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Producers of Australia’s ‘Big Brother’ Refuse to Tell Contestant Her Father Is Dead

Jun 1, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: big brother, celebrity, emma cornell

The furor surrounding Australia’s version of “Big Brother” — where producers are refusing to tell a contestant her father is dead — is growing.

Hot houseguest Emma Cornell, a model from Adelaide, is unaware that her dad, Raymond Cornell, died earlier this month after battling cancer. Father and daughter were estranged until recently.

News that Emma was being kept in the dark surfaced last week but the pressure on producers to do something about it is mounting — not least because they worry that word will get to her by some other means.

The show’s producers have so far refused to break the traditional “BB” ban on letting contestants hear any news from the outside world — including the death of a family member.

Two studio-audience members this week held up a sign reading, “Emma, Your Dad is Dead,” before being hustled out and barred for good.

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When Jade Goody’s sari dreams came crashing down

Mar 15, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: asiana, big brother, celebrities, jade goody, racist, shilpa shetty

Shilpa Shetty’s tormentor on the British reality TV show ‘Big Brother’ Jade Goody wanted to pacify the anger of the Indian people by posing in a sari for an interview to a leading British-Asian magazine.

Goody, who was booted off the show following racist remarks in which she called the Indian actress “Shilpa Poppadom”, was in India at the beginning of this month as part of her PR campaign to smooth ruffled feathers. Goody, who was interviewed by Asiana, Britain’s biggest-selling Asian women’s magazine, also wanted to pose in a sari.

However, the move was vetoed by the magazine, who felt that the stunt was not suitable, revealed Shihab Salim, editor-in-chief of Asiana. “The option of doing a photoshoot with her in a sari was flatly rejected!” the Daily Mail quoted Salim, as saying.

And, if the editors were a little bit unsure as to whether or not they should run the story of Goody’s trip to India, Salim revealed that it was really Goody’s ignorance about the country that decided to make them go ahead, especially since a lot of other people have the same notions as her.

“But our decision to run the story was sealed when she came back with priceless quotes such as ‘I now know to tell my kids Pakistani people are not from India,’” she said. As for why she went to India, well Goody told the mag that she did so because she wanted to “give something back”.

“I offended a lot of people in India. I wanted to give something back. I didn’t just want to send a cheque, I wanted to find out about the work the charities do for myself,” she said.

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