So then, “Emily said: ‘Are you pushing it out, you nigger?’ to Charley Uchea, while they were dancing in the living room on Wednesday evening.”

So a white, middle class, young girl does that embarrassing gangsta thing that she and her white, middle-class friends do when they think they’re being kewl and down wid it. For that, she gets kicked out of the Big Brother house at 3.30am.

Apparently, people may be offended by someone saying “nigger” no matter in what context. So then, when Nicky says “she didn’t say ‘you fucking nigger'” in the conversation that followed, that is different? How so? Likewise on one of the many occasions when Charley is regaling people with the story – in this case to Shabnam – that’s different too. How so? Is it because they’re from ethnic majorities? It’s not the context, because that’s irrelevant, they said. So what else could it be?

And if Endemol/Channel 4 were being truly concerned about outraging the public, why did they choose to show it and then repeat it twice? After all, on the live bits they regularly silence out anything they feel like keeping quiet.

So they could have chosen to silence that piece and then have a quiet word with Emily. And edited out the – admittedly large – elements where Charley is drama-queening it up. Job done.

No, it’s just the same old shit, just a different time.