Article in today's paper about the racial divide in the BB house:
Deprived of their booze - a constant source of worry - Saskia and Maxwell unleashed a torrent of abuse that skated close to outright racism and must have had Channel 4 management in a cold sweat. ... when he heard the new housemates' names (Eugene, Orlaith and Kinga) Maxwell worried that they "don't sound English. I wonder where they're from?". Crawley, Belfast and London, in fact. ...
Big Brother has always had ethnic-minority contestants, but the high proportion this year seems to have made racial divisions more pointed. In previous series black contestants have tended to lose out in voting against white rivals. This year, however, the public has chosen to evict white contestants, suggesting the audience is less concerned about race than a clique of the contestants.
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