Publications

Publication details [#53412]

Riggs, Damien W. and Clemence Due. 2010. The management of accusations of racism in Celebrity Big Brother. Discourse & Society 21 (3) : 257–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

denying | interview | racism | reality | television

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores how the racist accusations of the four Celebrity Big Brother show (2007, UK) housemates of Bollywood film star Shilpa Shetty, made in their exit interviews, were reformulated by the interview host as both individual aberrations and matters of perception.