Racism on Britain's reality TV "Celebrity Big Brother" sparks international row with India
By Sonny Le, Hyphen Advisory Board Member
The celebrity-edition of "Big Brother" on Britain's Channel 4 seems to have reveal the ugliness of British society when three white contestants ganged up on the Bollywood-star member of the house, Shilpa Shetty.
The invectives hurled at Shetty, especially from Britain's trash-talking darling of reality television Jade Goody, ranged from calling her a dog and telling her to go back to India, have yielded at least 20,000, at last count, complaints to Ofcom, Britain's broadcasting regulator, the FCC counterpart there.
On another note, I was surprised to find that we've exported our two B-list celebrities to the UK for this show as well: Dirk Benedict of the A-Team and Battlestar Galatica and Jermain Jackson. Yes, of the Jackson 5.
The best coverage has been done by the British and Indian press but the must-read site is Digital Spy, the UK's website about television and the entertainment industry. Check out the "Big Brother" forum.
Another site worth reading for a few good laughs is Jade Goody's own site. Apparently she also suffers from the same disease that has afflicted our own beloved president and another reality-created celebrity, Jessica Simpson. Here are a few choice quotes (You can't make this up!) listed on her website:
"They were trying to use me as an escape goat."
"Do they speak Portuganese in Portugal? I thought Portugal was in Spain."
"That's asexual harassment."
"I had my first birthday when I was one."
"Who is heinzstein?"
Posted by Melissa at January 22, 2007 1:29 PM
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Britains version of shock radio?
Posted by: RELAX at January 23, 2007 11:27 PM
Are English girls and women racist. The latest white English girl racist...Lucy Buchanan...who wants to be a plantation mistress with plenty of black slaves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6288301.stm
And then we have a morn white English female racist ballerina who is a member of the racist British National Party...and guess what she is engaged to a Chinese and the BNP is pleading with them not to have children...
Posted by: G. Chell at January 28, 2007 7:55 PM
I hate the British anyway.
Posted by: YES at January 29, 2007 11:22 AM
Posted by: bebetter at February 9, 2007 1:48 PM
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