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Oops. F Bomb on Big Brother

Big Brother censors weren't quick enough to stop the F-Bomb airing in its family friendly timeslot.

f-boBig Brother censors weren’t quick enough on the panic button last night when one housemate managed to drop the F-Bomb (Live) on air in its family friendly timeslot.

Ed dropped the word just moments after Heidi had been evicted in between various bleeps and sobbing housemates.

The Live eviction show currently operates under a brief delay to allow for audio censoring.

Free TV Australia has recommended allowing M rated content to air from 7:30pm and MA material from 8:30pm in ACMA’s community guidelines review.

Big Brother is rated PG.

13 Responses

  1. I find Big Brother to be a unique social experiment.
    Contrary to what most people on this page think, we can tell Channel Nine has put a lot of effort into rebooting it and thinking of fresh ideas to entertain their audience.

    It shows us how people think when they are confined in a house left to their own devices and to young people like me, we find it entertaining. Even though Nine aren’t getting the best ratings for this show I’m glad they are sticking by it- and compared to what England and the United States are airing (i.e Jersey Shore, The Valleys, their own versions of BB) we’re lucky to have at least one show like this. But then again, many of us are turning to the internet to provide us with controversial shows like those previously stated.

  2. Someone must have had good hearing or watched it over & over to pick it up. I was watching & I didn’t hear it as so many people on screen were talking or crying or whatever…
    David do we know if it was picked up from a public complaint or did Nine or the producers cop to it themselves?

  3. @Loz – they can swear all they like, but during the few minutes each week when they’re doing a live cross, they’re explicitly warned about any kind of swearing for those few minutes. As I said, I don’t have a problem with that or any other word either. But it will have repercussions on the network and the production (as it aired during a kid friendly timezone) when a housemate says it in live on a show and the censors don’t catch it.

  4. I agree 100% Loz. One slip up is not that bad its not like kids haven’t heard the word before but on a live or kinda live show sometimes its just bad luck and people miss things. I didnt even hear it lol.

  5. @gregaus….Well for starters they a still living a life, you can’t expect someone to stop swearing or to never swear at all, that’s ridiculous. Its a different thing if they are doing it purposefully but if they do it without meaning to like Ed did then it should be fine, they can bleep it out usually.

    I heard it and didn’t care and if someone has a problem with the F word then seriously they need to get a life.

  6. Watched the show but didn’t hear that. Dropping the odd F bomb in that situation isn’t going to stress me out too much but gratuitious sex and violence in a ‘family friendly’ time-slot does.

  7. I remember the days when on Ten the F bomb drop was still an issue but because it was rated M it was less controversial.

    Nine’s whole “family friendly” Big Brother may have seemed like a good idea to make it more inclusive and less a show people were quick to hate… but it’s not the same. It’s made the show a lot less fun.

    I just miss the days when BB was always live and featured at least 18 bleeps per episode. The fact this is such a gasping shock on Nine is sad.

  8. While I am not the least bit offended this happened, I still don’t understand why housemates (year after year) can’t follow simple instructions. They’re told not to swear for this very reason.

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