So it’s all over the news be it National or International, our Bollywood siren Ms. Shilpa Shetty has been subjected to immense agony, jealousy and above all racism by few of her Big Brother housemates.
Asian and British viewers have flooded Channel 4, which airs the show, and British media regulator Ofcom, with complaints. Till late on Tuesday, 4,500 complaints had been received. “We’ll look into each complaint,” said an Ofcom spokesperson. The watchdog has asked for unedited tapes of the show.
The villains of the reality show are to be the trio of three bitches – Non celebrity Big Brother winner Jade Goody, model Danielle Lloyd and singer-actress Jo O’Meara.
Many viewers think Shilpa is being targeted out of jealousy: she is being paid more – $680,000 (Rs 3.5 crore) as against the standard fee of $610,000 (Rs 3 crore) – than anyone else. She has also been more popular in the media than other participants, mostly B- and C-list celebs.
Here are some of the reasons behind viewer’s fury.
“Goody’s mother Jackiey (who has now been evicted) started calling Shilpa ‘Sipla’, then, sarcastically, ‘princess’ and finally, ‘the Indian’,” hotelier Girish Sanger told HT. “When Shilpa cooked chicken, Lloyd refused it, saying it was overcooked and that was why Indians were thin and sickly. She said, ‘How do Indians eat with their fingers? One doesn’t know where their fingers have been’,” Sanger said.
The Guardian quoted Lloyd as having said of Shilpa, “She is a dog,” and Goody as, “She makes me feel sick. She makes my skin crawl.” The daily said that on Monday’s show, “Shetty (had) ended up in tears”.
Some also accuse Jack Tweed (Jade’s boyfriend) of calling Shilpa a “Paki” during one of their fights and the trio also mocked her for bleaching her facial hair. In response, Channel 4 which airs the show has confirmed that Jack Tweed called fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty a “cunt”, not a “Paki” but assured viewers that no racial abuse would be tolerated and Big Brother would be monitoring each contestant and will take appropriate action against the guilty.
Now if you ask me, I sincerely think that the whole matter is being blown out of proportion here. What is been happening there can be described in simple terms like “Bitch fight” or “Cat fight”, depending on whatever breed one may fancy. Issues of Racism have been so much talked about that people today have become overly sensitive and therefore see irrelevant/minor incidents as major catastrophes.
Agreed they have made fun of her Indian accent and habits but haven’t we seen the same done by others on television before Big Brother. Shows like “Goodness Gracious Me”, “Kumars at No. 44″ found their success because of very same act. Or is there a rule that allows only Indians to make fun of other Indians?
There is no doubt that Shilpa is being bullied by those dumb fucks but for crying out loud she is 30+ practically double their age (mentally as well), she simply needs to stand up for herself rather than shedding tears or taking pep talk from the ex-Jackson 5 member – its really that simple.
Plus there have been instances where our dearest lady has herself given opportunities to those rats to chabber bullshit about her. I mean if you don’t like someone or you know the other person doesn’t like you, then why go and rub your face in theirs; just stay out of their business. If they don’t like her cooking then ask them to cook for themselves, no one has asked her to be extra nice. Inspite of her distance people still continue to bother her than she should fucking hell kick their lame butts – Screw the house rules, screw the viewers, screw the whole Sati Savatri crap, your self-respect needs to come up first.
But then again there could be a whole different dimension to Shilpa’s story. Maybe she is taking all this non-sense in order to gain sympathy votes from the remaining contestants and the viewers. After all they are in there only to win the final loot, aren’t they?
Anyways whatever maybe the reason, racism or not, girly fight or not – one thing is for sure that now our Shilpa is very much in the running for being the winner of Celebrity Big Brother. And if she does win, bloody hell she should be awarded with this year’s Film Fare award for Best Actress as well.
See this video and decide for yourself.
and girl bitchyness will never stop… somehow we are just born with it!! just got to wait to see who is the victim on the next big brother…..
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