
While Clarkson - who has been replaced by BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans on 'Top Gear' - will earn a whopping £10 million for each series, May, Hammond and producer Andy Wilman will each receive £7.2 million, an amount totalling over £30 million.
A source shared: "Jeremy would be looking at £9.6 million a series with the other two not far behind, on the same deal as the producer. Clarkson may have lamped someone over a hot dinner but he'll be raking it in."
In addition to the stars' payments, Amazon have also put aside £160 million for the three series that have so far been announced, meaning each individual episode will have a budget of £4.5 million.
However, a TV executive has insisted that although Amazon have dedicated a huge amount of money to the project, there is no guarantee that it will be as successful as 'Top Gear'.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "People are wondering if the programme will lose its charm.
"Having the three of them careering around in souped-up bangers was at the heart of what they did - giving them too much money could ruin all that."

Bonnie Langford has had her 'EastEnders' contract extended.
The 51-year-old actress joined the BBC One soap as Kush Kazemi's mum Carmel earlier this summer and was initially expected to appear in just a few episodes but she's now revealed producers have asked her to stay on a more permanent basis.
She said: "I'm there for about a year.It's been so wonderful. Normally you go into a show and you know the path your character is going to take. But with Carmel, I get the scripts and think wow, what's going to happen?"
The former 'Doctor Who' star also revealed there are hard times ahead for her character as Kush is set to discover his and his fiancee Shabnam Masood's unborn baby has died.
Bonnie told ITV's 'Lorraine': "I am going to break down completely. There is a big storyline coming up next week and it is completely heartbreaking. I actually cried when I was reading the script on the tube.
"It's a beautifully crafted storyline and I just hope that we do the subject matter justice."
The flame-haired beauty also poked fun at her Best Newcomer nomination at the upcoming Inside Soap Awards.
She added: "It's taken me 45 years to be nominated for best newcomer. I must be a really slow burner!"

Olly Murs was "devastated" when his friend and former bandmate didn't get through 'The X Factor' auditions.
Since coming second in the sixth series of the ITV talent show in 2009, Olly has gone from strength to strength in his career, resulting in him replacing Dermot O'Leary to host this year's competition alongside Caroline Flack.
However, things didn't go as well for his pal Jon Goodey - who he was in a band called the Small Town Blaggers with when he was a teenager - after he persuaded him to audition.
Asked how he felt when the judges said no to Jon, Olly admitted: "I was devastated. Jon is a really good friend of mine, I've known him obviously for years. So, yeah, it was horrible."
Luckily, Olly didn't hold his disappointment against this year's judges - Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora.
The 31-year-old heartthrob said: "The judges have got to do what they've got to do. They've got to put my friendship with him aside and obviously judge the audition."
The 'Up' hitmaker added: "I think John knew when he walked off that he didn't do the best audition, but obviously from a personal point of view I was devastated for him because he is a very close friend of mine. It wasn't very nice."

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff tried "to break" the contestants on 'Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week'.
The 37-year-old sportsman fronts the new BBC Two show that sees 29 of the fittest men and women in the UK face the toughest endurance challenges, and Freddie has admitted to feeling "guilty" because the experience was so gruelling.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "Part of me felt a little bit guilty. There people are going through absolute hell and you want to give them a Mars bar or something to keep their spirits up."
Freddie said his background as a cricketer didn't compare to the endurance fitness levels of the show's contestants, but he empathised with their psychological battles.
He shared: "Playing cricket and seeing these guys are obviously poles apart. Getting them up at one in the morning and spraying them with water and trying to break them, basically...
"I was more interested in the mental aspect of it, whereby people think they've reached their limit and they push on through that. I can relate to that a little more than the physical stuff."
Meanwhile, Freddie also revealed he has no interest in starring on 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!', despite winning the first series of the Australian version earlier this year.
The former cricket star said: "I wasn't interested in doing the other one, to be honest. It was one of them where they kept asking and I'd run out of excuses to not do it.
"It's a different show to the British one. It's shown earlier, so it's family viewing - it's not about people swearing and having arguments. It's more of a family show."
'Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week' can be seen on Sunday at 9pm on BBC Two.