Tonights Celebrity Big brother eviction will be a quiet affair, as Channel 4 have told the ticket holders who were attending the event that they would not be granted entry.

After a week long row over racist comments in the house, it is thought that Jade Goody will be leaving tonight and Big brother think it would be unsafe and unfair for jade to emerge to such a hateful reaction.

In a statement today, Channel 4 stated:

“Over the past few days, Celebrity Big Brother has generated an intense and, at times, heated public debate which the evicted housemate will be unaware of.

â€?As a result, Channel 4 and Endemol have taken the decision to conduct tonight’s eviction in front of a studio audience and without a crowd.”

Ticket holders for tonights show will be invited to next weeks eviction instead. Pity…I would have liked to see Jades face when she realised how wrong she had been to go back to the show that made her famous.

Jade Goody supporter Mark McGowan has stated on his website today:

Supporters of Jade Goody are to meet up this Saturday 20th jan 2007 at 11am outside Bermondsey tube station where they will be voicing their support of Big Brother contestant Jade Goody. Effigy’s of Shilpa Shetty will be burned, in aprotest against allegations of racism, which the supporters of Jade Goody believe are totally unfounded.
Mark McGowan one of Saturdays event organisers said, ‘everyone in south London is behind Jade. i think what they are doing is wrong Jade is a good person and is in no way racist, we support Jade 100%, Shilpa Shetty is manipulative and is tricking everyone, she is the cause of all this trouble. We are going to burn the effigy’s in protest, Simon Ould another of our group is making them tonight. We want everyone from Bermondsey to turn out and show their support for Jade’

for more info

Name: Mark McGowan 07944533010

Email: chunkymark1974@yahoo.com

I really hope that no one shows up….These people are not doing this to support Jade, rather I would wager that these people are hungry for the media attention they are sure this will attract. Organiser Mark McGowan has very often demonstrated in weird and wonderful ways before.

Wikipedia reports:

He entered the headlines in 2004 whilst protesting about student debt. To achieve this he claimed to have rolled a peanut from London’s Goldsmiths College to 10 Downing Street using only his nose. He followed this up by sitting in a bathtub full of baked beans with chips up his nose and sausages around his head, claiming to be the defender of the full English breakfast. His next effort involved pulling a bus with his big toe in protest at London’s transport strategy. He has also cooked and eaten a fox to highlight the plight of “crackheads”.

In April 2005 McGowan once more gained publicity after being accused of ‘keying’ cars in a number of cities, a practice involving the scratching of cars using a key. This attracted the attention of the police, though McGowan defended his actions in a television interview on Channel 4 News by stating that his actions had become “compulsive-obsessive” and that “I [McGowan] suppose it’s like a social experiment testing why people do it.”

He was back in the news in July 2005 for his installation “The Running Tap”, where he left the water running in the backroom kitchen of a London gallery to protest leakage problems with London’s private water company, Thames Water. His installation wasted 9,200 gallons of water a day, and if left on for a full year as he intended, would have wasted 3.9 million gallons of water and cost $23,320. It was turned off several times by protesters of the protest. He turned the tap off for good on 29 July following threats of legal action from the water company.

From Boxing Day, 2005 to January 6, 2006, McGowan crawled on all fours from London Bridge to Canterbury Cathedral. He pulled 18 boxes of chocolates on strings attached to his arms and legs and carried a sign saying: “Could you love me?”. This is to highlight the loneliness felt by some around Christmas time.

In November 2006 McGowan performed Dead Soldier 2006, on New Street, Birmingham, where he lay down in the road dressed as a soldier for one week.

In January 2007 vegetarian McGowan tucked into a swan outside an art gallery in London’s East End. McGowan was protesting about the upper classes and the Queen.

This latest protest hardly sends out a positive message to ethnic minorities who already think that Britain is crawling with bigoted racists! Give it up Mark would you?

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.

At a press conference today at the Oxford Media Convention 2007 Andy Duncan, Channel 4’s Chief Executive, made the following statement:

“In the seven years it has been on air Big Brother has seldom been far from the headlines.

The reason it commands so much attention, intentionally or unintentionally, is that it goes to the heart of who we are as individuals and as a society.

The latest series of Celebrity Big Brother has strayed into particularly controversial territory – the issue of racism and whether or not it remains ingrained in British attitudes despite all the progress we have apparently made towards becoming a truly multi-cultural society.

The level of complaint and comment shows the programme has touched a real nerve.

The debate has been heated, the viewing has at times been uncomfortable but, in my view, it is unquestionably a good thing that the programme has raised these issues and provoked such a debate. These attitudes, however distasteful, do persist – we need to confront that truth.

