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January 18, 2007
CBB
Much has been said and written about Shilpa Shetty appearing in the Celebrity Big Brother show on Channel 4 in UK. I was watching the show till last week and stopped watching it after unsavoury happenings inside the big brother house.
I thought including a South Asian who hasn’t lived in UK in the show was a recipe for disaster as it would be difficult for Shilpa to adjust to the British culture from the word go. . Most of the other participants were British and also most of them were Z list celebrities.
The show kicked off well but it all started when the team was spilt into 2 and the introduction of Goody clan into the house. 3 voluntary walk offs as they couldn’t stand the clan and I think Shilpa should have done the same thing at that time. The show was already losing viewer ship and it would have been a death knell for the show as there weren’t any characters left in the house, but she continued despite crying most of the time inside the house.
British TV is entirely different from India TVs, here most of the programmes, even if it is in the prime time, were sexed up for attracting more viewer ship which is fine for British culture. However, anyone from South Asia who just moved to UK would find it difficult to watch some of the programmes with family. I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong about it, but we weren’t used to such programmes, so find it hard to believe.
Back to Shilpa, I think there was an undercurrent within the South Asian community that there are racially abused in this country in some ways and could relate this episode to their own life. Otherwise, I wouldn’t think there would have been such a response, because, after all Shilpa is said to be paid £300,000 for appearing on the show and could earn £1 Million if she wins it.
Posted by Vasanth at January 18, 2007 04:43 PM