I gonna miss that arse too chaps, as well as a few others i guess.
According to the press today they might be pulling the plug on the whole show
Enough Is Enough: Big Brother Needs To Go
Only one week into Big Brother 8 and already Channel 4 is embroiled in another race row after Emily Parr called a fellow housemate a n*****. Surely now the broadcaster must concede that the reality show should be taken off air.
Channel 4 had billed this new series of Big Brother as a light-hearted romp, a return to the glory days in 2001 and 2002 when budding romances and binge-drinking were the most shocking things going on in the house. The last thing programme makers wanted was another racist incident so soon after Celebrity Big Brother, but that’s exactly what they’ve got.
Housemate Emily Parr was removed from the house at 3.30am this morning, June 7, after calling fellow housemate Charley a n*****. The incident took place at 8.30pm last night. Emily, Charley and Nicky were dancing in the living room when Emily, referring to Charley’s dancing, said, "Are you pushing it out, you n*****?" Charley and Nicky immediately pulled her up on the comment, but later said they weren’t offended.
This latest incident could not have come at a worse time for Channel 4, still smarting from the backlash to the Celebrity Big Brother race row in January. Programme makers took immediate action to remove Emily from the house overnight, obviously keen to show they were taking the incident seriously after they were accused of failing to act during January’s race row.
Ofcom received over 44,500 viewer complaints about the Celebrity Big Brother row, in which Jade Goody referred to housemate Shilpa Shetty as ‘Shilpa Poppadom’, and Dannielle Lloyd said the Bollywood star should ”f*** off home.” The media regulator ruled that Channel 4 was guilty of "serious editorial misjudgment" in its handling of the row and ordered the broadcaster to screen three on-air apologies – the final one of which was due to air before the first eviction show this Friday, but that eviction is now on hold as Emily was one of two housemates up for the public vote.
Emily’s racist remark was not screened as part of the "as live" streaming on E4 but Channel 4 bosses, in their wisdom, have decided it will be shown on tonight’s Big Brother highlights show at 10pm. Seems they just can’t resist the inevitable ratings boost that comes with screening such controversial content, despite the fact that Ofcom ruled they had contravened the code of conduct for continuing to air racist comments during Celebrity Big Brother.
Enough is enough. Channel 4 seems more interested in ratings than it is in protecting housemates and viewers alike from racial abuse. How many more boundaries need to be pushed before the channel finally concedes that the show should be taken off air?
