Big Brother ... Racist?

I was hoping to avoid Big Brother ... but when it makes not only the front page of the Evening Standard, and many broadsheet Indian newspapers, and is discussed in Parliament and on the Radio 4 news (and click here for a BBC link), then I suppose it ought to be on this blog!

In case you've not been following the news, there have (to date) been almost 20,000 complaints made to Ofcom, the watchdog body that overseas the media. People have been complaining that some of the contestants (namely Jade, Jade's mother and boyfriend, Danielle and Jo) have been bullying, and making racist comments about, Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood star.

Gordon Brown is in India today, and he has been asked many questions about Big Brother by people who are extremely upset with the treatment seen of Shilpa. At the moment, Channel 4 are saying that there's not much they can do about it when Shilpa has not complained ... however, many of the comments have been made behind her back.

If you worked for Endemol, or Channel 4, what would you do? Would you want to stop showing the show, or pull out the main offenders to talk to them, or let things run and see how the main culprits respond when they are finally voted out? What would a Christian response be? How would you react if you were one of the celebrities in the house? Who do you respect most, out of the housemates?