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Nice thread about it on digitalspy:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...hp?t=128288&s=

Someone on there called 'Inspiration' goes way too far to try and defend her imo! :)

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Didn't say on there about getting expelled though. I'm sure she said it and 6 times too.

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this is all very sad, i cant believe people are interested in this........

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ya leave emma alone ! she has alot to offer the house :angel:

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Anyone else see Shell's bum tonight? :eek:

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yes i did !!!! the bums going to give be nightmares tonight :(

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Why would a gorgeous woman's bum give you nightmares?

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shush - watch & learn, lurk & become wise, look not at the tv, but at the people looking at the tv. The 'contestants' are a minor feature, what is huge is the interactive technology & the income from phone voting, etc :)

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Taken from today's Daily Mirror...

Does that make her homophobic too, and just as bad as him?

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If the very fact that someone is heterosexual causes her to treat them differently then yes, although the word would be 'heretophobic'.

Having said that, I intensely dislike the way the homosexual lobby has managed to define the word 'homophobia' to mean 'hatred of' or 'discrimination against'. The correct use of the suffix '-phobia' is 'fear of', which is something quite different.

So for complete accuracy, I guess it would have to be something like 'heterosexualist', which is a bit of a mouthful ... any other suggestions?

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I am so glad that I read a "proper" newspaper,:p

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well here's some more fuel for the fire.... BB have umpteen gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender changed people in the house for entertainment purposes - by choicing these people isnt this exploitation of their sexuality by the selection panel?

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I absolutely agree with you. Channel Four has put together a freak show, in the truest Victorian tradition.

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I dont consider these people as freaks but the idea of getting as many sexually 'different' people.... is the aim to create a circus freak show?

if they had a dwarf in the house it would be acceptable but if they filled half the house with dwarfs - what would they be aiming to achieve?

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'Freak' in the Victorian sense is probably best translated today as 'different'. I'm not sure how far, even back in the 19th century, the freak show was intended to make value judgements on its 'exhibits'. I'm certain that C4 isn't saying these people are in any way worthless (I'm not saying that either).

But there is no doubt in my mind that C4 expects, at least in part, that entertainment value of these particular 12 people being in the house is that they are sufficiently different from the majority of everyday British people that people will want to pay a ha'penny to come and stare at them.

I don't think we have a houseful of 'dwarfs' either. 'Gay' certainly isn't adequate as a single categorisation in this case. They have all got their own particular 'flavour' of sexuality, from the transsexual to the militant lesbian, to two women who aren't avowedly bisexual but have enjoyed liaisons with other women, to the outrageous mincer (who strangely calmed down a lot within about 12 hours of being inside) to the homosexual male who uses the word 'gay' to refer to outrageous mincers who give all homosexuals 'a bad name'.