[nodisharmony]

Needs some clarity

I MAY be in a minority of one here, but I still don't believe what happened in the Big Brother house was racist. It was bullying, it was offensive, it was cruel, but what you saw on screen wasn't racist.

That is absolutely true

It was about three silly girls who were jealous of a woman prettier, more sophisticated and more mature than they were.

Not true None of the three girls were silly. They knew exactly what they were doing and what they were saying. They didn't click with Shilpa Shetty and they did come to dislike her quite intensly at some points. There is nothing that Shilpa Shetty had, that any of the girls could possibly be jealous of. None of the three girls:- Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara or Danielle Lloyd would ever say that, because it is NOT true. The mature & sophisticated part is laughable really. Shilpa is a Bollywood film star & that is it. Okay, to some she's pretty. Plenty of pretty women & girls about, ya'know

Jealousy was at the root of what happened to Shilpa Shetty, NOT racism.

Incorrect assumption. It was about not clicking and was never about race either. So I shall say, "Correct fact" as regard the "NOT racism" quote

However, I do believe Channel 4 bosses deserved the pasting they got from Ofcom last week - it found the station guilty of "serious editorial misjudgement" - not just because they let the "racism" row happen, but because they positively encouraged it.

I would certainly add, that this timing was brought about, by a certain strategy being implimented at a particular time, so it would coincide with the new BB8 show. This is not so surprising really. But as yet, we don't know how it will affect things. The pasting is essential, as rules were broke by money-hungry Endemol.

And all these grovelling apologies now, all this collective beating of executive chests at Channel 4, is hypocritical baloney.

No choice for them really...It is damage limitation time. A kind of funny-hand-shake to kinda make things go away. That can happen anywhere, ya'know

They knew full well what they were doing, they saw what was happening, but they let it roll in the name of ratings. And because of it,

They certainly did & many are learning why

people have been damaged and careers have been ruined.

Yes, Jade, Jo & Danielle are the victims now and it isn't fair either

From Day One, Big Brother has always been about rows, controversy, sex and making headlines. It's about bringing out the worst in people. It's about putting people in a cage with no stimulus and splattering the resultant carnage over our screens. It's about laying bare the human psyche in all its gory glory. And with every new series, TV bosses have wanted more gore. Because the uglier and more freakish it gets, the more column inches and TV coverage it gets. And so all their claims that they never set out to create tension is rubbish. Of course they did.

It is all there, for the plain eye to see. But no one ever thought about meeting and not clicking with Shilpa Shetty. She has supporters who had never heard or liked her before, suddenly jumping on that great big bandwagon of hatred towards her so-called attackers, who are just Celebrities, who didn't ask for this either

I knew it just as everyone who's ever lived inside that house knew it.

Carol will know, just like she said. Unless you have experienced it, you can't really say. She can now

We knew that's why we were denied food and basic comforts. It's why we weren't allowed to read, write or talk to the outside world. It's why we were taken out of our comfort zone and plunged into an arena where we had zero control. And all of us who (willingly) subjected ourselves to that had our own agenda and our own reasons

Big Brother can be cruel or nice or naughty to any housemate. Change things and disrupt, annoy, whatever. But there will be some legal stuff mentioned, before housemates enter the house. It will be get-ya-pens out time first. Sign on the dotted line and agree to all kinds of stuf, which perhaps, you shouldn't have. Whoops, they'd say

including Shilpa Shetty who, like the rest of us, could have walked out any time she wanted to.

Some would wished she had have done

Channel 4 had a ratings winner in Big Brother but it went badly wrong, and instead of just admitting it and doing something to stem the tide of public revulsion, they let the blood-letting continue.

So many saw that & just could not understand it either. Why let the show go in that direction?? especuilly after it was first noticed? Perhaps it was about "Money", that's it, we've worked it out

And surprise, surprise - they're at it again. It's no coincidence that just three days before the start of BB8, Channel 4 are grabbing headlines that are nicely advertising the new series.

Money again

How clever of them to use the Ofcom report to spew out a million sorries

Not so clear on that point. Ofcom's involvement is a badly timed thing and will go against BB8 not for it

how clever of them to look like they're being responsible and to pretend they're going to create a new show they say will "embrace contestants from a range of religions, races and ethnic backgrounds, showing how people from different backgrounds can live together without tension".

