Shilpa Shetty's forays into reality shows

Now, don't tell me all this hullabaloo is about nothing.

It is a cleverly orchestrated publicity gimmick to boost Channel 4 viewership and incidentally Shilpa's career.

One wonders why she has not made a formal complaint to the producers of the show without which they cannot take any action on the so called offenders.

By the way is racism something new? When recently recruited nurses from Kerala were targeted in Uk, called Pakis, stones thrown at therir windows and car tyres deflated, it did not make the headlines and not a single channel in India aired it. And dont we ourselves practice color discrimination, The booming sales of fairness creams tells the story. Much worse, we still practise untouchability in our villages and small towns, dalits live in ghettoes.

Bitching? Most heroines of Bollywood bitch against each other in private and sometimes in public. Their vocab may not match Jade's but surely hurt as much.

Why is it that her mother is not in the least bit perturbed and calls this a learning experience for her daughter so she can grow as a person, from the cocooned existence she had till now.

There is lot of moolah involved a cool 35 million and if she stays till the end may be a prize money much higher than that.

So keep your fingers crossed and pray for Shilpa baby. She is growing up fast.

Incidentally could not Tony Blair,Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, Chidambaram, Sitaram Yechury, UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, spared their breath for mightier causes such as coming elections in UK , withdrawal of troops from Iraq, the agitation in singur and directions for next year's budget, etc.

As they say bad publicity is better than no publicity as long as u hit the headlines of UK's tabloids and broadsheets and most of the aaltu phaaltu chananels in our own country.

Long l ive Big Brother and all his bitchy sisters.