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SHAMED Big Brother star Emily Parr has won the support of her Welsh boyfriend’s parents following her shocking racist slur.
The 19-year-old Peaches Geldof lookalike stunned the nation on Thursday after being kicked out of the Big Brother house after calling black housemate Charley Uchea a “n****r”.
Her jibe has re-ignited the racism row that blighted Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year.
But despite throwing the show back into the headlines, the parents of Emily’s 19-year-old indie rocker boyfriend Alex Neal said they are standing by the Bristol beauty who is facing a fierce backlash from the media.
Speaking from their home in Chepstow, Alex’s mother Jackie Neal said Emily should not have been kicked out of the Big Brother house.
Instead, she said the makers of the show – Endemol – should be put in the house to experience the pressure contestants are put under.
Insisting that Emily’s comment was a mere slip of the tongue, she said: “I’d like to see all the executives from Endemol put in Big Brother and the key thrown away. It should be compulsory for them to do it. They should be put in the house and left to get on with it.
“The word Emily used isn’t nice, I don’t like it. When I heard what she had said I thought:, ‘Where did she get that from?!’ But she’s a beautiful, lovely girl and she’s only 19. She was just silly.”
Emily was this weekend back in the arms of Alex, who she has dated for the past two years.
He is thought to have travelled to London to be at her side.
Alex works as a waiter at a TGI Friday’s restaurant in Bristol. Until last month he was a drummer with his band The Fuselage. The group often play at the legendary TJ’s club in Newport.
Alex, meanwhile, insists his girlfriend is a loving teenager and has revealed how the pair often enjoy two-day sex romps.
But last weekend, one of Emily’s former Bristol college pals had warned that her opinions could land her in trouble.
One of them said: “She will have to tone down her opinions to do well in Big Brother.
“She’s a good girl, but she has a mean streak and some people don’t like her for that.”
Emily’s housemates, Charley and Nicky, were stunned when she blurted out her racist remark while they were talking in the garden at 8.20pm on Wednesday.
During a chat, Charley pushed out her hips and stomach and said: “I hope I’m not pregnant”, to which Emily replied, “You’re pushing it out, you n****r.”
Charley, visibly shocked, replied: “You are in trouble.”
Big Brother bosses had warned contestants against the use of offensive language before entering the house after the bullying of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty in Celebrity Big Brother sparked an international race row.
After hours spent discussing Emily’s remark, Big Brother woke her at 3.08am, hauled her into the diary room and told her she had to leave.
A horrified Emily defended her use of the racist word by saying she was “just joking around” and hadn’t meant to offend anyone.
She said: “It’s a friendly term, you know, making fun of people, being in a group.
“I would never use any offensive words like that, you know? I’m a kind girl, I’ve got a good heart for everybody. I wouldn’t do that, I know I wouldn’t.”
But despite her excuses, Emily has come under fire from some members of her own family.
Her uncle James Coughlin, 42, said: “I think what she said is terrible. It is completely disgusting and distasteful. I thought that word had been stamped out years ago – it is deeply offensive.
“Her parents will be devastated. I didn’t know those words could come out of her mouth. I can’t believe it’s the Emily I know.”
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