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January 18, 2007

Carphone Warehouse pulls CBB sponsorship

squid @ 2:27 pm

Via Sky News

The whole racist bullying campaign in the Big Brother house has prompted the show’s sponsor to pull out of it’s sponsorship of the show.

OFCOM has so far received 27,000 complaints.

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6 Comments

  1. Excellent… hopefully this is the beginning of the end for Big Brother!

    /drums fingers

    Comment by Stephen — January 18, 2007 @ 3:09 pm

  2. I agree with Bif.

    Comment by frankp — January 18, 2007 @ 4:07 pm

  3. […] Now I can reveal, though not exclusively (TCAL got there first), that Carphone Warehouse has pulled its sponsorship of the show, citing the racist and bullying behaviour of Jade. But that doesn’t interest me. […]

    Pingback by Dublin Opinion » Revelling in Old News — January 18, 2007 @ 4:38 pm

  4. wow, u cant buy this kind of publicity! profiting from racism. fair dues to carphone warehouse, big brother, and the collective genius scum behind the whole thing. its the stuff dreams are made of. and carphone actually come out looking all dignified and caring. now THAT is good PR. step in virgin mobile, who knows.

    Comment by krynn — January 18, 2007 @ 4:46 pm

  5. Woooo, take it Big Brother, you pack of c*nts ;)

    John

    Comment by John — January 18, 2007 @ 6:07 pm

  6. its just crap beyond crap

    http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1441708_1,00.html

    Comment by krynn — January 22, 2007 @ 7:58 pm

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