The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke has admitted his acting career is “in the toilet” after yet another controversial episode.

The 72-year-old Oscar nominee is in hot water for homophobic remarks during an appearance on British TV’s Celebrity Big Brother.

Rourke aimed the ugly comments at Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa in an episode that aired in Britain on Wednesday (local time). He first asked Siwa if she liked boys or girls.

“Girls. My partner is non-binary,” the 21-year-old Karma singer said.

Rourke then said: “If I stay longer than four days, you won’t be gay any more.”

Siwa replied: “I can guarantee I’ll still be gay and I’ll still be in a very happy relationship.”

Rourke then apparently referred to an earlier conversation about the smoking area, when he said: “I need a fag”, before gesturing to Siwa and adding: “I’m not talking to you.”

He was then given a warning by the show’s Big Brother and told his “language was offensive and unacceptable”.

“As a result, Big Brother is giving you a formal warning. Further language or behaviour of this nature could lead to you being removed from the Big Brother house,” Rourke was told.

He has since apologised to Siwa, claiming he had no “dishonourable intentions”.

“I want to apologise. I’ve got a habit of having a short fuse,” Rourke said.

“I don’t mean nothing by it. I do mean it [sorry]. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t say it to you.”

Rourke’s Hollywood career peaked in the 1980s with leading roles in 9½ Weeks opposite Kim Basinger, as well as Rumble Fish, Angel Heart, Francesco and Johnny Handsome.

Famously, he also turned down roles in Rain Man, Platoon and The Untouchables and briefly pursued a boxing career from 1991-1995.

His Hollywood comeback came with 2005’s Sin City and was then nominated for a best actor Oscar for The Wrestler in 2008.

But he has since admitted he’s “made mistakes” and said he struggles to book jobs because of his bad boy reputation – confessing he signed up to appear in on Britain’s Celebrity Big Brother only because he couldn’t face filming a “really bad independent movie”.

“I’ve made mistakes, many. I have nobody to blame for my ship sinking except myself,” Rourke told The Sun newspaper.

“My career is in the toilet and I’m not getting A-list movies. I’d like to be back where I can work on movies that have integrity.

“There’s directors I want to work with and have them not be afraid of me and trust me for who I am today, not for the reputation I have.

“But once it goes past a certain point, I’ve got a short fuse – there’s no turning back. It’s on.”

-with AAP