Celebrity Big Brother 2016: Campaigners call for show to be axed after nudity and sex scenes

Ofcom received 54 complaints about Monday night's episode of the reality show 
Axed? Campaigners call for Celebrity Big Brother to be taken off the air
Channel 5
Jennifer Ruby10 August 2016

Campaigners have called for Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother to be axed following scenes of sex and full frontal nudity.

After a week of particularly explicit content, Mediawatch-UK have slammed the show for having to ‘resort’ to low brow activity to keep viewers interested.

Speaking to the Daily Star, a spokesperson said: “If Channel 5 needs to resort to this sort of controversy to maintain any interest in Celebrity Big Brother, then perhaps the format needs to be allowed to die a bit more quietly.”

Despite the show being aired after the watershed, campaigners are concerned that minors are able to view episodes on Channel 5’s online on-demand service by simply stating that they are over 18.

“What’s most concerning here is Channel 5’s on-demand service that allows children to watch such programmes with just a box tick to say they’re old enough,” they added.

Ofcom received 54 complaints following Monday night’s episode, which saw Marnie Simpson and Lewis Bloor walk around the communal bathroom fully nude.

An Ofcom statement read: “We have received 54 complaints about Celebrity Big Brother from last night. We will assess these complaints before deciding whether to investigate or not.

Producers opted not to censor the nudity, which followed sexual scenes earlier in the episode.

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While 34 of these complaints related directly to the nude shower scene, 10 were about Stephen Bear’s ‘bullying’ and ‘sexual advances’.

Further complaints were made about ‘offensive behaviour’, ‘explicit sexual discussion’ and ‘use of the word psychopath’.

Saira Khan became the second person to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house on Tuesday evening.

Channel 5 have declined to comment to Evening Standard Online.

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