Shilpa's 'Big Brother' win manipulated.. Really
Cancer-stricken British reality TV star Jade Goody has penned her doubts about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's 2007 win in " Celebrity Big Brother" show in her autobiography "Jade: Catch A Falling Star". She says the win was orchestrated.
Infamous for her racist spat with Shilpa on
the show, Goody has written that once she was inside the house, she began to
have suspicions that Shilpa was getting special treatment from the producers,
reports thesun.co.uk.
"I got the impression that the
producers jumped through hoops for Shilpa Shetty. This was magnified in my mind
because in the house she informed us of certain things (obviously none of this
was screened, though)."
"Shilpa specifically told us all she
had insisted on certain clauses in her contract. One was that if she went into
the diary room and asked for something (within reason) she would get it,'"
the autobiography further read.
Tension however built in the show when
Goody spat out the phrase "Shilpa poppadom" for the Indian actress
that resulted in the infamous "racist" controversy."Yes, I said
those things and they are nasty, but I am not a racist... I shouldn't have done
that," she apologised.
After exiting "Big Brother",
Goody was diagnosed with depression within a month and was admitted to
rehabilitation centre The Priory, where she woke to a text that made her once
again question the motives of the producers of the show and their apparent bias
towards Shilpa.
"You okay, Jade? Standing here at the
final. Shilpa's won. The crowd is booing. But on TV everyone can only hear
cheers," Goody's bodyguard had texted her after the finale results were
announced.
The furore surrounding the spat however
subsided and both actresses made peace. The mother-of-two even participated in
"Bigg Boss", the Indian version of "Big Brother", which was
hosted by Shilpa.
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