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New Race Row For C4
Updated: 16:29, Monday January 22, 2007
Channel 4 has become embroiled in a new race row after complaints about racist comments on reality show Shipwrecked.
A contestant made offensive remarks about black people, as well as gay and fat people.
Media regulator Ofcom said it received 46 complaints about the programme, in which young people compete on two desert islands in the South Pacific.
Public schoolgirl Lucy Buchanan, 18, from York, praised slavery on Shipwrecked and said she would get a black person to do her "slave work".
It follows thousands of complaints over alleged racist bullying on C4's other reality show Celebrity Big Brother.
More to follow...
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New Race Row For C4
Updated: 16:29, Monday January 22, 2007
Channel 4 has become embroiled in a new race row after complaints about racist comments on reality show Shipwrecked.
A contestant made offensive remarks about black people, as well as gay and fat people.
Media regulator Ofcom said it received 46 complaints about the programme, in which young people compete on two desert islands in the South Pacific.
Public schoolgirl Lucy Buchanan, 18, from York, praised slavery on Shipwrecked and said she would get a black person to do her "slave work".
It follows thousands of complaints over alleged racist bullying on C4's other reality show Celebrity Big Brother.
More to follow...
Sky News: UK News, World News and Business News. The First for breaking global News!
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