Political correctness and welcoming all different types & kinds of housemates, making it very, very pretty indeed

Yes, and if that happens there'll be less than 10 people watching and you'll hear the rustle of tumbleweed across the BB garden as the series dies a death.

This is the worrying part, but I would say it will start great, but start to dip quickly, unless Endemol have a trick or twenty up their sleeve, which I hope they have?

And let me tell you a story about Shilpa that I didn't tell when I came out of the House because I wanted to protect her. Make no mistake, this is a girl who not only knows how to look after herself but she knows how to play a game to her best advantage. She's no victim - either of racism or anything else as I discovered the day she and I nipped into the BB loo (the only place there were no cameras or microphones) to chat about Jade's incessant sniping. I told Shilpa she had to deal with it, nip it in the bud before it got any worse.

"I won't have to," she whispered. "The Indian people will do it for me."

I looked at her blankly and said I didn't understand. "Carole, you don't realise I'm adored in India. People worship me and they won't stand for this. They'll take to the streets."

Thinking she was delusional, not knowing what was happening on the outside, I told her to get real and deal with what was happening. But Shilpa was not only smarter than Jade, Danielle and Jo, she was smarter than all of us, because she knew full well the Indian community would be up in arms about what was happening to her. She knew she didn't have to fight or to get down and dirty with Jade because people on the "outside" would do it on her behalf. And unbeknown to all of us - that's exactly what they did.

This sounds almost unbelievable really?? But if it were true, it will be explosive, that's for sure. I'll wait a bit, before commenting further on that point.

My point is that Shilpa is a tough cookie. She didn't deserve to be bullied but she certainly knew how to handle it, how to make the best of it and she wasn't remotely damaged by it.

Shilpa Shetty said that she had never experienced racism before and it was so strange and everything. But the story is making Shilpa to look like something more knowledgable. Very indestructable and Shilpa is indestructable, because she has a special following. Special, elite

Quite the reverse in fact. Being "bullied" has proved to be very profitable for her. She's met the Queen, she's about to launch a new perfume, she's bringing a Bollywood musical to London's West End and she's planning to open an upmarket Indian restaurant in London which will no doubt do a nice little gift line in stock cubes.

Shilpa will be so, so glad that everything has fallen into her lap. Jade Goody said once to her, that Shilpa should realise what living in the life of the slums is like. Can you imagine Shilpa Shetty entertaining something as demeaning as that??? She has the Prime Minister & the Queen & much bigger & higher class conquests to entertain.

So much for being a victim.

Today she's not!

But let's look at what's happened to the "bullies".

Yes, let's

Jade's career is over. She was publicly vilified and now can't get arrested, let alone a job.

It hurt & damaged Jade Goody, but she's fighting back, bit, by, bit & intends to win. Jade will win

Jo O'Meara became a public hate figure and until recently was receiving treatment for psychological problems.

Jo is really feeling it, but she is getting much better and has friends & family to support her. YES, real friends & a fan-club that love her, regardless

And Danielle - she was dumped by the man she loved, became an object of public derision and now makes a living posing for saucy pictures.

Danielle Lloyd is amazing and she is going from strength to strength, but she is still heartbroken over Teddy and Marcus has cheated on her and her lovelife is in tatters. This CBB5 race thingy didn't help her in her love-life department, I'll tell you

Those girls paid the price for what they did.

More than paid the price

And if Channel 4 need to be castigated for anything, it's for hanging these girls out to dry - forcing them to face the barrage of public hatred alone which they had to do in the face of their irresponsible editing.

This would be a fair thing to do, but if they admitted this, then all three girls would run straight to their lawyers and sue their ar*es off for millions in damages. So apologies and careful wording is sorting this out. It is a delicate process, which needs fine handling, you know

Yes, those girls were cruel, yes, some of their remarks were racially distasteful, but nothing they did warranted the destruction of their careers or their lives.

The end justified the means, so the money-hungry lot thought. Sad & Sorry & now we have this New Rule book, which could spoil everything?

Channel 4 had a responsibility for all of us in that house.

So they did

And some of us were let down very badly.

Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara, Danielle Lloyd & even Jack Tweed & to just add one more name:- Jackiey Budden







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