[*mazedsalv**]

So another year has gone and another year of OFCOM receiving lots of pointless complaints about the current series. It's pathetic to see. The question is... have BB viewers in general become much more sensitive, or are the new viewers much more sensitive than they were back in the C4 era pre Shilpa/Jade?

Looking back at BB6, if that aired now, we would have had numerous ejections or at least formal warnings that were never given out at the time.

Lesley- Kicked out for her treatment of Sam and threatening to beat her up outside the house.

Roberto- For his treatment of Sam and how he did things like throw bowls of pasta over people like Maxwell.

Makosi- "I know we'd have '*****' laughing at her" when talking about Craig.

Saskia- Nowadays would be seen as racist for her rivalry with Makosi and her comment "people like you have a chip on your shoulder" would be moulded as "black people have a chip on their shoulders" whether at the time she meant it as "drama queens like you" or "black people like you", is up for debate. Then there was her VT about immigrants bombing us, maybe why she never had friends outside the white English lot in BB6. Then "bunch of monkeys" when speaking of the others which primarily talking about the black HMs and Kemal. I recall Caroline saying the same thing about Adam in BB13 and got a warning for potential racist language,.

Maxwell- For threatening behaviour towards Kemal numerous times.

Science- For his rows in the house, leading to people like Orlaith crying, he would get warnings for that nowadays. Throwing water over Kemal. All these things would be seen as unacceptable nowadays.

Craig- His rows would be seen as threatening and he may have been called racist for his arguments with the black people in the house.

Anthony- For calling Derek a "malteser head", would be seen as unacceptable nowadays.

Kinga- For shoving that wine bottle you know where, there would be at least a warning for her nowadays.

Note how the Saskia group had all white people in their group, they disliked Vanessa, Makosi, Science and Derek at times. Nowadays, that divide would be seen as a racist divide.

I seem to recall that BB1-BB7, the warnings were always "strong language and scenes of a sexual nature" and that's it, nowadays on C5, it's "highly offensive language, nudity, sexual talk, aggressive confrontation, vitriolic tantrums". They even had "discussion of issues that viewers may find offensive" with the whole Harry "issues" thing. Jeez, the C5 series is tame compared to BB6. Imagine the sort of warnings BB6 would get if aired now. Well first of all, it'd probably be taken off as they would eject half of the cast.

Also to drop a older BB2 one in there, the much loved Helen Adams would have gotten a warning for threatening to "smack her one" when referring to a HM.