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Originally posted by Rocky Rockstar:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
There was an advert on the TV saying 8 DAYS this morning – that can’t be the launch can it? It’s always been on a Friday.

I think there is something else on the friday night which might take all the ratings so Endemol / C4 have decided to start it on the weds / thurs instead. Cant remember what though so might be complete rubbish. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Friday is the England v Brazil match.

[retired_barbie34]

Seen that all the stuff C4 denied happened with Shetty now actually is true and they have had to release the unaired footage.

[retired_bec8643]

Wonder if police will charge them then for withholding evidence then.

[retired_barbie34]

"and they have had to release the unaired footage."

I meant release transcripts of the footage. Not sure if we will ever actually see it on TV or not.

[retired_derek]

aye.

Also, Davina also said on O'Grady's show that it wasn't racist AGAIN.

I really do hope they make her give one of the grovelling apologies on air at the start of the new show. Would be justice. She's just a bad as Jade in the way she excused it and has continued to do so.

[aeonteal]

Originally posted by Gregg Carter:
aye.

Also, Davina also said on O'Grady's show that it wasn't racist AGAIN.

I really do hope they make her give one of the grovelling apologies on air at the start of the new show. Would be justice. She's just a bad as Jade in the way she excused it and has continued to do so.

Tbf, C4 probably instructed her to do that.

[retired_derek]

More like her agent tbh.

[retired_katie14]

Australian Big Brother under fire

The Australian version of the TV programme Big Brother has come under criticism for deciding not to tell a contestant that her father had died.

Emma Cornell has been cut off from the outside world since entering the reality TV show's house a month ago.

She still does not know that her father Raymond died of cancer last week.

But a spokesman for Channel Ten, which broadcasts the programme, has defended its decision, said it was acting according to her family's wishes.

"Her dad didn't want her to be upset or to feel like she had to leave the house to come to his funeral," Ms Cornell's boyfriend, Tim Stanton, told local media.

"She might be upset when she comes out and finds out what has happened, but I think she'll understand," he said.

But Chris Hall, a spokesman for the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, said he did not think that this was in Ms Cornell's best interests.

"I still think that one needs to weigh up the risks in terms of following a course of action that may be well-intentioned but may ultimately not serve the bereaved person well," he said.

This is not the first time that Australian Big Brother has attracted criticism.

Last year two male participants were withdrawn from the house after appearing to sexually molest a female contestant, and the late night edition aimed at adults has attracted complaints of being too sexually explicit.

In a separate development, a UK version of the programme involving celebrities was severely reprimanded on Thursday for its handling of a racist row involving an Indian contestant in the series broadcast in January this year.

The broadcaster, Channel 4, is being forced to make three on-air apologies.

That’s going to be some great coming out interview.

How’s my dad doing?

Err……

[retired_gilgamesh36]

You know if it was over here then The Sun would fly a plane across the house with a massive banner saying "Emma, your dad has died.....The Sun".

[retired_barbie34]

tbf Before she went in the house she said she didn't want to know didn't she?