Big Brother will have to air apology before opening night show
Posted by Boyd on Thursday 24 May 2007
Filed under: Big Brother
Looks like next week's live Big Brother launch show will be quite unlike anything we've seen before. Channel 4 is being forced by industry regulator Ofcom to air the first of three apologies about this year's Celeb BB just before the start of Wednesday's BB8.
Ofcom has announced that Channel 4 breached its broadcasting code for making "serious editorial misjudgements" and, to paraphrase a lengthy jargon-filled ruling, failing to intervene early enough to stop the housemates behaving in an offensive manner to Shilpa Shetty.
So as part of Channel 4's punishment (they haven't been fined), they'll have to tell viewers on air about Ofcom's findings on three occasions: at the start of BB8, before the following morning's repeat and finally before the first eviction show – whenever that will be! You can download the full Ofcom report below.
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georgiesaysrelax
see I don't personally think Jade's comments were made up of everything except for ignorance, but this apology wasn't Jade's punishment. Endemol edited the footage cleverly, to get more ratings but th
GeorgiaStorm
I don't understand why everyones so uptight about this incident, STILL. It was like months ago, why bother going on about it? Jade has said sorry, theres not much more she can say.
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