Not surprisingly in the wake of the current Paula Dean controversy which is all over the media and still hotly debated in comments here, the bigots on Big Brother are being fired left and right. First CBS came out and said that they do not condone the behavior shown on the live feeds and that it sadly shows the actual thoughts of the houseguests. Further CBS has stated they do not intend to show their bigotry on the televised show because they do not want to further disseminate hatred on their network station. No mention was made on last night’s show of the bigoted statements the houseguests make openly on the livefeeds which continue to receive attention from bloggers and entertainment sites across the Internet. Rachel Riley and Brendon released a statement to TMZ saying they are appalled and disgusted about the behavior as well.
So far today, Aaryn Gries and Gina Marie Zimmerman have been fired from their day jobs. Aaryn was represented by Zephyr Talent and was dropped as a client. Zephyr Talent gave the following statement, “Aaryn Gries, season 15 cast member of Big Brother, revealed prejudices and other beliefs that we do not condone. We certainly find the statements made by Aaryn on the live Internet feed to be offensive. Upon much consideration, we have decided to release Aaryn from her contract with Zephyr Talent.”
Gina Marie, who was until today a pageant coordinator for East Coast Pageants, was relieved from her employment. East Coast Pageants issued the following statement, “We are actually thankful that this show let us see GinaMarie for who she truly is. We would never want her to be a role model to our future contestants. In a business where we are surrounded by beauty every day we are saddened to see something so ugly come from someone we put on a very high pedestal.” I find it hard to believe that no one at East Coast Pageants realized Gina Marie was blatantly racist as she makes absolutely no attempt to hide it on the live feeds and the comments began very shortly after she entered the house.
Well is seems that another Big Brother Bigot is about to lose his job. Spencer Clawson, who exposes himself to the camera, calls women cunts, says black pussy is overrated, calls Andy Kermit the fag, and makes continuous racist comments about Candice and Helen, and misogynistic comments about all the women in the house is in the process of being released from his employment as a railroad conductor based on his vile behavior.
Here is the official statement from Union Pacific Railroad:
The values represented by Spencer Clawson’s comments during the Big Brother show do not at all align with Union Pacific’s values. Mr. Clawson is on unpaid leave of absence while participating on Big Brother. Union Pacific does not condone his comments.
Union Pacific is acting in accordance with Collective Bargaining Agreement terms regarding Mr. Clawson.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
During our in-depth discussion of Paula Dean’s backlash based on a court deposition, her situation was compared to that of Alec Baldwin who appears to never suffer consequences for his numerous tirades. Some felt that women were held to a higher standard. In this situation neither Jeremy or Spencer have felt any consequences of their bigotry. Will we see some in the future? Do you feel as though these measures are too harsh for the houseguests? Do you hope to see more people reprimanded in some way?
Do you feel as though CBS should air their true behavior on Big Brother? Do you expect them to address the issue at all on tonight’s live eviction? We know the houseguests have been asked to stop the racial slurs. We also know the houseguests did not take the admonition seriously and continued to do so. If the house guests were made aware of the public perception of the houseguests that their behavior would change? Do you think that Candice, Helen and Andy are aware of the bigotry they are surrounded by since most of the derogatory comments occur out of ear shot?
Please weigh in below with your thoughts and opinions.
Did you mean Jeremy instead of Andy, of did I miss Andy’s comments?
Oh, sorry… Mis-read your writing. Apologize! They are the one’s the comments were directed toward…
There is now a 5 minute delay on the live feeds. Not sure if they beep out comments or just drop the audio on comments the producers don’t like. I am sure that Helen/Andy/Candice et.al., feel the tension even if they don’t hear the actual comments. Shameful. Did you see that Jeremy rubbed Elissa’s hat on his ass crack? He was made to tell her and say “sorry” plus the producers are buying her a new one out of his stipend. Who are these people and where did they find them?
Making the live feeds useless once again…
I just cannot even begin to fathom how these imbeciles say these things knowing that everyone will see and hear them. I truly cannot understand this level of ignorance. My brain is about to spiral right out of my head trying to wrap around this.
