Big Brother Controversies Through the Years

June 2024 · 1 minute read

Controversies are nothing new for Big Brother.

The show has been criticized for racism and discrimination over the years, making primary waves with an incident that took place in season 15. During the 2013 season, Aaryn Gries referred to Asian other people as “squinty-eyed,” called her Black roommate Candice Stewart “Aunt Jemima” and asked her Korean housemate Helen Kim to “pass make some rice.”

GinaMarie Zimmerman and Spencer Clawson were also accused of insensitive comments throughout the season, such a lot in order that host Julie Chen Moonves spoke about it on The Talk.

“I took it for my part,” the host mentioned at the time. The in reality sad phase was it took me again to the ’70s when I was rising up in Queens, when I was 7, being bullied … Then I felt ignorant. There are still people who feel that approach? Yes, there's.”

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Scroll through the gallery underneath for some of the greatest controversies from the display.

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