What constitutes racism is a complex question. We have been monitoring extremely carefully events in the house and have reached the view that we cannot with certainty say that the comments directed at Shilpa have been racially motivated or whether they stem from broader cultural and social differences.

We have already intervened with Danielle and, as viewers will see tonight, again with Jade where we felt their comments might be construed to have racist overtones. Producers also spoke to Shilpa today who said she did not feel that behaviour towards her was racist.

We will not hesitate to intervene again if apparently racist behaviour occurs.

Big Brother’s unique strength is that it is ultimately the public who will decide whether or not the behaviour of certain contestants has been unacceptable.

Tomorrow night Jade and Shilpa will face the public vote. The British public has the opportunity to cut through the claim and counter-claim and pass its judgement on the events of the last week.

In the last 25 years Channel 4 has undoubtedly played a major role as a broadcaster to inform and educate viewers about issues of race. This is a role that I intend Channel 4 to continue playing�.

I think much of the problem will be taken out of Big Brothers hands tomorrow night as no doubt Jade Goody will be evicted from the show. Without Jade, I imagine the others will flounder and will lack the bravery to stand up to Shilpa themselves. At that point I think an uneasy truce will be reached as Danielle and Jo try to reintegrate back into the main group.

I am glad that the end of this episode is in sight, by the sound of Andy’s statement above, Channel 4 have no intention of intervening. Hopefully within the next 48 hours, Jade will be out and we can be left to enjoy the final week of Celebrity Big Brother in relative peace.

The Big Brother studios are today crawling with Hertfordshire police after they received more than 30 complaints about racial abuse on the Celebrity Big Brother show. The police have recorded the bullying and abuse in the house as a racial incident.

In a statement police said: “Hertfordshire Constabulary is investigating allegations of racist behaviour in the Big Brother house and will be conducting enquiries, including a review of the tapes.

“We will continue to liaise with Ofcom and with Endemol, whom we have strongly encouraged to ensure that any form of behaviour that could raise similar concerns, does not occur.

“We will continue to closely monitor the situation over the next few days.

“Hertfordshire Constabulary will not tolerate racism in any form and is taking these allegations seriously.

“The constabulary has experience of investigating and resolving incidents in the Big Brother house in past seasons.”

This article was written by Evelyn Lewis.

Let us put an end to all this nonsense.

As I am neither British nor Indian and not a racist, I feel free to write from the heart without having to tip toe around… A lot has been said about three girls in the BB house, who have offended Shilpa (were they supposed to keep quiet and let her treat them any way she liked, as she did her fair share of screaming insults, swearing and abusing and over trivial things like chicken cubes).

It has been pointed out that Shilpa Shetty and Jermaine Jackson are guests and from foreign countries (earning a lot of money and by going into BB, agreeing to be ‘just another housemate’ with the advantage of being famous for something they have achieved in their lives) then surely their behaviour should be better towards their British inmates who are representing the host country, the country that has kindly invited them and as I have said, allowed them to make a lot of money, which they will be taking out of the country.

Instead they have as good as called the British subjects in the Big Brother house, white trash and beneath their class. Because you are a celebrity it does not make you any better than the next person it just means you have been fortunate enough to have a gift which has worked for you. Now here we have three British subjects having their reputations and futures destroyed, in their own country, for playing the BB game as they have seen it played in the past.

Be fair it is a BB production where anything goes to win (look at past episodes) with some playing harder than others. India must be complimented for their loyalty but it would be nice if they could look at both sides of the coin. As I have said before, I would not like any of the five involved in all the unpleasant goings on in the house, to win, as they have all behaved very badly but there are some well behaved people left in the house, for example Dirk Benedict and especially Chloe Rocus who has not had a bad word to say about anyone.

On the issue of racist behaviour. It goes both ways. There are whites who have been murdered for their religious beliefs in some non-white countries, well it has not come to that in BB but three young British women have had their reputations and future ‘murdered.’ Forget colour and culture and see this for what it is JUST ANOTHER BIG BROTHER COMPETITION AND PLEASE BE FAIR TO ALL.

There has been anapparent leak at Big Brother headquarters and the Media Guardian claims to have found out which housemates are up for eviction this week.

The two housemates who were nominated are reportedly Shilpa Shetty and Jade Goody….I wonder who will go eh?

In case you didn’t know, here at Unreality TV we are backing Shilpa Shetty to win….so get voting!

We wondered why Danielle approached Shilpa today, as nice as pie and telling Shilpa that she shouldn’t feel left out or isolated. I thought I had heard it wrong, Danielle trying to be nice…what is going on.

While getting ready and fixing her hair, Danielle blurted to Shilpa:

“Shilpa, I don’t like arguing with anyone and I don’t want to argue with you.”

