Ellie Young's Irish joke has offended quite a few people

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Ellie Young has made quite a few Big Brother viewers angry over a joke about the Irish.


Last night saw Ellie tell a tale of an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman who were driving in the desert when their car broke down.

They decided to each take a piece of the car with them, with Ellie explaining: "The Scottishman says, 'I'll take a car seat so when I get tired, I can have a sit down'.

"The Englishman goes, 'I'm going to take the radiator in the car, because if I need to drink there's water in there'.

"Well, the Irishman says, 'I'm going to take the side of the door'. And they were like, 'Why's that?'

"And he was like, 'Well, if it gets too warm, I can wind my window down."


The cheeky gag didn't go down well with those watching over the Irish sea.

"#bbuk Please inform Ellie that telling stereotypical Irish jokes went out with black/white TV. ******ing cheek, especially from that t**t" one complained on Twitter.

Another wrote: "@bbuk Why was Ellie's English~/Irish~/Scottish~/~man joke allowed? If it was "Pakistani, Indian & Jewish" she'd have got a formal warning."

A third added: "No Ellie. Englishman, Scotsman & Irishman jokes aren't really acceptable nowadays, especially when the 'joke' claims Irish are stupid. #BBUK"

And another viewer concluded: "Ellie just lost the Irish vote, Irish jokes not ok!! #bbuk"

But others laughed off the idea the joke was 'racist', branding complainers "snowflakes".

Big Brother 2017 continues tonight at 10PM on Channel 5.

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mess i completely forgot about this

[armand.kay]

eject her

[vesavius]

Always people ready to be perpetually offended. Probably the same people that condone and justify the sisters displayed racism and false assault accusation.

[Owen19]

Lock her up

[pontyboi]

Oh ffs these people need to get lives. They obviously live for BB and sit on the edge of their seats every night looking for something to complain about whilst having Ofcom on speed dial.

[Kazanne]

I thought it was funny.

[MB.]

The Irish to be allowed to vote for one eviction only? :fc:

[Mystic Mock]

I don't like Ellie, but a joke is a joke, there was clearly no mallice in what was said.

[armand.kay]

The Irish to be allowed to vote for one eviction only? :fc:

Wow poor Irish viewers forced to watch her horrid attacks on them and unable to even vote to evict her. Have they not suffered enough? smh.

[Withano]

I saw it was one of the top Facebook comments. Don't really get why - surely most people are familiar with the way that joke works.

[Jessica.]

As an Irish person, that joke really hurt my feelings. :(

[Vicky.]

Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman jokes are so common and I genuinely do not see how people can find them offensive tbh. Most of them are crap but I actually sniggered a bit at the one last night.

[andybigbro]

Such an OTT reaction. People need to get a grip.

[Daniel-X]

First she gets away with slapping Hannah, calling her 'usain bolt' and now this? Shocks me the lengths C5 will go to to keep their faves in!

[pontyboi]

As an Irish person, that joke really hurt my feelings. :(

I assume you're being sarcastic?

As a Welsh man I wouldn't take offence to any joke because that's all it is....a joke.

Tibb need a dictionary so people can define certain comments before becoming outraged lol

[pontyboi]

First she gets away with slapping Hannah, calling her 'usain bolt' and now this? Shocks me the lengths C5 will go to to keep their faves in!

Hanahaha! How did BB go from being pioneering and getting people talking about real life issues to people taking offence and actually wanting housemates to make apparent offencive comments so they can feel the need to complain and judge their actions?

[Vicky.]

Also


And another viewer concluded: "Ellie just lost the Irish vote, Irish jokes not ok!! #bbuk"

Someone should tell this tweeter that Irish people can't vote anyway, so losing their vote matters not :hehe:

(On that note why the **** haven't they sorted that? I find it absolutely ridiculous tbh)

[Mullens123]

Also



Someone should tell this tweeter that Irish people can't vote anyway, so losing their vote matters not :hehe:

(On that note why the **** haven't they sorted that? I find it absolutely ridiculous tbh)

Maybe they meant Northern Irish or Irish people living in the UK :shrug:

[Samm]

the civil war and now this attack by ellie?

[Vicky.]

Maybe they meant Northern Irish or Irish people living in the UK :shrug:

I thought NI people couldn't vote either...sure I have seen members complaining about this

Anyway, pretty sure the majority of irish people aren't snowflakes who get offended by someone sneezing in their direction or something so I'm sure everything will be fine...