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Posted on: 17-01-07 10:28:14
Hi,
I don't know if anyone knows or not (or is even interested) but Shilpa Shetty has taken part in the most recent UK version of Big Brother. It's a celebrity one in which she and other British celebs live in the house together. Anyway...to cut a long story short, Shilpa has been on the receiving end of racial abuse and there's been a huge uproar in England from the desi community and even India.
Check out the links below to read more.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/home
http://www.thesun.co.uk" rel="nofollow">LINK
Did Big Brother ever come on here in Canada? I guess people don't care for it much here or I'm sure it would come on.
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Did Big Brother ever come on here in Canada? I guess people don't care for it much here or I'm sure it would come on.
I think it did.. i dont think it was too popular.. but if I remember correctly it was on Channel 11 "CH"
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And too much is going around these couple days over some Racial Comments on Shilpa (allegedly was taunted about her skin colour, accent and cooking.)
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And too much is going around these couple days over some Racial Comments on Shilpa (allegedly was taunted about her skin colour, accent and cooking.)
Judging by the publicity the whole affair is getting in all the media outlets including Cnn,fox, etc., Shilpa Shetty's career may really take off even in the west. Even Stallone who is visiting UK seems to have made a reference to Shetty calling her 'beautiful'.
I guess there really is nothing like bad publicity.
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Posted on: 18-01-07 12:17:24
The Toronto Star's version
Taunts aimed at film star on reality show prompt India to file complaint with U.K.
January 18, 2007
Sandro Contenta
EUROPEAN BUREAU
LONDON–Life has been known to imitate art, but rarely does it follow the script of a TV reality show.
Britain and India have been doing just that these days, and the result is a full-fledged diplomatic incident.
India has officially complained to Britain about alleged racist bullying against Bollywood film star Shilpa Shetty, one of several participants in Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother.
The A-list Indian actor, one of 11 people locked up in a house and watched round the clock by TV cameras, has been reduced to tears by other contestants making fun of her accent and at times calling her a "dog" or "the Indian."
"Why do they hate me? Why am I detested?" cried Shetty, 31, the star of dozens of Bollywood films.
The British TV show isn't seen in India, but Shetty's treatment was front-page news yesterday and sparked angry street protests in the eastern Indian city of Patna, where dozens of the film star's admirers burned her housemates in effigy.
Britain's TV watchdog agency, Ofcom, has received a record 19,300 complaints about Shetty's treatment since the reality show began Jan. 3.
Celebrity Big Brother has been the stuff of tabloid newspaper coverage since Channel 4 began the annual "social experiment" five years ago of locking up minor or washed-up celebrities in a house for 25 days without contact from the outside world.
Insomniacs have been treated to hours of boredom, spiced by the occasional hint of sex and the odd memorable moment, such as last year's image of George Galloway, the vociferous anti-Iraq war politician, doing his imitation of a cat slurping milk.
What makes this series different is that it has managed to drag top politicians in Britain and India into its version of reality.
In doing so, it became the top news item on BBC TV's evening newscast, Britain's staid network of record.
India's minister for external affairs, Anand Sharma, yesterday raised the issue with Britain's finance minister and prime minister-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, who happened to be on a trade mission to the country.
"What has happened is most unfortunate. Racism has to be condemned in the strongest terms," Sharma told the BBC after his meeting with Brown. "It's not a joke when you target an entire nation of one billion-plus people."
Brown told reporters: "The Indians want to be reassured that we are a nation of fairness and we are a nation of tolerance."
Asked in the House of Commons to condemn the "xenophobia" expressed on the reality show, Prime Minister Tony Blair said he hadn't seen the program but opposed "racism in all its forms."
Channel 4 issued a statement last night insisting that, "To date, there has been no overt racial abuse or racist behaviour directed against Shilpa Shetty within the Big Brother house.
"However, there has undoubtedly been a cultural and class clash between her and three of the British females in the house."
One of the women is model Danielle Lloyd, who posed topless for Playboy last year and was stripped of her Miss Great Britain crown.
She called Shetty "a dog," asked her if she "gets stubble" and told another participant that Shetty "wants to be white."
Observers have noted that some of the trouble stems from Shetty, a major star with a major ego, being locked in a house with "slum dwellers" – as film director and participant Ken Russell called them – who haven't a clue who she is.
But novelist Hari Kunzru argues the show reveals how banal xenophobia has become.
Kunzru described one participant repeatedly refusing to correctly pronounce Shetty's first name as "straightforwardly racist – every British Asian will have had that conversation at least once, complete with self-righteous complaints about the `difficulty' of the task."
"This is what Big Brother is for. It holds a mirror up to national attitudes. If we don't like what we see, we ought to change," he wrote in The Guardian newspaper.
The controversy has done wonders for the show's sagging ratings.
Since it erupted Monday, an average of 4.5 million viewers have tuned in to watch the nightly highlights – a nightly increase of 1 million.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/172359
To build upon Jake's comment on publicity,there is also the notion that this was deliberately done to boost ratings of the show and make it go worldwide.
Has anybody been following The Toronto Sun's daily articles on racism that have been running for a week now? Looks like the Jews and Afros are the most targeted acc to them
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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership
Indians all over the world raise voice againt racial comments on Shilpa..But Shilpa says she did not find anything wrong. She did not see any any racial slurs against her. Are NRIs and NRI newspapers all fooled by Shilpa?
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1904039,0011.htm>
