Big Brother evicts racist for insulting Shilpa Shetty

Britons over the last week have filed 38,000 complaints with Britain's television regulator alleging that Indian actress had been subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants Jade Goody and Danielle Lloyd, both minor British celebrities.
The show held its scheduled public vote Friday, with both Shetty and Goody nominated for eviction from the house, where contestants live together, cut off from access to the outside.
Neither Shetty nor Goody were fully aware of the furor the show had caused.

After annoucing Goody's eviction live on Channel 4, show host Davina McCall said: Jade obviously has no idea that for the last week she has been at the center of an international crisis.
The alleged racist incidents sparked an outcry in both and , where protesters earlier this week burned an effigy said to depict the show's producers. Newspapers have played the debate on front pages, politicians have expressed concern about the alleged racism.

Under public pressure to deal with the issue, Channel 4 said producers had spoken to Goody and Lloyd. Goody, apparently after hearing that some viewers were offended by her remarks to Shetty, broke into tears and said she was petrified by the idea of facing the public because people think I'm a racist.
I've never been more scared in my life, Goody said on the show before eviction.

On Friday night, producers banned the public from outside the Big Brother house, where previously fans have greeted whomever is forced to leave the show.
Goody, who became a celebrity after enduring much abuse herself in an earlier edition of Big Brother, approached Shetty on Thursday night and apologized, but said she was no racist.
Following her eviction, Goody appeared to be stunned when McCall showed her edited footage of the show and the international reaction it had received.

Oh my God, Goody said. That's pretty intense. That explains a lot of things.

.. it's nasty.

She reiterated, however, that she was no racist. I'm not a racist person, but looking at that film I can see why it's had the impact it has had.