Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty

Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty

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A photo posted by Shilpa Shetty Kundra (@officialshilpashetty) on Dec 13, 2015 at 4:27am PST

Reality TV creates a very surreal diplomatic crisis

Anthony Browne in Bangalore, Ashling O'Connor in Bombay, Philip Webster and Adam Sherwin

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2553080,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain

Update: Dec. 14, 2015 – the link no longer seems to work. It just takes you to “The Times” website…

India lodges Big Brother protest

Blair and Brown drawn into row

Times exclusive: interview with Shilpa Shetty's mother

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown mounted a diplomatic offensive to protect Britain’s reputation in India and the sub-continent yesterday as a television racism row grew into an international crisis.

India threatened to make a formal protest about the racist bullying of the Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on the reality show Celebrity Big Brother.

Effigies of the show’s organisers were burnt and in Britain there were 22,000 complaints to Ofcom. The Channel 4 programme had become the most complained about in the broadcasting watchdog’s history.

Mr Brown, who is on his first visit to India, described the comments on the show as offensive and condemned anything that harmed Britain’s reputation as a tolerant country.

Mr Blair said little initially. Questioned in the Commons, he said that MPs should oppose racism in all its forms. But after protests poured in he authorised a No 10 statement saying that Britain would not tolerate racism in any way. His spokesman said: “What clearly is to be regretted and countered is if there is any perception abroad that in any way we tolerate racism in this country.

“What the response to the programme has shown is precisely the opposite — that there is no level of toleration in this country for anything which, rightly or wrongly, is perceived to be racist. The message should go out loud and clear that we are a tolerant country and we will not tolerate racism in any way.”

The spokesman emphasised that Mr Blair had not seen the programmes.

Read much more here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2553080,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain

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