I think Channel 4 will play the safe card tonight and only invite employees from Elstree, Endemol and C4 into the crowd. This'll probably be the last eviction before they pull the show - which I hope they don't but this series has just gone too far.
"So do we really have a race problem - still - in this country, or are we just watching the ramblings of an ignorant and unrepresentive underclass?"
So either Jade is racist or part of the underclass?! Is this what the license-feed public service broadcaster should be saying about a particular memeber of the public - even if they arn't named - however true or untrue the comments are?!
When played infront of the 'This Week' signature tune, it really brought home how brilliant a themetune the 'Big Brother' sig. tune is !
I cant believe how much press coverage this years Celeb BB is getting. Its always on the front page of the Sun etc but its been on the ITV News, all over GMTV etc.
The type of behaviour we have been witnessing is not out of the ordinary. Maybe it is to the politically correct, television-friendly, 'educated' middle classes, but even then I'm not sure.
We are still living in a world where people call the corner shop the 'paki shop', where the nearest a white person comes to socialising with an indian is popping down their local takeaway, where people call Indians names such as Popadom because they can't pronounce their real name.
Is this bad? Maybe, but I thought Big Brother was intended to reflect real life, and that is what it is doing.
Jade, Jo and Danielle are not being racist, and I believe that Channel 4's description of 'cultural differences' was pretty appropriate. Shilpa annoys the girls, whether through jealousy or other means. They are not picking on her because of her race. I propose that if she was white, they would still have issues with her and this stupid, embarrassing media storm would not have been created on what is really, a quiet news week where the weather would be making the front pages otherwise.
Jade, Jo and Danielle are not being racist, and I believe that Channel 4's description of 'cultural differences' was pretty appropriate.
I really don’t know how you can say that. If referring to Shilpa as Shilpa Poppadum isn’t racist, I don’t know what is. Next people will be saying “Paki” isn’t racist.
However, I applaud Channel 4 for showing this, because I think its raised a very interesting debate. The report and discussion on last night’s “This Week” was brilliant.
I really don’t know how you can say that. If referring to Shilpa as Shilpa Poppadum isn’t racist, I don’t know what is. Next people will be saying “Paki” isn’t racist.
Thank you very much Tessa Jowell but it is very important to take this in the whole context.
If a housemate had ginger hair, and was annoying the housemates, they might use his hair colour when talking about him in a derogatory sense. Now, at the very most, this is bullying, which shouldn't be tolerated, but it happens.
To me, racist behaviour is excluding someone because of their race, being violent or abusive to someone due to their race. What we are seeing on Channel 4 may be bullying, it may be ignorance, but I don't believe it's racism.
Not so much on the show (at all actually), but on the clips used to highlight the situation by the media so much has been taken out of context or blown out of proportion.
The main one IMO is about them mimicking her accent - well, haven't the likes of Rory Bremner made a career out of that!
Peter Bazzelgate, the Head of Endemol, has according to MediaGuardian now given his full backing to the show, saying "no mistakes" were made,
A couple of quotes:
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"There have been no mistakes in the running of this programme," he said.
"This has been a fairly typical series of Big Brother, which has uncovered surprising and controversial aspects of our life. It goes to the root of who we are, questions about our identity. That's what happens when you put 12 people together. We have obeyed the rules of broadcasting, it's not a mistake, it has been successful."
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Reacting to the record number of complaints the show has received, he said the internet allowed campaigns against programmes to be "whipped up" very quickly.
He said Big Brother was a programme in line with Channel 4's remit to "excite debate about matters of importance".
The OFCOM issue is interesting and something I wanted to bring up - is it infact arguably too easy to complain now, having to just fill in a form online?
As I've said before the level of complaints don't really matter - OFCOM have rejected 50,000 in the past, yet upheld programmes after just a single complaint.
I don't think Jade was racist. Her reaction was a fairly typical one to someone who she viewed as being overbearing due to that person's "status" or perceived status on their part.
Let's say a non-celebrity version of Big Brother had a white, sassanach, Managing Director of a large major bank as a housemate. Let's imagine that, true to everyone's expectations, this MD person starts being overbearing and patronising to everybody because of his status, or perceived status.
The person on the receiving end of this may take it, or - like Jade, they may break, and point out to that person that, regardless of what their status may be in their 'usual domain', they are not currently in their usual domain and therefore, they should not carry around an overinflated sense of self-importance.
That is perfectly justified, even if the way in which that is expressed may, or may not, be in metered language and may, or may not be expressed emotively. That is by the by and certainly not an Ofcom issue.
The only difference with Jade and Shilpa is that Jade referred to Shilpa's 'usual domain' in that her comfort zome comes from her success and therefore acquired status or perceived status as a Bollywood star. I haven't been watching closely, but from what I could tell in the short spell I saw, Shilpa seemed to be a spoilt little madam and a prissy prima donna.
Rightly or wrongly, conversations up and down the country tend to 'tag' any counterargument to whatever such a person thinks is the 'ace up their sleeve' with some distinguishing feature of theirs, whether it be the person's hair ("Oi, Goldilocks"), the fact that they wear glasses ("Oi, four eyes"), the fact that they come from a posh background (doubtless with all sort of 'Tim-nice-but-dim' impressions both behind their back and to their face or just aside of them), or the fact that they have a certain accent or come from a certain place - which MAY even be somewhere else in THIS country (e.g. making fun of a geordie's accent or standards). Now then, there is no reason why, if that certain distinguishing feature is being where they come from, if it is within the same country or a different country, should be treated any differently.
That is why I'm with Jade on this one, despite the fact I detest the show and the idea of getting everybody else to play servant to someone so undeserving of fame I don't know why anybody would want to be famous anymore. I also don't think Carphone Warehouse's reasoning behind pulling sponsorship is correct either, but on the other hand I'm glad because anything that can nail another coffin into this show, for me, is all the better.
I cannot believe the could-be prime minister is telling us who to vote for in a reality television show. The media and parliament have completely gone over the top with this...
Anna Jones said that there will be no public audience for the first time tonight, which isn't true, Gos, Jackiey and Jonathan were all evicted with no audience.
I like how The Sun want rid of Jade for being racist, when the Sun itself is hardly 'fair and balanced'. It's always got anti-Muslim headlines. The day before their Goody frontpage their headline was "BOMBER IN A BURKA". .
He was a bomber in a burka. That's a fact, not an opinion.
I wasn't aware they'd been found guilty by a court yet.
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