Jo\'s Official Statement
 

There have been many requests for me to talk to the press this week and I appreciate that the Celebrity Big Brother issues are still high on the media agenda.

However, I am really shattered and totally devastated by the events of the past few weeks and have needed some time to recuperate.

In the meantime, I would like to say:

I have not seen the three weeks of the Big Brother programme footage, so I cannot comment properly on what people are saying about me or the programme. I have asked Channel 4 to forward the tapes, but as yet I have not received them and I would like to see what was shown to the public before I comment on the content or how it was edited.

The ONLY footage I have seen is the brief edited highlights by Davina during my eviction interview. I can only assume that other housemates will have seen the three weeks worth of footage by now and therefore are able to comment.

I have been advised that the programme tended to show me with Danielle and Jade wearing a dressing gown, smoking and swearing. I was particularly friendly with Jermaine, Cleo and Ian and I spent a considerable amount of time laughing, joking and singing - I honestly have no idea if any of this has been shown or whether I was only portrayed badly.

I have been told that I refused to apologise for any offences I may have caused. This is totally untrue, I may have behaved defensively when I came out of the Big Brother house and during my interview with The Sunday Mirror, but I had no idea of the extent of the issues.

I was taken out of the Big Brother house and put in a room with a camera and a psychiatrist with no advisors, family or friends and given a pile of newspapers to read and I was also informed that there had been death threats over the Shilpa row.

I asked Davina as we walked through the crowd after my eviction if everything was OK as I felt that something was wrong but she assured me that everything was fine and I had nothing to worry about.

Therefore, my shock and confusion was magnified by what greeted me with the press cuttings, death threats, the highlights tape and the tone of Davina's interview. I now understand Danielle came out with Jack and they were interviewed together and when Jade came out there were no crowds at all. I felt like the 'rabbit in the headlights' with nowhere to hide and no-one to talk to.

I'm sure the public realise that the show makers don't brief the housemates on what to expect or how the programme may develop. I met a psychologist a few minutes before I entered the house who said I was fine to join the housemates and I think that as a group we would all have coped better if some of the surprise stunts hadn't been pulled by Big Brother.

Jade and her family entering the House late and the introduction of a slave/master culture is bizarre by anyone's standards and automatically creates tension and a divide. There were many instances of manipulation by the programme makers and they have to take responsibility for their actions too.

I may have made some mistakes but I have apologised for them and in the context of the three weeks of Big Brother, I honestly believe that I was not a horrible person every day throughout the series.

Many of us in the house had not heard of Shilpa before Big Brother and some of the events which took place led a few of us to speculate that as with Chantal in the last Celebrity Big Brother, she may have been a plant.

Again, this doesn't excuse bad language or behaviour but it can lead to heightened stress and anxiety. I also understand she is doing brilliantly since she won Big Brother and I sincerely and genuinely wish her every success and happiness.

I have been asked why I did Big Brother. It was simply because I needed the money. I did have a successful singing career in S Club but that was over several years ago. I may lose my house and the fee offered was a life line which I took.

Maybe my personality isn't right for this type of show and of course it has left me damaged but I hope people don't think that I deserve to be vilified day after day as an ongoing punishment. I came out of the house with no professional advisors. I don't have a manager and the gentleman who was doing my PR unfortunately died of an angina attack last weekend.

I am not asking for pity but I do need to see the Big Brother tapes for myself. I may have been shown on national TV saying and doing things that I sincerely regret and of course I am genuinely sorry . But does the Big Brother coverage sum up who I am and what really happened in the Big Brother House all day, every day?

In a goldfish bowl clever editing, boredom and manipulation can result in issues on several levels. We have all witnessed celebrities, public figures and members of the public making mistakes, having affairs or behaving badly on TV or in the press, but are they vilified to this extent and punished day after day public ally throughout the country.

I am totally shattered and after the death threats am scared to go home. Am I the first person in the world to make a mistake or say regrettable things? I am devastated, sorry and honestly have no idea what I will do next.

Now way she writ that all herself!

The person i saw on GMTV couldnt pick up a pen let alone write this. I thought she was so ill that she was under psychatric care.

She has done press interviews, so this so called demand is weird. She done GMTV and a newspaper.

Of course she didnt!! all the statements that Danielle and Jo etc give were written by someone else!! they dont even know what a pen looks like!

it was written by Sky News as it was them who delivered the statement

Very good pen work there Jo


Lol yeah right

Thats not a personal statement then, if one can write statements for others and that can be seen as being autobiographical then heres my attempt

Official Statement By James (SuperAdmin)

"I would just like to say that I adore Shilpa-2-win immensely and often dream about her being mylife partner.

