CBB To Say Sorry Over Race Row (and related threads merged)
 

there was racism in the cbb house sky sources say

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CBB To Say Sorry Over Race Row

Celebrity Big Brother will have to broadcast a series of on-air apologies for the Shilpa Shetty race row affair, Sky sources have learned.
Sky has also been told that footage of a racist limerick read out by contestant Jade Goody on the show did exist.
Shilpa Shetty

Producers Endemol had always denied the existence of such footage.

Ofcom will say Endemol breached the TV watchdog's code of conduct.

Goody, ex S-Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara and former Miss UK Danielle Lloyd were all accused of racially bullying the Bollywood actress during this year's show.

All denied they were racist.

In the unseen footage, Goody's boyfriend Jack Tweed makes up a limerick about Shetty.

The limerick begins: "There once was a house that was happy, until......"

The four of them then joke about using a word which rhymes with "tacky".

Big Brother producers ask O'Meara and Tweed into the Diary Room and tell them: "It is clear that this was a reference to the racial insult `****'."

Both agree.

Ofcom singled out another three occasions on which Channel 4 had failed to handle the situation appropriately.

They were: Jade Goody referring to Shetty as "Shilpa Poppadom"; Lloyd saying that Shetty should "******* off home"; and the argument over Shetty cooking a chicken, which ended with Lloyd and O'Meara making derogatory comments about Indian eating habits.

Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive, said: "An unprecedented number of complaints were received and, whilst Celebrity Big Brother was still on-air, we launched a full investigation.

"It is essential that broadcasters are able to air challenging and controversial material but in doing so they must have effective compliance procedures in place and must exercise their editorial duties responsibly."

Channel 4 will have to broadcast a summary of Ofcom's finding on three separate occasions.

This will be at the start of the first programme of the new series of Big Brother next Wednesday, the first re-versioned programme the following morning, and the first eviction show.

Endemol has not commented on the adjudication.

But Channel 4 said it accepted the ruling.

Chief executive Andy Duncan said: "We would like to say sorry once again for the offence caused to viewers as a result.

"Ofcom did not rule this material should not have been broadcast, but that we should have done more to contextualise it by challenging and reprimanding the offending housemates."
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Source:Sky News

CBB Ordered To Made Race Row Apology
 

From Sky News

Celebrity Big Brother has been ordered to broadcast a series of embarrassing on-air apologies for the Shilpa Shetty race row affair.

TV watchdog Ofcom also said footage of an offensive, racist limerick, thought to have been made up and read out by contestant Jade Goody, did exist.

Shilpa ShettyProducers Endemol had always denied the existence of the footage.

Ofcom said Channel 4 breached the TV watchdog's code of conduct and made a "serious editorial misjudgement" by airing footage of a racist rant by contestant Goody.

A statutory sanction will also be imposed on Channel 4.

Goody, ex S-Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara and former Miss UK Danielle Lloyd were all accused of the racist bullying of the Bollywood actress during this year's show. All denied they were racist.

Goody is thought to have read out a limerick with the words: "This house used to be happy, until that effing ****."

It is not known what the final word was. But it is thought to have been ****.



So it was true then?

Sorry. I didn't see it. You merged that one quick!

I'm bored..... LOL

Your story is slightly later and in more detail. Also you put yours in a different section from the orginal poster. Think it fits in better with Celebrity Big Brother.

:thumbs: You never finished your report off anyway. Did you get bored? lol

Which report was that?

I'm dyslexic and I don't remember anything in the 1 week to 15 weeks range then it all comes flooding back.

Your second post in this thread. It ends by saying "All denied they were racis......." :bigsmile:

See what you mean....... all sorted now and it's much longer.

Thanks :thumbs:

Read the transcript here:

http://www1.sky.com/news/transcript.pdf

Channel 4 ordered to broadcast a summary of Ofcom\'s findings at the start of series eight
 

As we get excited to see the new opening titles, we'll first have to sit through Ofcom's findings after CBB got a pasting....

It's all on BBC news website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6687091.stm

xxx

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They have to apologise on air 3 times. There is going to be one before it starts.

As far as i'm concerned, this is just gonna hold up the new series....

BOOOOOOOOOOO! :bawling:

All this free publicity! Endemol must be happy.

See the politicians can't leave it alone.

Source:LibDems

Has anyone read the transcript? It is very enlightning.

Ive just finished reading it and i agree, it is very enlightening. I still by what Ive said throughout that Jade has got a lot of the blame for this while Jack, Jo & Danielle have got away with to a cert in extent.

This confirms that the P word was never said out front but a substitute word was used instead. I think Jades behaviour could be categorised as bullying, bitching & stupidity, while i believe that some of Jo's comments could be categorized as borderline racist, maybe some might have crossed that line.

I think Jo's & jacks diary room conversations where very interesting, Jo's especially.

I wonder why a transcript of a diary room conversation with Danielle wasn't released.

Jack was well in the wrong too.

Very intresting.
Those transcripts explain a lot. Jack in my opinion was definately the worst, and Jo.

Its a shame becuase Cleo was innocently playing the game, and didnt understand the second meaning lol. Bless

Very interesting indeed.

the TV regulator has now agreed that there was racism in the house, from the parties we all knew and accused of it in the first place.

So much for the "Jade would never do that" mantra being spouted by blind apologists.

Although the more disconcerting issue here is the obvious plan by endemol to edit out the worst of it, perhaps they thought they could ride out what they did broadcast - and for several months they have.

Now we know the truth, they were being racist, were called on it at the time, despite the denials of C4 and Endemol.

Endemol edited out what could arguably be called the worst incidents.

For those seeking to apologise for them, just...because a racist comment wasn't broadcast does not mean that the speaker was not racist.

It only means that a managerial decision was taken to hide it and cover it up, as the full report states, Brighter Pictures [the producers] logged comments as racist in their daily logs but did not inform C4 about this.

So now we have it, in black and white what some have known since CBB.

they are scum of the highest order

end of story.

On a related note Davina on Paul O'Grady said the police had been through every single tape of the show and had found no evidence of racism, now we know that is untrue.

Which means OFCOM had access to material the police must not have had as OFCOM have said the material they adjudicated on is racist.

So did Endemol lie to the police, withhold some tape ?

Sooooo......they were racist after all, as most people could clearly see at the time. I can't say it surprises me - what does surprise me is that they have been told that they will have to apologise for what was said - I thought it would all be swept under the carpet.

It could well be that Endemol held certain material back from the police. Will their punishment be more than just an insincere apology I wonder?

Didn't Endemol say that they would not hand tapes over and would go to court if necessary?

I'm confused about the whole thing.

From what Ive read Jade, Jack, Jo & Dani where all wrong in what they said. Jo, Jack & Danielle said some thing which, imo, where racist. I don't think anything Jade has said was racist. Although i do think she acted like a jealous bully. I feel disappointed by Endemol. I don't see why they lied to the police and didn't hand over all tapes. Maybe its good n away because if this had come out when this was a big talking point i think they could have gotten more then a slap on the wrist and asked to say sorry. I see a lot of people are bringing up what Davina said on O'Grady, but i don't think you can really hold it against her. She just repeated what she was told.