“Don’t worry, I’m cool,” said a slightly taken aback Shilpa as the pair embraced. “You were never like that with me.”

“I don’t want you to feel left out, I feel really bad and I’m not a bad person,” insisted Danielle.

But tonights Big Brother show explains it all. Yesterday Big Brother called Danielle Lloyd to the diary room. They asked her about the argument and she was in the midst of blaiming it all on Shilpa when Big Brother asked her what she had meant by saying “I wish she would just f*** off and go home.” For once Danielle was speechless. It was a sight to behold!

All at once you could see the realisation creep across the former Miss Great Britain’s face. She suddenly heard how it might sound to the public, she realised that her comments and attitude could be construed as racist, nasty and bullying. She panicked.

Danielle resolved there and then to make it up with Shilpa. Saying that she had learned that she should no longer follow the crowd and should just be herself. I take that to mean that she will put on a front for the rest of the show in case the public get another glimpse of what she is really like inside.

It seems as though the world is divided into two camps today. Those who believe that Shilpa Shetty is not a victim of bullying or racism, and those who would like are disgusted and disappointed by the antics of three girls who should know better.

I have to say that while our contributor Evelyn falls into the first camp, I really believe that Danielle Lloyd, Jo O’Meara and Jade Goody are completely in the wrong on this occasion. In a small way I do pity them, I can only imagine how they will be received by the public when they exit from the house. I can see this episode damaging their careers for years to come.

The only people that seem to be staying quiet on this issue are The Big Brother team themselves. It is obvious that both Russell Brand and Dermot O’Leary have been warned to avoid the topic at all costs…..not an easy task when John McCririck is a guest on your show. Channel 4 have issued very bland and non-committal statements saying that they believe the girls behaviour is not racist but just female bitchiness…or words to that effect. But anyone can clearly see that if not being racist, then the girls are definitely bullying Shilpa out of envy or jealousy. Either way they need to be warned that it is not acceptable.

Shilpa may not have many friends in the Big Brother house, but her popularity has soared out in the real world. There have been protests held in India today by her fans, who burned effigies of Big Brother bosses, and slightly more frighteningly, the show’s producers, received two emails that made threats towards a number of the housemates and police have confirmed that they are investigating. Thousands of people have complained to OFCOM about the racist behaviour they have witnessed and many more thousands have also been signing petitions aimed at Channel 4.

Shilpas plight even made it into the world of politics today when Prime Minister, Tony Blair, spoke out against racism in the House Of Commons. Chancellor Gordon Brown also spoke made a statement about the racism row whilst in India today.

I predict that Shilpa Shetty will no doubt have the last laugh in this whole saga. We are backing her to win, but even if she doesn’t, her fame has now spread worldwide. She will be known for her maturity and her dignity, while the other three would be well advised to creep away and hide for a few months until people forget how hateful they really were.

Anti Bullying campaigners, Bullybusters have today spoken out against the recent behaviour of Celebrity Big Brother contestant, Danielle Lloyd.

Speaking to The Liverpool Echo Bullybusters coordinator Kayte Eaton said: “In these sort of circumstances victimisation often occurs, especially as Shilpa comes from a different class and culture.

“Instead of picking on her behind her back, one of them should take her to one side and talk through their differences. I do not think it is racist, though.�

OFCOM have received over 4000 complaints over the last few days about the alleged bullying and racist treatment of Shilpa Shetty at the hands of the Big Brother housemates. On our blog alone we have been inundated with messages of support for Shilpa. To read some of these comments click here.

Jade Goody has been dropped from the website of an Anti-bullying charity that she supports.

AAB (Act Against Bullying) said that Jade’s treatment of Indian Bollywood star, Shilpa Shetty was “unforgivableâ€?.

The charity, which Jade has backed for two years, has removed her picture from its website.

Founder Louise Burfitt-Dons said: “She has supported us, yet she has proven vulnerable to letting out the aggressive instincts we all have.�

For more details on the recent racist bullying claims click here.

OFCOM have revealed that they have received more then 200 complaints against alleged racist remarks and attitudes displayed against Shilpa Shetty in the Big Brother house.

Here at Unreality TV we pointed out some of the housemates racist attitudes on our forum almost a week ago, and we have also given our opinion on the bullying of Shilpa Shetty by Danielle Lloyd and Jade Goody.

The treatment of Shilpa in the Celebrity Big Brother house has often been horrendous. Jackiey started the trend by constantly speaking down to Shilpa and by calling her “Indian”. Not one other housemate who heard Jackiey using this term told her it was unacceptable.

Danielle, Jade and even Jo have continued where Jackiey left off, often bitching about Shilpa, using every excuse to snipe at and criticise her. Over the weekend, former beauty queen Danielle Lloyd and ex-S Club 7 star Jo O’Meara poked fun at Shilpa’s accent. Yet not one has been able to give a justifiable reason for their grudge against the Bollywood beauty.

