Ms Shetty has been subjected to sustained racism. Contestants have said: “You need elocution lessons."In fact, it was Ms Shetty who said that to Jade Goody. Arguably she was right, and clearly Livingstone hasn't actually watched the programme he has condemned.
It should also be noted that Livingstone, had he genuinely been watching Big Brother, and genuinely was concerned about racism in all its forms, would be calling for Jermaine Jackson to be evicted after he said to Shetty earlier this week "these people are not like us.... they are not people of colour.. they are white trash".
I wonder if Livingstone wants a hand down of the bandwagon that he has so ably leaped upon?
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He may have been misinformed by this Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1992918,00.html
It says:
"At one point Goody, after a row with Shetty, had said: "You need elocution lessons. You need a day in the slums. Go to those people who look up to you and be real. You fucking fake." "
In any case, the word was 'etiquette', not 'elocution'. The Guardian was doubly wrong.
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