Celebrity Big Brother faced with ‘racism’ accusations on opening night

In a new twist, the ‘All Star’ housemates were charged with being ‘producers’ on the show, and separated from the ‘New Star’ celebrities. In the first show, they were asked to choose a ‘New Star’ who should be ‘edited out’ of the programme.

The criteria for choosing someone was who would be ‘least entertaining’ to the viewers at home. They decided upon Stacy – despite knowing her for a matter of minutes – because they surmised that she would be the most likely to ‘kick off’ (and hence be entertaining presumably?)

This did not go down with viewers at home, who were bemused by the decision. Many felt Stacy had already been cast as the ‘angry black woman’, and that this act – which saw her sitting outside on her own in the cold wearing a beige tracksuit – would only encourage the narrative.

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I'd leave tbf. Using Stacy as some puppet for the "angry black woman" act. Disgraceful #cbb

— Naomi (@naomiinomes) January 3, 2017

That's wrong they wanna chose Stacy to make her angry for entertainment?!! What for her to be the angry black woman ?? #CBB

— l o v e. (@MargyMagz) January 3, 2017

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