It just boggles my mind. Even out of the game the concept of “Big Brother” has meaning.
I really think that Jeremy, Amanda, Aaryn, GinaMarie have no understanding that they are actually being recorded & watched 24/7.
Last night on the live feeds Jeremy took Elissa’s hat and wiped it on his ass crack. … He was admonished in the diary room. When he came out and told his giver of blow jobs Kaitlin that “I didn’t even have my mic on. They are not going to show that”. LOL what an asshat in the true sense of the word.
Ughhhhh! Seriously! What gutter did they scrape these people out of?!?
I suppose part of it is that they are not thinking about you or me but are thinking about how jazzed up their personal friends will be hearing them make these remarks on TV. Just waiting for the hi 5’s when they get home to their peers.
What makes it especially wrong this year is that the viewers now vote to give power to their favorite player each week. So cute, sweet little Aaryn could conceivably win a power that could help her win the game, given by people who may have no idea what has been coming out of her mouth. This kind of editing combined with a power given by viewers essentially boils down to fixing a competition show. How is CBS or Alison Grodner going to explain themselves if Aaryn or GinaMarie win the game? Because of this new power they need to either be more honest with the viewers or be more adamantly firm with the houseguests – knock it off or you’re out. Period.
It is now covered by TMZ, People, Huffington Post, an ABC morning show and TT. Hard to miss if you’re a CBS fan and not a live feeder.
I may frame that comment. 🙂
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Tamara Tattles
You know Reality TV Contestants sign contracts that state that your reputation could be tarnished etc? Looking back at Amy’s Bakery ( Gordan Ramsey show?) when Amy wanted to speak up how they amp up the drama, I am wondering if this is all smoke — was this previously recorded? The 5 minute delay does not sit well with me.
I just do not trust Reality TV anymore.
I am shocked that there is such ignorance STILL in this country. I haven’t watched BB this season, or kept up with the live feed transcripts because I had heard so many bad things about this season’s cast. I didn’t want to read about that much hate and ignorance, so I’ve skipped trying to keep up and have given up on the show. I’m hoping the ratings will be poor because many people will also refuse to watch.
I think CBS should CANCEL the show. Fire the cast. Pay them for their time so far, and say sorry, game over because we refuse to profit off blatant racism and hate. Or, kick off the offenders and let the game continue. They can’t just let it go ON and not address it!
WTF will these people say after they leave that house..? I can’t even begin to imagine how they will justify their words and now, actions- i.e. wiping your ass with someone else’s hat..??!!? Who ARE these people?
The problem is in the past Big brother bigots were given hero edits. Evel Dick was the biggest misogynistic bully of all time in the house and Jeff Schroeder made numerous gay slur tirades. Both of those individuals were invited back to subsequent seasons and given big brother talk show jobs on CBS.com. A little consistency by CBS would be nice based on their own standards not just what is popular in society at the time.
CBS should air the comments – show them for who they really are – especially since the public picks the MPV who then nominates someone for eviction. There is a prize of $500,000 to the winner – by CBS not showing them for who they are they are condoning their behavior by silence and deception to the prime time viewing audience.
Had the Paula Deen events not occurred so recently to these events I am not sure those two would have been fired – I think it might have been chalked up to young people being ignorant. That being said if the companies that employ the other bigots ddont want to fire the others then so be it – people vote with their dollars so those companies may experience repercussions.
I think they would have been fired anyway. It’s far from the first time someone comes out of the BB house (or some tropical island) to find that due to their horrendous behavior, their employer wants nothing more to do with them.
Total morons. I’m glad they got fired. People have to learn to carry themselves with class. If you can’t be classy or at least mindful of youself on camera, you don’t deserve a job.
I doubt CBS will ever cover this on Big Brother. If they have any integrity they would do a segment on 60 minutes to address the horrible bigotry and racism that these fools carried on about from the jump. If CBS won’t do it, then I would love to see either ABC or NBC go after this garbage with an news show depicting the nasty and calling them out on it. I am glad that TMZ has picked up the baton and is keeping it alive.
