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Celebrity Big Brother 2007

Guineveretoo said:
Is it possible that people voted for Shilpa to be evicted, not because they are racist and thought the bullying was acceptable, but because they wanted Jade to be given the chance to redeem herself, and were happy to see a rich, successful, cultured etc. etc. woman leave instead?

I mean, if Shilpa were to have been evicted, she would have been feted by the media and by politicians, and she has certainly raised her profile in this country. If she is looking to make contacts in the British and American film industry, she has certainly got her face known. Presumably, she will have a visa which allows her to stay her for several more weeks, so she could use that time to promote herself in the wake of Big Brother. If she wins it, she will be stuck doing stuff for Channel 4 as the winner?

Just a thought :)
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she will be able to promote herself and discuss film roles etc, whether she win's or not.

The winner will have to do certain things for C4/Endemol but they can do loads of other stuff too.
 
Guineveretoo said:
I don't think her laughing at the row between Jade and Shilpa was overtly racist, but it was very nasty indeed.
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i still don't think she's ar acist and she has mentioned several times that she giggles and laughs a lot when nervious....
 
Random One said:
really? so did the live stuff start half way through bb1 then? (i have never watched it live till this one!)
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yeah it was the reason e4 started it was great no fuck sound outages no fucking pannign away to blank screenings etc the whole nasty nick thing was supurb all live... 24 hours..
 
Guineveretoo said:
Carole Malone said on BBBM last night that Jade had done a deal with one of the Sunday Papers (I think she even specified that it was the News of The World) and that she would probably use it to try and salvage her career. Ms Malone seemed to think that Jade would be able to salvage her career, in fact, which would be a shame, since she is a foulmouthed, talentless individual who, whilst not necessarily overtly or deliberately racist, should never be seen on telly again.

IMHO, of course.
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Jade will eventually do well out of this. :(

A brief fall from the publics eye a few repentant statements and some casually dropped stories about 'charity' work for with young underpriviledged Asian kids.. and eventually some shitty, desperate for ratings paper or channel will sign her up and use her notoriety for publicity.

And the off she'll go again to become 24th most important person in the world*

*whatever.
 
bellator said:
Just heard on the news that a major Sunday newspaper has signed Jade up for a 6 figure sum.
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She is going to be in the News of the World, but apparently they haven't paid for it.
 
lenny101 said:
She is going to be in the News of the World, but apparently they haven't paid for it.
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Curiously, a Daily Mail story claiming Jade was told what to say, and coached, by Endemol for her exit, has now (seemingly) been removed from the Mail's website.

Mail Report Link

Curious, but maybe it will reappear elsewhere on that site.
Mail is a rag, but is one of the few papers that retains an international news team.
 
Ranu said:
There is a fee but she's decided to donate it to charity. What a surprise - and so the whitewash begins.
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The whitewash in which the monstrous crimes of Jade Goody are swept under the carpet before the public gets to know about them? There are tribes deep in the mountains of Papua New Guinea who have never encountered modern technology or people from more than two valleys away who still know about Jade referring to Shilpa as ‘Shilpa Poppadum’.

Donating the fee seems like a generous enough gesture to me, especially since she’s likely to find the work drying up a little…
 
exosculate said:
Whats the betting, Jade will have a range of Poppadoms out on sale within the next 6 months?
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They’ll make them, but they’ll be outsold five to one by Shilpa’s range of chicken dishes – undercooked to perfection and prepared with the use of a single Oxo cube…
 
Random One said:
they don't have big brother but there is similar program called Big Boss which started about a month ago i think on the Indian channel Sony.
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I read the other day that ironically the Indian version has been complained about for being too boring.
 
exosculate said:
They didn't with BB1 when is started.
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Not true; they showed it live, just not 24/7. At peak viewing times it was shown live with no edits.

<~~Was a BB fan in those days. I even suggested one of their tasks - the internet wasn't quite so widepsread in those days and I suggested it on their website, and they used it with my exact wording.

I'd rather Jade Goody be used as a front for bullies who reform than as a front for the National Front, which might happen if she doesn't get attention from elsewhere. It's Danielle and Jo's careers that will be dead, because they're not worth the effort to exhonerate (or they might get taken up by racist organisations, unless they're very careful). If BB do a live eviction for either of them, those who wanted to bay for Jade's blood will bay for theirs instead, with extra intensity. Poor tools.

I don't buy the ideas that either Shilpa egged them on to be racist, or that C4 deliberately put Jade/etc and Shilpa in there together to create racial tension, because that would require an incredible degree of insight into their characters. Given how naievely vainglorious Shilpa's introductory video was, there is no way she is astute and cynical enough to have deliberately acted the victim with a view to exactly how the other contestants would respond.

Odds on that no winner will be announced, the show will be cancelled early, and the potential winner's prize will instead be given to charidee.

In Dalston market today I noticed a huge clamour around the Bollywood DVD stall, which usually does an OK trade but does not have four-deep queues (which is as much as you can fit in the alley), several of whom were asking for Shilpa Shetty films, including lots of white people. So her aim, of increasing her British profile, has worked, but it probably would have even without all this furore. Bollywood films have increased in popularity in recent years, but they needed a famous name to go with them.

Anyway. I'm reading all this with interest. Carry on as you were.
 
scifisam said:
Not true; they showed it live, just not 24/7. At peak viewing times it was shown live with no edits.
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Internet Stream

The action from within the house has been streamed live over the Internet for a one-off fee subscription that lasts until the end of a series. Subscribers to NTL Broadband Plus can watch the live stream free over the Internet.

E4

Since the second series Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house. An interactive service available to digital viewers allows 24/7 access to the stream

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Yes, E4 has carried live feed since then. Prior to that there was live feed at peak times on C4. There was no internet streaming at the time, but there was live TV screening at peak times.

'Since the second series Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house.' 'Also' = in addition to C4 showing live feed, at peak times.
 
exosculate said:
scifasm - are you a journalist?
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Nope. I was briefly (for the interests of disclosure). Nothing to do with that now, sadly. I'm a teacher! (There have been some interesting discussions about the show in school, btw). Edited to add - I do see why you asked that, but I'm 'reading with interest' because I'm nosey and because I stopped watching the show, so held back from commenting.

I do have a good friend who still works on BB, but I don't get any insider info from her, other than how much she hates the whole thing but it pays her mortgage. Following orders and all that!
 
scifisam said:
Yes, E4 has carried live feed since then. Prior to that there was live feed at peak times on C4. There was no internet streaming at the time, but there was live TV screening at peak times.

'Since the second series Channel 4's sister station E4 has also carried live pictures and audio from the Big Brother house.' 'Also' = in addition to C4 showing live feed, at peak times.
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I thought it meant - also - as in - in addition to the live internet feed.
 
scifisam said:
Nope. I was briefly (for the interests of disclosure). Nothing to do with that now, sadly. I'm a teacher! (There have been some interesting discussions about the show in school, btw).

I do have a good friend who still works on BB, but I don't get any insider info from her, other than how much she hates the whole thing but it pays her mortgage. Following orders and all that!
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Maybe she knows orang utan.
 
scifisam said:
I'd rather Jade Goody be used as a front for bullies who reform than as a front for the National Front, which might happen if she doesn't get attention from elsewhere.
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I don’t think that’s going to happen – the woman does just seem really stupid, instead of racist, and definitely not a fascist.

I think the only reason I’m sticking up for Jade a little here ‘coz it seems weird that she’s being single out as the face of racism in Britain today over the CBB stuff, while there’s been much less controversy over the lead dancer at the English National Ballet being a proud member of he BNP.
 
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