Jade Goody evicted from Big Brother house
Sam Knight


Jade Goody, the former dental nurse, has been evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house tonight after being accused of racism. She will emerge to a deserted studio lot after Channel 4 banned the public from attending the show.

Normally contestants ejected from the house by a telephone vote walk out into a blaze of spotlights, camera flashes and the screams of a baying or rapturous crowd, but such are the "heightened feelings" surrounding Goody, the likely evictee, she will be alone.

"Due to the controversy and heightened feelings surrounding the evictees, there will be no crowd for tonight’s eviction," said spokesman for Applause Store, the company that sells tickets for the show.

After four days of defiance — which have seen nearly 40,000 people complain about the alleged bullying by Goody and two other contestants of Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood actress — Channel 4 appeared eager to dampen the controversy surroundings its prized reality television programme today.

"Over the past few days, Celebrity Big Brother has generated an intense and, at times, heated public debate which the evicted housemate will be unaware of," the broadcaster said in a statement. "As a result, Channel 4 and Endemol have taken the decision to conduct tonight’s eviction in front of a studio audience and without a crowd."

As well as removing the risk of nasty, televised scenes this evening, the broadcaster announced that all the profits from its telephone vote — a direct contest between Shetty and Goody, which the latter is expected to lose — would be donated to charities chosen by contestants at the end of the show.

Last night, a mood of reconciliation even permeated the programme, where the contestants have no idea about the arguments and international attention being paid to their actions. Shetty appeared to drop her earlier suggestion that she had been racially abused while Goody apologised and hugged the actress to make up.

"It’s not in me to be racial about somebody," she said. "If it offends any Indians out there I apologise."

Front-page headlines in Britain and India about the alleged bullying of Shetty by Goody and Danielle Lloyd, a former Miss Great Britain, and Jo O’Meara, who enjoyed brief success as a pop star, have made the show a subject of a police investigation, led to questions in the House of Commons and caused it to be an enormous commercial success.

More than 5.7 million people watched the programme last night even as Carphone Warehouse, the main sponsor of the show, ended its relationships with the programme and the Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, called it "disgusting".

The treatment of Shetty, a popular star in India, has even threatened to overshadow the visit of Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, to the country. Mr Brown hoped to use the trip to state his vision of international relations and raise his profile ahead of his expected accession as Prime Minister this summer but he has been dogged by repeated questions about the programme.

Today the Chancellor was given a red-carpet welcome to an Indian film studio in a northern suburb of Bombay, where he carefully expressed his backing for Shetty, saying: "There is a lot of support for Shilpa. It is pretty clear we are getting the message across. Britain is a nation of tolerance and fairness."

The Times of India, which described the show as "Big(ot) Brother" earlier this week, concluded today that there was no need for diplomatic action over the show, saying: "There is absolutely no reason for the Indian government to get involved or for the British government to be required to respond."

She was voted out by 84% votes.

According to Hindustan Times.. Media publicist Max Clifford said he had advised Goody not to go on the show.
"She has made terrible decision. It looks like she has ruined a very lucrative career"

Is it really that? Her career ruined or she got even more publicity hence benefit.. even if its negative publicity !!

SHAKEN Jade Goody broke down on live television yesterday and wept that she had ruined her children’s lives.

The race row star revealed plans to see a psychiatrist — and voiced fears that sons Bobby Jack, three, and Freddy, two would be “rejected”.

But, as sources revealed she was on the brink of suicide, she STILL maintained she was not a racist, adding: “In my biggest rage I’ve never come out with a racist comment.”

JADE is Suicidal? Give her a rope! Its only a con for sympathy, just confirms to me that she is rotten to the core

i am sure some of you would feel justice done if jade was to die,  hate to disapoint you, she has said she would never harm herself , because of her kids, just another bit of fiction from the press .

cant believe how gullible you all are, its no wonder she has been hung drawn and quatered, funny thing is, in this country people are innocent till proven guilty, since when did trial by media constitute guilt, if there was any racism, charges would be bought against the person,  havent heard any news yet about any charges being bought against anyone. seems to me like the law thinks there was no racism .

the punishment should fit the crime, also peoples treatment of jade has gone way beyond anything shilpa had to endur.

No ...!! its just a Puglic Relations STUNT. being a student of PR i know that this whole scene has been carefully planned in order to emotionalize the public and potrait the picture of heart broker, helpless and sorry Jade. This is a stunt to save her career and for Channel 4 and Big Brother to go in debts.

Ground to prove my assumptions correct ...

Firstly this isn't just my assumption ... in todays newspapers the very same things r said. that she will have a comeback with a bang ... if she followed the theory step by step.

She = Jade
Theory = PR text

and moreover the C4 (Channel 4) and BB(Big Brother) bosses have said:
The Sun can reveal bosses are now pinning their hopes on CBB being won by bullying victim Shilpa Shetty.

A board insider said of the Bollywood star: “If she describes her experience as positive then the row will be significantly defused as far as we’re concerned.”