TT yes I do think the femiales are held to a higher standard. Spenser has been just as vile, calls women cunts and talks about his drug days…..and this man works in the public eye? Hopefully he looses his job as well although I suspect he is a unionized employee so might be a little tougher to take him out.
Oh don’t be silly. Why would they fire him? It’s not like he is something important like a model or something. HE’S JUST A TRAIN CONDUCTOR with a penchant for exposing his genitals on national live feed. I’m sure he only wacks off during the straight track.
SMDH
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Tamara Tattles
Eeeewwww I just threw up in my mouth. The thought of his genitals is just soooooooo unappealing. So glad I missed that on the feeds, might have caused irreparable
harm.
I had the misfortune of seeing his um junk. There was debate over whether it was ball or peen so to speak as it was very small.
LMAO, just lost my coffee on my keyboard. It was worth it. Heard David also had a little master, glad I missed that one as well.
As we all know, production has been playing a huge part in bb, especially the last few years. I have no doubt that with all of the controversy regarding the behavior of this cast that “big brother” is definitely making major game decisions behind the scenes, and wouldn’t be surprised if some of the worst offenders don’t make it very far in this game. Tonight was a good start I guess, but as someone who has been watching since season one, I find it very disheartening that this behind the scenes meddling happens, and that they make it so obvious. I agree with you… cancel the show and kick these bigots to the curb, or maybe just replacing the offending players would be better. Show them that decent people still get a shot, and due to their ugliness, theirs is gone. That would be a good lesson to them. I am glad that I didn’t waste my money on the live feeds yet, and unless something changes I refuse to add any money to this anti melting pot.
I am all for them casting bigots. The whole point of the show is to get a cross section of the great unwashed. BUT THE POINT IS TO SHOW IT ON THE SHOW! I don’t see how getting rid of the mentally challenged dude and letting the two biggest bigots on the show decide which should be HOH is “a good start.” 🙂
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Tamara Tattles
Oh. I am mistaken. I thought that he had made a lot of sexist slurs and had been bad mouthing gay people. I don’t have the live feeds and am confusing what I’ve read.
Who David? Sorry for confusing you. I am not sure David is actually for real. I don’t see how anyone could be that stupid. I think he is like those blond chicks who fake stupid to appeal to men. I forget what he actually said. It was offensive, but mostly he was just going along with his racist buddies. If he is not acting he is not capable of having an original thought. He’s more like a parrot. A parrot with low intellect for a parrot. 🙂 I am thrilled he is gone.
Tamara, I am wondering, will you be providing the date and time of must see moments from the live feeds? I am now thinking about getting them, even though a huge part of me doesn’t want to, but I feel so out of the loop now, and I’m not used to it and I don’t like it. Even if they are horrendous people. I am assuming live feeds still let you view past filming as they used to? I just have so much going on right now, I don’t have the time to sit around waiting for the juicy moments. I have another blog that I have used for years that provides that, but I’d much rather get all the tea here (one stop shopping for all of my reality tv needs!)
I be poor and never pay for the feeds. Usually someone will share a nic with me but no one had offered this year. I think the feeds are now somehow connected to your twitter and such and I could visit them if I had the login info for feeds. Eventually someone will send me an email with some black market feeds but that is usually late in the season.
I read a good recap place when I have time. and will remember to add the timestamp here for you.
Sadly livefeeds are something not in my budget (like starbucks and fancy clothes) so that every June I can go on a vacay. And since my um Internet access is sketchy… I usually can’t watch feeds anyway.
I am blathering. Get the feeds. Then you can tell US the timestamps. 🙂
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Tamara Tattles
OH and if you are going to buy the feeds, buy them from my pals at TVfishbowl.com. Just don’t let them convert you and steal you away. 🙂
On some of the other blogs regarding this topic the majority feel that people should have free speech to say whatever they want without repercussions . Well if that’s the case then companies should have the same freedom to do what they want to do because they don’t condone or tolerate these views. If a person has certain views towards different races of people then fine, but don’t expect that everyone will turn a blind eye to it. Now you deal with the consequences that come along with it.
