1) Jade Goody is badly educated in comparison to Ms. Shetty but have you stopped to wonder why? She spent most of her childhood looking after her mentally-ill, drug-addicted mother. How did the Upper-Caste Ms. Shetty cope with that – oh, that’s right – she didn’t have to.

2) Ms. Goody is of West Indian descent – she has West Indian features – much of the media’s mockery is a result of this. Ironically, Ms. Shetty confirms to Western ideals of beauty more than Ms. Goody.

3) Could someone please tell me how people arrive at the conclusion that Ms. Shetty is intellectual. She failed to watch a single episode of Big Brother before agreeing to appear on the show and seems ignorant of the origins of its title. Germaine Greer observed that there was bullying on Big Brother when she walked out of the programme two years ago. My response was ‘Well, duh’. The programme’s title is derived from a novel that depicts a totalitarian state governed by a capricious, malevolent dictator known as ‘Big Brother’. Bullying? In that kind of environment? Who’d have thought it?

4) Finally, how, for the love of cake, does this sully the reputation of Britain? There are 60 million people in this country and less than 8 million watch Big Brother. As the Americans would say: ‘Do the math’.

I’m intrigued at the idea Jade Goody is paraded as ‘a role model.’ I’d have thought, rather, that she provides material for people who like to be enjoy the dream that they, too, can enjoy wealth and fame despite having little discernable talent for anything other than being famous for being famous (rather like the Lottery’s ‘it could be you’ idea). She’s also something of a clown, whose antics you can enjoy deploring without ever having to meet her — an important role in any soap opera. It’s rather, I think, the same sort of enjoyment some of us derive from the comments in The Guardian’s CiF section; many of the people who make them are clearly barking, and you’d hate to meet any of them in real life, but you find in them (at least I do) a horrible fascination that people can not only live up to, but excel, your worst expectations.

I don’t want to see Jade vilified as a racist. I don’t believe she is racist. Thick and ignorant but not racist.

Derek Laud (ex-bb contestant) was on sky this morning voicing the same opinion.

What I take offense to is the way in which it has now been portrayed as – if you vote for Shilpa to leave BB then you are a racist. Crap!

It’s not a government issue and shouldn’t have made it to PMQ’s yesterday.

Why hasn’t Jermaine Jackson been nailed as a racist when he referred to Jade’s mum as “White Trash�?

This issue has arisen as a result of ignorance, insecurity and frustration. Nothing more.

In an ideal world Jade would apologise to try and restore some of her public image, but I don’t think that is her style. I hope she will not be paid for newspaper interviews to talk about this. I suspect she will lose sponsorships/deals as she cannot be paraded as a role model for our youth following the outrage her behaviour has caused.

After leaving BB, I would suggest she needed time to reflect on all this. She should retain the essence of her character, minus the foul mouth, to realise that her behaviour has been offensive. Hopefully, Dolbyn can take her under his wing and spend time working on these issues.