Turkey slapped! or how two housemates got ejected from the Big Brother Australia house after sexually harassing another

In a most surprising development, John and Ash were ejected from the Big Brother Australia house for sexually harassing Camilla on Saturday morning at 04:30AM. A controversy has erupted over this, questioning the purpose of the actual show.

In this post I cover Big Brother, sexual harassment, racism, some photos, Mr Angry’s angry blog and more!

Surprising and controversial developments in Big Brother Australia, that has the media, Endemol staff and the whole of Australia buzzing over the implications.

At approximately 4.30am Saturday morning Ashley and John jumped onto Camilla’s bed. John held down Camilla while Ashley knelt over her, apparently slapping her in the face with his penis. At one stage John was holding Camilla down by her head. The incident went to air over the internet streams and several users recorded screen captures which are now circulating the internet. At the time Camilla was quoted as saying “thats not cool”.

From the behindbigbrother website. From the incident rundown.

How messed up is this. And this followed the kissing/ not kissing task on Thursday, where Camilla was tasked to kiss everyone and Ash was tasked not to be kissed by anyone. There was a mock fight between Camilla and Ash, where she tried desperately to kiss him.

That being said, John and Ash behavior is unacceptable. The whole Big Brother Australia show is on the axe. Channel ten was already thinking about cancelling it for next season. Was this a case of hormones going overboard and cabin fever? Or just plain sexual harassment.

Camilla was a bit fragile over this week, having complained that she didn’t feel attractive and she had noticed that she had gained some weight. She told BB that she didn’t fit in any of her clothes that well anymore. What actually spurned this incident, what made John hold Camilla down whilst Ashley “turkey slapped” her with his wang?

BB had no choice but to remove these offending housemates. I would go further and Camilla should press charges agains Ash and John and sue Endemol along the way. Putting a group full of young singles confined in a house of 100 days is not the best way of going about things.

The feed was cut on Saturday and the threads in the official forums were deleted due to legal reasons said the BB website.

Mr Angry’s blog about general angriness, his post about stormfront, a white supremacist organization, have prompted interesting racist posts from some readers. He was prompted to launch a post ridiculing the aforementioned organization after he received racist spam on his blog. After writing a few articles on racism in Montreal, I followed this discussion. It sheds some light on some of the possible societal problems of Australia, showcased in part on Big Brother. Claire has said before that she didn’t like Asians. And have you noticed how all the contestants are Caucasians? Not to say that Canada or USA don’t have these problems, but for a country 15 hours ahead of Canada that I don’t know that well, it shows a different facet than the beautiful beaches, the deserts and the coasts. Also, I don’t generalize about a whole country or society after only a few comments that I’ve read or opinions shown on Australian TV. I have actually a lot of Australian readers and I like all of them.

A beautiful series of photos about a girl washing her knickers. Here is a link to the complete set.

Another interesting post on the behindbigbrother forums after an American user posted a comment, instead of just lurking like I do.

Aussies dislike Americans intensely. They don’t want to hear about the US; they don’t want to talk to anyone from the US, and they don’t like Americans (even though most of them have never met one), and they surely don’t want an American on ‘their’ forums. But don’t feel bad, Australians are the only people in the world who hate their forebears. They can’t stand a “Pom” (oh yes, name calling a la kindergarten is alive and well in Australia). Australians aren’t prejudiced – they hate everybody.

I think that these organizations do not have a place in our modern society, they just promote hatred. Didn’t Jesus Christ say, “Love yourselves like I have loved you?” [Ed Note, I’m paraphrasing from the French “Aimez-vous les uns les autres comme je vous ai aimés.”].

Aren’t those people Christians? Shouldn’t they be following the basic precept of their religion? But hate always finds a way. Like the suicide bomber finding Jihad a justification for his actions, Like the Israeli soldier firing artillery shells on Palestinian houses, hatred is almost viral in nature. It propagates from the hater to those around them. The more you are exposed to hatred, if you are vulnerable to those kinds of statements, the more you can be affected by them.

Some of the comments I read are disturbing to say the least. Ignorance isn’t bliss. The ignorant should realize that they are ignorant and try to remedy the situation. But as with Plato’s allegory of the cave, some people are glad to be ignorant and unaware and should stay that way.

This is the latest from behindbigbrother.

The decision was made at 9:30pm to bring down the official site forum to quell the speculation and discussions which were becoming legally sensitive.

The source says that Channel 10 management were close to finalising plans about half an hour ago. The decision was that series will be axed, with the remaining 8 housemates sharing the final $275 000.

Tomorrow’s eviction show has been cancelled, being replaced by The Simpsons and a special “Futurama” documentary about the recent resurrection of that series to return in 2008.

And the latest:

I can exclusively reveal that crisis talks have led to tonights eviction show being extended by 90 minutes. Following the first evictee, Gretel will continue to announce new evictees from the house at random, until the big brother house is empty. When all housemates are together on the eviction stage, Gretel will announce that the remaining prize money will be split between them.

The last two items are rumors posted by an undisclosed insider to the BBAU show.

Australian media links:

here, here, here, here and here.

 

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