Channel 4 have received more than 1000 complaints that housemate Emily Parr was wrongly evicted.

On the Channel 4 discussion forum one person said:

“Emily has been used as a scapegoat due to the reprimanding of C4 by Ofcom for Celebrity Big Brother.

“A formal warning would have been severe enough.

“Emily will have a very tough time now and be branded something that she may well not be by the media and viewers for one word said in a non-offensive context.”

Ofcom have also received 140 complaints over the screening of Emily’s racist comment in BB by C4 last night.

C4 chief executive Andy Duncan has defended broadcasting the word uncensored.

Speaking on Radio 4 today, he said: “It was important to show it, to let people see the whole context in which it was said, and to form their own opinion about what was said and how she said it.”

He added that the incident was “regrettable but dealt with swiftly and precisely.”