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Big Brother (UK)



Main article: Big Brother Panto (UK)

E4 and T4 broadcast the special Big Brother Panto' series, bringing together ten members of the various Big Brother series to perform a pantomime of Cinderella. It was aired from 20 December 2004 to 5 January 2005.

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Criticisms and controversy

During Big Brother 4 there was a bomb scare. At 7:58 on Day 43, Big Brother asked all housemates to go to the boys bedroom until further notice because of a security alert inside the studios. The staff had left 20 minutes earlier, except for senior members of the production team who watched the housemates from behind the mirrors. The Big Brother gallery was unmanned after police advised staff to leave the house. At 8:43, Police advised that the house be evacuated. But since the gallery was unmanned, Big Brother had no method of communicating with the house, so staff had to enter. Senior members of the production team lead the housemates out via the camera runs, and they were taken to a secure area on the perimeter of the studio complex with 2 chaperones and 4 security guards. At 12:49am, the housemates were allowed to return after police gave the all clear. The eviction took place the following day.

In Big Brother 5, on what is commonly referred to as 'Fight Night', volatile ex-housemates Emma Greenwood and Michelle Bass returned to the Big Brother house after a fake eviction. Some of the housemates were extremely displeased, and after a series of arguments, Greenwood and Bass along with Jason Cowan, Marco Sabba, eventual winner Nadia Almada, Vanessa Nimmo and Victor Ebuwa became involved in an aggressive brawl. Viewers of live streaming called the police to inform them of the violent activity and, for the first time in the show's history, on-set security guards were called into the house to break up the arguments.

Big Brother 6, was heavily criticised for the amount of nudity shown on the show; after a midnight "romp" in the pool housemate Makosi Musambasi claimed to have conceived Anthony Hutton's child and asked for a pregnancy test. In addition, housemate Kinga Karolczak masturbated with a wine bottle in the garden.

In Celebrity Big Brother 4, housemate Pete Burns claimed that his coat was made from gorilla skin; after viewers called in to Ofcom, police removed the coat for testing. Ownership of products made from gorilla is illegal in the UK without a licence. Tests found the coat was in fact made of Colobus monkeys, another endangered species. As a result the case was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service who determined that the pelts used to make the coat were imported before 1975 (the year it became illegal to import Colobus fur) and as such did not press charges. This greatly upset animal rights campaigners.

Big Brother 7 came under criticism when critics claimed that Big Brother had deliberately put unstable people into the house. Housemate Shahbaz Chauhdry referred to himself as a "Paki poof" in his audition video, upsetting the British Asian community. He also threatened to commit suicide as well as stealing all the food out of the kitchen. He decided to walk on day 4 and admitted that he was mentally unstable. 7 days into the show, housemate Dawn Blake received a message in the house from her family, via Big Brother, saying "your sister is ill". This turned out to be a code message that Dawn had organised with her family before entering the Big Brother House, that the family promised they would send to her in the house if any newspapers, magazines or other media had made disparaging comments or judgements about Dawn in the outside world, so that Dawn could then leave. Dawn let her housemates know about this to some extent when she was heard whispering to them "I have a code". The producers of the show eventually caught on and although Dawn said she was leaving anyway, when she was called to the Diary Room the following day Big Brother told her that she had broken a major rule by being in contact with the outside world, and that she was being ejected from the house. When the housemates were made aware of Dawn's rule-breaking and ejection from the house, they surmised that any person who goes into the Big Brother house is going to have both good and bad comments made about them by the media and public, and that Dawn was naïve to enter the house in the first place if this was not her expectation. The public were given the opportunity to vote a previously evicted member back into the house. Thousands of complaints were made following Nikki's return to the house claiming that Channel 4 had misled the public when she had been voted out of the house originally. ICSTIS ruled Channel 4 had breached its code and imposed £50,000 'administrative charges'.

In Celebrity Big Brother 5, a worldwide debate was created by housemates Jade Goody (who had appeared on the non-celebrity version of the show four years previously), singer Jo O'Meara and model Danielle Lloyd. The row was sparked when alleged racist comments were made about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who was also a housemate in the show. A record number of 45,000 complaints were recorded for the unfair behaviour, bullying and racism in the UK Big Brother House, with protests across India. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer (Now Prime Minister) Gordon Brown, visiting India at the time, found himself answering questions on Big Brother throughout his trip, and a wider debate on racism in the UK was raised by the media. The 3 housmates involved were not removed from the house, and faced eviction in the normal way, although during Jade's eviction, no crowd was present. For all 3, the normally lighthearted eviction interview was serious in tone, and began by showing clips of international news bulletins and newspaper front pages. Shilpa emerged as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2007. Following the incident, Channel 4 was heavily criticized by Ofcom for not acting quickly enough, and was forced to apologize on air three times. See also Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy.

In Big Brother 8, the next regular series after the race row back in January, housemate Emily Parr was removed from the house hours after using the word "nigger" towards housemate Charley Uchea. This swift action was seen as a sign from the producers that they have learned from the criticism following the Shilpa Shetty incident. During the series, the fire alarm sounded resulting in the housemates having to evacuate the building via the fire exit in the bedroom. After waiting at the security gate, they were told that everywhere had been checked and that it was safe to re-enter the house.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Anger over Big Brother 'racism'. BBC News
  2. ^ C4 holds the fort Digital Spy Published on December 1, 2006, URL last accessed on December.
  3. ^ Channel Four Axes Celebrity Big Brother |Sky News|Home
  4. ^ ITV planning move for Big Brother MediaGuardian.co.uk Retrieved 2007-08-30
  5. ^ ITV "in talks" to poach Big Brother Digital Spy Retrieved 2007-08-30
  6. ^ Turner, Kevin. (June 3, 2006) Daily Record Sleazy big bro boys as top buddies again; Eviction vote in the house as nominee face chop - House survivor Richard will 'look after' Imogen. Section: News; Page 4.
  7. ^ Sunday Mirror (May 21, 2006) Odds to win. Section: Features; Page 4.
  8. ^ a b Methven, Nicola. (June 3, 2006) The Daily Mirror Fail, Sezer. The long hot summer of bruv; Sleazer out ...with 91% of vote. Section: Features; Page 10.
  9. ^ BBC News (June 8, 2002) and radio/2031908.stm
  10. ^ CBBC News (November 30, 2002)film/newsid 2530000/2530233.stm
  11. ^ http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?article=40911&area=1
  12. ^ Jade: I'm so f***ing scared. Daily Star (20 January 2007). Retrieved on 2007-01-20.
  13. ^ Brook, Stephen (17 January 2007). Big Brother complaints explode. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
  14. ^ Sponsor evicts C4's Big Brother. BBC News (8 March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-08.
  15. ^ Blair and India step into CBB row. Mirror (17 January 2007). Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
  16. ^ Channel 4 denies Brother 'racism'. BBC News (17 January 2007). Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
  17. ^ Paris Hilton considering Celebrity Big Brother? » Fametastic
  18. ^ Celebrity Big Brother axed (TeleText)
  19. ^ "Very exciting Big Brother news", Heatworld.com, 2007-10-22. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. 
  20. ^ News Flash: Dermot's quitting Big Brother's Little Brother!
  21. ^ a b "BB Celebrity Hijack", Channel 4, 2007-10-08. Retrieved on 2007-10-08. 

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