Other housemates have noticed the treatment that Shilpa has been receiving, ex-Steps star Ian claimed: “It’s turning into that film – Lord Of The Flies.”

“Were they bullying Shilpa last night?” asked Jermaine Jackson today.

“Yeah,” Ian replied. “I’m not playing those games. I’m not going to be part of it.”

OFCOM are currently wading through the complaints that continue to bombard them. An Ofcom spokeswoman said: “We have had approximately 200 complaints of racism.

“Quite a lot of websites have been discussing the issue and urging people to get in contact with us. We will look into each individual complaint.”

I hope that this whole episode will spell the end of both Jade’s and Danielle’s celebrity careers, they are a pair of venomous young women, with no backbone or individuality. They are the Big Brother equivalent of the school yard bullies. Jo I think has fallen in with the wrong crowd. She often realises that things have gone too far, and she certainly thought that Danielle had been excessive in her treatment of Shilpa last Friday, but so far Jo has been unable to speak out against Jade or Danielle. If she remains affiliated with the pair, they will be her downfall.

Wherever there is trouble, wherever there is bitchiness, wherever there is Danielle lloyd, there is Cleo Rocos!

If Cleo Rocos hadn’t been in the Celebrity Big Brother house this year the lord knows what the celebrities would have descended into by now. Take last nights fight between Danielle and Shilpa for example.

Not only did Cleo manage to calm Shilpa and reassure her that she would not be allowed to become ostricised and bullied, but she then approached the wicked witches of the west, Danielle and Jade Goody and persuaded them to kiss and make up with Shilpa, whom they had treated horrendously all night.

Cleo then proceeded to repeat to the group her mantra “united we stand, divided we fall” and tried to explain to the younger girls that Shilpa comes from a hugely different cultural background to them and that they should try to be more understanding towards her.

I really respected Cleo tonight. She was not afraid to get involved, even with the witches themselves, who could have turned on anyone. She satyed neutral, calmed the whole situation and I imagine she will go on trying to build bridges between the group members over the coming days.

That woman deserves a medal….Cleo To Win!

I have seen a really nasty and bitchy side of Danielle Lloyd over the last few days in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

She is constantly talking about Shilpa when she leaves the room, she called her a dog tonight and then she was complaining to anyone that would listen about the dinner that Shilpa cooked.

However when Shilpa asked Danielle if there was a problem, ro if she had upset her in any way, Danielle was quick to deny that anythign was wrong. When Shilpa asked her why she had snapped earlier, she went on to assure Shilpa that she was one of her favourite people in the Big Brother house….an obvious lie.

Later in the evening Danielle and Jade went on to fight with Shilpa for some obscure reason that even Danielle had forgotten by the end of the argument.

If the girl isn’t going to be honest then she needs to stop being so bitchy and vocal about what she thinks of Shilpa. Does she forget that millions of people watch this show every day? Does she not realise that Shilpa will see all this when she gets out? Is the girl thick?

.. in the morning (well, it was yesterday at 1.15pm)
..on the early train (ok, using a rake, you’ll break open the ’secret’ door in the garden).. Apologies for abusing one of Leo’s great songs

Tsk at little Leo Sayer, denying us the chance to boo and jeer him as he was duly evicted from the house. Instead, he saw his bottom and engineered an argument that would allow him to leave the house with his dignity (?) and ego intact. How on earth was he still granted an Eviction Show interview? Surely (and I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong) if you walk, you don’t talk, at least not to Davina. Perhaps she just wanted to make sure he knew that if he’d stayed, he would have been evicted last night, instead of Carole.

Yes, the second person to be officially evicted from the Big Brother house was Carole Malone. I’ve never really warmed too much to Carole, although she wasn’t the evil bitchy cow I thought she would be. It’ll be interesting to see just what she has to say about the whole experience in the Sunday Mirror in the morning – and hopefully she’ll reveal which celebrity she felt was ‘constantly acting, and resorted to tears too often’. Just a bit of a guess, but my money is on Shilpa.

Carole also didn’t seem to understand that if Leo had stayed in, it would have been him sat there talking to Davina. I’m fairly sure that once that bit of info sinks in she’ll have a few scathing comments to make about him.

At least Dirk survived the chop, even though his behaviour over the whisky was a tad bizarre. I’m still hopeful he will win, but he needs to distance himself from Shilpa, who is becoming more and more manipulative as the show progresses. The house is also looking a little bare – will BB be bringing in more housemates to replace the 3 who have walked? And does this number of absconders spell the death knell for future series of Celebrity Big Brother?