This woman is richer than you:

Makes you sick doesn't it?







The non-entity Big Brother racism row has dominated much of the news in the last two days, with over 30,000 complaints being made to the media regulator Ofcom - the previous record for complaints was a mere 19,000 for "Jerry Springer: The Opera".

The issue revolves around Jade Goody (above) and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and the growing friction between the pair.

The main argument erupted on Wednesday night, with Jade launching an expletive ridden tyraid at Shilpa over the trivial matter of some Oxo cubes. During the argument, Jade told Shilpa to "get back to the slums"whilst fellow inmate Danielle Lloyd asked "why doesn't she just f**k off back home?"
Yesterday, Jade will probably go down as the fastest recorded time for "digging your own grave on national television" after the shows producers called her to explain her "Shilpa Poppadom" remark.

The arguments as to what is and isn't racist will go on for much longer than Big Brother ever will. The comments being made to Shilpa are overtly racist but I don't think the animosity towards the Indian actress is racially motivated.
The problem is that Jade is fearful. Shilpa is an intelligent, successful and attractive woman who has shown that she can act in a dignified manner. Jade, for whatever reason, has seen that as a threat to her.

For Goody, this is the beginning of the end. Big Brother made her and it's about to break her in spectacular style.
Publicist Max Clifford made the point on Sky News yesterday that for anyone to recover from this sort of bad publicity, they would need to be and intelligent thinker and an intelligent speaker - Jade isn't either and I can't wait for the press to tie her in knots at the forthcoming press conference should she be evicted tonight.

She's shown herself up as a culturally ignorant individual who is completely undeserving of the success that has been afforded to her through a low-rent TV show.
The politicians are wading into the argument as well, with Gordon Brown on a mission to convince Indians that we aren't all that bad. What he probably doesn't realise though is that as he speaks, there are thousands of Jade Goody's in our inner city schools and job centres.