Big Brother swearing

[chirpychirpy]

Why does Davina say 'You're live on Channel 4 - please do not swear' when every day they show at least 1 hour of recorded material from the Big Brother House which is littered with expletives?

[andy-hughes]

There are degrees of swearing which the broadcasting regulators will accept, and C$ can edit accordignly - bleeping if the more serious and unacceptbale words are used.

For a live broadcast, if Davina asks people not to swear, then Channel 4 has legally fulfilled its requirement not to allow gratuitous offensive langauge onto its airwaves unchecked. If an individual does then use a serious swearword, then the issue will be with the individual for ignoring the legal request, rather than the brodcaster for allowing the language onto its programme.

[Totterdown]

I don't know why she bothers to say it anyway. It is never ever live. There is always a delay of at least 15 minutes.