New Delhi: Just as the big row over racist remarks on the UK reality show Big Brother seemed to be fading, another reality show on the British Broadcast Network Channel 4 has come under the scanner.
Shipwrecked, a show that makes castaways of two groups of young people on islands in the South Pacific, has been widely criticized by viewers for allowing comments on slavery to be aired.
An 18-year-old contestant on the show, Lucy Buchanan, has been accused of supporting slavery, being racist and mocking homosexuals and Blacks.
Claiming that the shows containing offensive comments were part of very early footage of Shipwrecked, Channel 4 said that Lucy was pulled up by other contestants on the show and she subsequently stopped making offensive comments.
Viewers took offence to some of the comments Lucy said about Blacks, the British empire and fat people. "I don't like fat people, I don't really like really ugly people, I don't like it when foreigners come into this country and they don't take on British culture and British values. I'm for the British Empire and things. I'm for slavery, but that's never going to come back," she said on the show.
Channel 4’s other show Big Brother that caused the big racism controversy is being reviewed by a panel that will put the editorial practices followed in the making of the reality show under the scanner.
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