Shilpa Shetty was called to the diary room yesterday when Big Brother asked her if she thought Jade Goody and her pals had been displaying racist behaviour towards her. The conversation went something like this:


Big Brother: Shilpa, you mentioned you were not happy 2 days ago, BB noticed that you had a conversation with Cleo in the bedroom following an argument with Jade. You implied that you thought the differences between the two of you could be racially motivated?

Shilpa: No actually I take that back. I thought it was cos everybody was having an argument with me and I take that back. I don’t think that is true, you know people say things in a fit of anger and erm, I stand corrected so, I don’t want people to think and feel that way and I continue to feel that way. So even if I said it I would like you to please clarify and put this as a statement from my side if you can. That I don’t feel there was any racial discrimination happening from Jade’s end. Erm, I don’t think that is true. That’s it. I think that there are a lot of insecurities from her end but it’s definitely not racial. So yeah, that’s the way I feel.

So there you go Big Brother has cleared its name…or has it? Did they inform Shilpa of the snide and racist comments made behind her back? Does she now know that Jade has been calling her Shilpa Poppadom? Does she know that Danielle wishes that she would “f*** off home” and sneered that “she can’t even speak English properly”. Is Shilpa aware that Jo OMeara has mimicked her Indian accent, refused to eat food Shilpa has touched and claimed Indians are skinny because they get sick through eating undercooked food.

No, Shilpa is blissfully unaware off most of the nastiness that has been going on behind her back. She is in no position to decide whether or not their is racist behaviour being displayed in the Big Brother house as she is not privy to all the information. This was Channle 4’s way of weaseling out of their responsibility to put an end to the atrocious racism that is rife in the Big Brother house. Hopefully with the departure of Jade Goody from the house tonight, the problem will be taken out of their hands.