[zakman440]

There's a debate erupting on Twitter, so I thought that I'd pose the question here. Personally, it's a no from me as it's very tasteless to use someone's death as promotion for a reality television programme. If they wanted to pay some form of tribute, they could have dedicated the episode to him at the end of the credits or shown a clip on BOTS.

[Josy]

No. But I think they've clearly asked her and she oked it since they said all day she would be told off camera.

[Ross.]

Absolutely not

[joeysteele]

No, not at all.

[lewis111]

I think they told her off screen or maybe a friend told her off screen and they it's showing us her speaking to BB about wanting to go on

[Jake.]

not at all, "The Starman is dead" broke my heart a bit though

[LukeB]

No

[MrWong]

My only issue is when they've shown it. They could have shown it tomorrow with the rest of today's footage.

[Niamh.]

No

[Kazanne]

Just no

[RichardG]

They were obviously going to show some form of reaction from Angie in tomorrow's highlights but they never have a 'coming up tomorrow' segment at the end so using the death randomly tonight in that way as promotion is a bit distasteful

[Jack_]

So just to clear this up, they actually showed the clip of her being told? I just assumed since they said it was off-camera the clips they showed were like 'and tomorrow...Angie tells the housemates about Davie Bowie's passing'

She's obviously okayed it so in that sense it's fine with me...but tomorrow, you know when it's actually scheduled to be broadcast, not as some kind of teaser so people can get excited about it

[parmnion]

yes, of course they should as people will have tuned in to see if they did.

for me, as a massive bowie and bb fan it was the best ending to a very sad day as i was able to share some of her grief.

[Jarvio]

Can Bowie be added after David, to avoid confusion with Gest? (Although I know everyone pretty much knows it's Bowie)

[mr rochester]

It is entirely relevant to the programme. She will walk anyway...I don't see how they could have left it out unless she did leave and asked them not to show it as a mark of respect. This will not alter the outpouring of grief. What would have been bad is if a news programme showed his wife's reaction. Angie has not been with him for donkeys years and although she will be deeply affected she could have requested that they did not show her reaction. It would seem she has not done this.

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

So just to clear this up, they actually showed the clip of her being told? I just assumed since they said it was off-camera the clips they showed were like 'and tomorrow...Angie tells the housemates about Davie Bowie's passing'

She's obviously okayed it so in that sense it's fine with me...but tomorrow, you know when it's actually scheduled to be broadcast, not as some kind of teaser so people can get excited about it

no, they showed the clip of her reaction to it though, she was told off screen without cameras

[zakman440]

Originally Posted by Jack_

So just to clear this up, they actually showed the clip of her being told? I just assumed since they said it was off-camera the clips they showed were like 'and tomorrow...Angie tells the housemates about Davie Bowie's passing'

Not quite - they didn't show her being told (as you've writen, she was told off-camera by her management), but they showed a clip of her in the Diary Room I'm assuming right after she had been told with David and John comforting her right before the credit sequence.

[seanraff07]

Nah, definitely shouldn't have shown it.

[Vicky.]

No. I don't have any issues really with them showing the reaction or whatever if she said it was ok.

but using it as promo is disgusting. I'm half expecting to see a bunch of adverts tomorrow along the lines of 'tune in tonight to see how angie takes the news' and stuff

[zakman440]

Originally Posted by Jarvio

Can Bowie be added after David, to avoid confusion with Gest? (Although I know everyone pretty much knows it's Bowie)

I tried to but the title is already at the character limit, so I'm afraid not.

[MTVN]

Yeah I don't see why not. She's decided to stay so Bowie's death and her emotional state is going to be under a lot of focus in the house over the next few days, there's no getting away from that. We're going to see a lot of her reflecting on the news and her being comforted over it so why not also show this clip: BB realised that Angie's status in the house became a big talking point very soon after the news broke this morning and will have known that people were curious about how it would be handled and what decision would be made. This clip was just answering those questions.

[Calderyon]

zakman, just change David to DB and everybody will know who is in question.

And no, they shouldn´t have shown that.

[parmnion]

lets face it, we were all watching to see if they would

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

No shouldn't have been shown

[rionablue]

Originally Posted by zakman440

There's a debate erupting on Twitter, so I thought that I'd pose the question here. Personally, it's a no from me as it's very tasteless to use someone's death as promotion for a reality television programme. If they wanted to pay some form of tribute, they could have dedicated the episode to him at the end of the credits or shown a clip on BOTS.

Im with you on this one zakman. I thought it was in poor taste. People are going to watch the shows anyway and they know that the news was broken to Angie.