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BIG Brother’s Darnell has told how he escaped with using the racist N-word — just like Coolio.

The black albino housemate said it on camera THREE times but was never reprimanded.

Rapper Coolio, 45, used it during a chat with Ben Adams in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother on Saturday.

Fearing yet ANOTHER race row bosses did not screen the exchange.

Darnell, who came fifth in BB last year, said: “I was warned against using the N-word after using it a lot in auditions. I think I said it by accident three times in the show, but very quietly.

“I said it to myself more than anything but I was scared I’d get into trouble.” But he said if producers heard him, they appeared to turn a deaf ear to the word.

Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Coolio, 45, used the word while describing an argument he’d had in a dream. The African-American’s comment rocked producers of the show — rested last year after 50,000 viewers complained at Jade Goody branding Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood megastar, ‘Shilpa Poppadom’ in 2007.

Emily Parr was ejected in 2007’s non-celeb BB for using the N-word to black housemate Charley Uchea. This year bosses promised a zero-tolerance approach to bad behaviour from the housemates and pulled 24-hour coverage to maintain more editorial control.

A BB spokesman said: “Coolio used the N-word in his descriptive retelling to Ben.

“This was immediately flagged to senior production staff at Endemol and C4.

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“After reviewing the footage, where Ben clearly took no offence from the word and no other housemates heard it, the footage was not broadcast in case it caused offence to viewers.

“Given the context in which Coolio used the word, no further action was taken. However, constant monitoring for any unacceptable language is ongoing. Big Brother is always prepared to remind all housemates of the rules when necessary.”

Darnell added: “What Coolio said was in context, to me that’s fine. Hip-hop is the music of our generation. But it’s difficult because when it’s used in music it means white people can’t sing it, but black people can, which is unfair.”

Source, The Sun