Celebrity Big Brother: is it really racist or 'just' bullying and bitchiness?

[LucyJones]

I'm really not sure where I stand. A lot of it just sems like school girl horridness

Resist the temptation to vote (or watch) for that matter - C4/Endemol will never agree with giving proceeds to charity and you're just playing into their evil hands by trying to evict Jade. If she stays in, they should ask her to leave - don't get sucked in people.

I tell you what - it's the bizarrest thing watching this people in the house asbolutely CLUELESS about the furore just outside the door - they are going to be well and truly gobsmacked.

right on, Sister Smileyspeople! so true.

i'm missing bakedbeans, by the way. where is she today?

It's not so windy under the bridge, Aitch.

That's prolly where she's away to.

That sounds a good plan Crumbs.
Not that I ever have bought a mag with jade on the front......but I will throw her perfume out now!!!(please be aware I AM joking)

on the toilet?

Me neither (bought mag) but have been known to borrow one at the gym to try to keep myself going on the bike. Never again.

Oh yes, obviously I READ them in the supermarket, but I'd NEVER buy it!!

C4 are splitting hairs, semantically, because they are over a barrell

if they say it is racist..this furore will go through the roof and pressure is on to ditch the show and disassociate from the protagonists......

so suits them to dress it up differently......grrr

and the statement from Danielle;s family...at least they admit she was not being polite.....but f*ck off home used jovially b/w young people??? grasping at straws methinks...

and naive...nope.....malicious and stupid IMHO....no-one seeks that sort of lifestyle if they are naive..i would go so far as to suggest she is as hard bitten as they come

if people had neither seen nor heard anything about CBB they would gather everything they need to know from the statement given by Danielle's family.

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Me and DH watched big brother last night with our chins firmly on the floor and then decided if you give people enough rope they will hang themselves (i think that is the phrase.

The statement from Danielle's family is so apologist - it is like people saying "I can't be racist because some of my best friends are jewish/asian etc". The three of them are a disgrace - Jade is so aggressive and her pathetic boyfriend doesn't even have the bottle to stand up to her ...

{TM..MSN on please!}

i agree with LM - Danielle is far from naive - she has the perfect career plan (!)
Have boob job, date footballer, pose for playboy, win Miss UK and then get stripped of the title - hard nosed and somebody who knows EXACTLY what she is doing

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Should I start a 'vote for Shilpa, don't let the lowlife show us up thread...'or has it already been done?

Aitch/LittleSarah - I agree with Hatwoman's definition (several hundred messages ago!) I still also think misunderstandings arose due to a culture clash (nothing to do with race ?just Jade?s inability to relate to anyone who is not from exactly the same background as her = ignorance and narrow-mindedness).
Jade became famous in some ways because she was (indirectly) bullied in BB. The others in her series let her come across as ridiculous, they didn't try to stop her getting so drunk, taking her clothes off and being pathetic ('I'm not a minger'). They didn't protect her from making a fool of herself on national tv (just quietly sniggered). The more sophisticated housemates on that series are long since forgotten but some of us found Jade's child-like innocence and vulnerability endearing (because she was just herself, not calculating). We felt protective towards her and she's since made a career from it. It turns out that Jade has a business brain and has made lots of money. We like her when she is being bubbly and smiley and daft but the flip-side of her child-like personality seems to be her irrationality, volatility, ignorance and aggression - we don't like that. It's hard to believe she's really like that - a nasty side we didn't see before. It's almost as if she was paid to go in there and be offensive to make 'interesting' tv. Oh well, I suppose it will all blow over and be resolved. Shilpa seems very rational, I was impressed with her last statement in the diary room. She is above the pettiness, she is not argumentative. She and Jade are chalk and cheese, personality-wise, no wonder they don?t get on. I don?t like Danielle and Jo seems to be just siding with the majority ? weak-minded.

Why are you so interested in my whereabouts? Or whether I live under a bridge? Is it because the goings on in my house are more interesting than those in the CBB house?

According to the news, Hertfordshire Police have now launched an investigation into the alledged racism and Carphone Warehouse have withdrawn their sponsorship of the show.

Apparently in the Diary Room, Shilpa told BB that she didn't think she was being racially abused, but then she hasn't heard half the comments as a lot of them were said behind her back.

The Sun

"Late today Danielle Lloyd was dumped from a lucrative modelling contract as a result of the escalating race row.

In what The Sun believes was a six-figure-deal the former Miss England was the the face of motorcycle insurance firm Bennetts.

A Bennetts spokesman said: "Bennetts is strongly opposed to any form of racism and bullying and, in the light of the accusations which have been made against Miss Lloyd, has taken the decision to terminate its arrangements with her with immediate effect.

"Bennetts will no longer use Miss Lloyd for any promotional activities and will remove all promotional pictures and press materials featuring her from its website."