I realise that she has made every attempt to show me her feelings, but I am a shy lad who worries she is joking and dont want to let her know how i feel just incase i look silly.

I hope that she reads this and understands that i have undying love for her, hopefully one day i will have the courage to tell and show her"

:tongue::tongue::tongue:

^ LMAO You had to make this about you and James, eh Missy? :joker:

But I do agree with you :joker:

Chup with your unhelpful posts and assist me in a plan to get James :sad:

Thanks for the Info

LOL Tik Hain Fool. Im working on "Project Missy for James" now

Edit your post that you quoted me, it says "male" instead of "make" :joker:

:hello: infact all shilpa fans should help me........ its about solidarity

Im gonna steal him

:banana:


*Runs away*

sounds like a book is on the way.
yawn.:sad:

Are you a gay psylocke?

She blaming BB for alot of this, like they put words in her mouth.

remember at the end of this interview, which were her original thoughts, she says "i was being myself"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWL7...elated&search=

^^^
notice she actually smirks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2z_zx9_6Q&NR

Psylocke's bisexual:thumbs:

I'm sick of hearing about Jo and her 'poor me' attitude. I didn't like to see her looking destroyed on GMTV, but that whole statement smacks of her saying 'it wasn't my fault, blame the editing.'

That article is a pile of shite. I already had little sympathy for the girl and now and I can say that I have NO sympathy for her. She's acting like a nine years who's been caught being naughty. She's blaming others instead of admitting to her mistakes. All this bull about clever editing. Dirk, Cleo, Ian and Jermaine have all said they saw the bullying. If they saw it then how can our perception of her be down to clever editing? It doesn't make sense.

How can she blame the editing anyway, when she says that she hasn't watched the footage? Any sympathy I had for her has gone.

What a crock of poo!

As if!

So when will you lot be holding this burning at the stake of all three, or is that five?

What a lot of cynicism here, and what short memories :nono:

The issue of the editing goes way back to BB2 at least.

As well as Cyber Devil's Advocate to Jade, I also had Michelle (BB5), as one of my clients, and the editing was atrocious, as at one point she was leading the field, then carefully staged "tasks" coupled with nifty editing turned her to bunny boiler and public enemy number one, just so the PC choice of Nadia was not threatened.

By thinking of Jo as illiterate as you imply, means you have bought in to the lies propergated by C4 and Endemol.

Thanks to the way this was mishandled there is the possibility that Jade, Jo and Dannielle could be sent to prison for seven years. Not long enough, I hear you all yell.

Sorry guys, but public executions were abolished years ago.

The only person who can legitimately make a complaint is Shilpa Shetty and so far I am not aware that she is wishing to press charges.

There is always an issue of editing. I think that Jason in BB5 was appallingly edited. But the way Jo blames the whole thing on the editing is not acceptable and frankly not believable.

It's true! Read on.....


MODEL Danielle Lloyd was quizzed by cops last night — the first of SEVEN housemates to be questioned over the Celebrity Big Brother race row.

The former Miss GB spent more than an hour with police — as a witness — at London solicitors Schillings.

Police sources revealed others in the unlikely line-up are Jade Goody, Jo O’Meara, Jade’s mum Jackiey Budden, Dirk Benedict and Jermaine Jackson — for his comment about “white trash”.

Winner Shilpa Shetty could also be interviewed over insults directed at her.

In theory police could bring charges of incitement to racial hatred — carrying a maximum seven-year jail term — over alleged comments made in the house if there was enough evidence.

Danielle was supported by her lawyers as police questioned her. Her spokeswoman said the model had requested the interview “because she wanted to co-operate and raise her own concerns too.” Her agents earlier said they wanted to speak to police over claims she was “misrepresented” on BB.

Lloyd's spokeswoman said the model had requested the interview "because she wanted to co-operate and raise her own concerns too".

Her agents earlier said they wanted to speak to police over claims she was "misrepresented" on the show.

Lloyd was stripped of her Miss Great Britain title over her relationship with a contest judge, footballer Teddy Sheringham.

She also breached competition rules by posing topless for Playboy magazine.

Contest bosses, in a website statement, said they wanted to disassociate themselves from Lloyd and the race row.

They added: "With hindsight, it would have been better not to have fired Danielle last November because we could have fired her today - and if we could fire her twice we would!"