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Big Brother’s standards

A truculent, argumentative blonde drama student called Emily has just been kicked off Big Brother for saying to the even more truculent and argumentative black WAG wannabe Charley – as they danced – “Are you pushing it out, you n***er?”

Emily protests that it was a joke, Charley – who has been known to use it of herself – was unoffended, and it wasn’t even broadcast, but – fearful of Ofcom and the cops – the big girls’ blouses of Channel 4 panicked and Emily was evicted.  There were, of course, no rebukes after seven young women tried to debag the solitary male contestant in an excess of what he labels ‘girlie-bollocks’.

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