Celebrity Big Brother Racism Row
January 18th, 2007 by BifSo it would seem there’s nothing like a spot of ignorant racist bullying to boost the old ratings - international relations be damned. Haven’t watched the show and what i’ve seen of it, from flicking through the channels desperately looking for something to watch in the early hours of the morning, indicates that it is essentially all about watching people, albeit celebrities(?!), sleeping. But, apparently, they do wake up long enough to throw racist barbs around. Channel4 have stated that “no overt racial abuse or racist behaviour” took place but there had “undoubtedly been a cultural and class clash”. Now exactly how overt your racism has to be, I’m not sure but telling Shilpa Shetty, an Indian national, to “go back to the slums” seems quite unambiguous to me. Still for anyone to feign surprise that people like Jade Goody, or her cohorts, think like this is ludicrous. Shows like Big Brother have celebrated the dumb and exhalted the ignorant from their inception. They’ve turned fame into an aspiration in itself and to hell with talent or intellect. You can’t smirk smugly at their stupidity one minute and then throw your arms up in horror at their ignorance the next. You sowed the seeds everytime you watched one of these shows or bought a celeb gossip mag, so now you can fucking well reap the rewards.
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January 18th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Well said, too fucking right!
January 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
“Celebrity” my fat Irish ass. As I said on another site, I hope this is the beginning of the end for Big Brother. These shitty “reality” shows are on all the bloody time in one form or another, and I’m sick to death of them. I don’t watch them but you can’t even open a fucking newspaper without a load of shit about what is or isn’t happening in today’s piece of z-list hasbeen/wannabe celebrity whorefest being in your face.
/rant
January 18th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I reckon this is what they all deserve - a custard pie in the face. There’s a company called gottabet who’ve promised a £10,000 reward if someone can do it. Check this out!: http://www.gottabet.com/event/detail/388
I’m getting on there. I can’t get to London, but I’m going to join in as I’d love to see it happen.
January 19th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Yes indeed. Absolutely right. I’m just about sick to death of these programmes clogging up my media. It’s on the front page of the Guardian FFS. Mind you, I did enjoy the obituary for the whole sickening show on http://www.asadodo.com - if only it really was the end.