They have free speech, no one’s stopping them. But that doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t free to react to what they’re saying. Both of them have jobs that entail representing the brand they’re working for, so destroying their images is definitely grounds for being fired.
Aaryn lost another gig today. Some short people modeling thing. But don’t worry y’all Aaryn was up all night talking about the choir of angels above that are looking out for her because she is one of the good people.
Well I guess even her Angels have abandoned her in disgust.
Seriously, Aaryn and GinaMarie and the poster children for the term “White Devil”. I am so glad they are losing their day jobs because of this.
I do think that women face a harsher backlash than men, but in this case these two are really taking the cake with the shit coming out of their mouths. The nigger insurance line is by the far the worst to me.
TT, read online that Aaryn Gries’ father posted a response to the petition on change.org to remove his daughter. The commenter said when she read it she was horrified as he defended his daughter and excused her actions; I would have taken my kid out to the woodshed and tore his ass up, even at this age. Of course I didn’t raise my son to be like this and always encouraged him to embrace differences, not reject or be afraid of them. If I was Aaryn’s parents, I think I would have demanded CBS send her packing no matter what lie I had to tell to get them to do it. The commenter said that it appeared that this fool is a chip off the old block.
I have been hunting for the comment but have not found it anywhere, it was supposed to be all over twitter “the other day” whenever that is.
Aaryn had a friend handle her twitter account for her but the friend started to defend Aaryn but after a few tweets must have had more info because she then stated that she did not endorse Aaryns comments and therefore was no longer willing to handle tweets on her behalf. Looks like little miss KKK bigot is losing a lot more than jobs.
Yes I saw that also. I favorited it & retweeted it, but now it seems it has disappeared from my page. Weird.
Is this it? pic.twitter.com/WdKP2Ci7Lh re alleged family response to change petition #BB15 #RacistAaryn
Finally found it via twitter search??
Yep that’s it.
@ Urethra This is what I finally found on twitter , is this what you saw? https://twitter.com/ReillyPower/status/352919869022408706/photo/1
Yes it is…
Thanks, sent a PM to originator of petition asking for confirmation that he was indeed contacted by her family. Will be curious to see what he has to say. I understand Jeremy’s Dad is on twitter with foul mouth but haven’t found his twitter name yet.
Since she doesn’t see anything wrong with what she says as evidenced by her conversation with Judd saying she didn’t think she had offended anyone back home, this kind of behavior is very likely learned from and spoken in the home…especially if daddy dearest supported her behavior. So sad in this day and time.
Do these girls inside the house know that they have been dismissed from their day jobs?
Nope. That is the beauty of it. Aaryn has said several times she expects to book a lot of work from being on the show. Also that she wants to know the breakdown on voting for MVP because she is sure she is very close to Elissa in votes because she is beautiful and everyone loves her good heart and angels are watching over her and her goodness. It’s hysterical.
Meanwhile BB has warned them SEVERAL times about racist comments and told them that their family and friends and bosses are watching them and the bigots keep being bigots while the others have the light come on and realize that the bigots comments are not playing well to the public. The bigots don’t have sense enough to realize they are bigots.
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Tamara Tattles
In fact the other night misogynist Spencer made some racist remark followed by something like that will make in on my stereotypes reel.
You would think the head of CBS, Les Moonves (Jewish) and his wife, Julie Chen (Asian) would be appalled at the behavior of this cast, but they are raking in the cash, so they will only pretend to be horrified. The more controversy, the more viewers. The liberals love to pile on Paula Deen for something she said 30 years ago, but they overlook liberal Alec Baldwin’s gay slurs.
julie chen actually had an interview about the remarks. she told the interviewer that she was bullied in school for being racist and those comments brought her back to her school days. racism happens everywhere. not just in the bb house.
I am so very disappointed in this cast. The bigotry is shocking and they have no idea what they have done! Some have ruined their careers. I love the show but unless they get a new producer or casting person tgey show is doomed.