NEWS: Fingergate. Seriously. That Is What It Is Being Called.

POLITICS: Fingergate. Seriously. That Is What It Is Being Called.

Welcome to the world of creepy and awful: It's Big Brother in South Africa. Things went horribly wrong during the filming of South Africa's second season of Big Brother. A woman got incredibly drunk, passed out, at which point her housemate sexually abused her. And to top it off, producers apparently thought it was totally okay to air.



Ofunneka Molokwu is a 29-year-old medical assistant who decided to spend the day drinking. She black out after an extended period of vomiting. That's when 24-year-old housemate Richard Bezuidenhout decided to take advantage of the woman. As another housemate begged him to stop, Bezuidenhout "penetrated her vagina with his fingers" while Molokwu lay unconscious. He then sat down in a chair across the room and sniffed his fingers for a while. Seriously. This actually happened on television, while people watched at home.

The pay-TV channel insists that no such attack took place, even though people watched it occur. The channel took the high road.

Riiiight. I guess that is why producers called paramedics after the attack and cut the live feed, because all was well. Oh, and go fuck yourself.



In South Africa a woman is assaulted every 40 seconds. Bezuidenhout's actions constitute rape under South African law. Bezuidenhout decided to top the assault by being an even bigger asshole when he opened his Neanderthal mouth to explain his actions to his other housemates.

Well, then maybe we can get you killed by a lion.



Now, in an even more hideous turn of events, the controversy is being called "Fingergate." Seriously.

Barf.

Can so -called Reality TV be outlawed and the people that bring us this tripe be shot now?

Please?

Except for Kid Nation, I sorta like that one. I like the insane kid from Georgia.

That made me a bit sick.

Who is the producer of the show ?, I'm not clear. I though BB was a FOX network show.
I don't watch tv much.

There is a version of Big Brother in almost all countries. Please note this happened on the SOUTH AFRICAN version of Big Brother, which is an independent show produced in SOUTH AFRICA and really has not much to do with any other version, in any other country (except for the name.)

Yes, let's please not drag the good name of a show like Big Brother through the mud.

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This was obviously just a ratings ploy to compete with the auto-erotic asphyxiation episode of the South African version of The Amazing Race. (Not to be confused with the TV series of the same name broadcast during apartheid, which was all about white people.)

ho-ly shit! That made me ill! I have no words to even rant right now about what should be done to those ppl....not to mention the ppl letting it happen behind teh camera...then SHOWING IT! FUCK!

Can the suffix "-gate" be outlawed, as it pertains to scandals? I mean, "Fingergate"? Seriously? What idiot thought that was clever?

Umm... no.

This is Big Brother AFRICA- Big Brother South Africa has already had three seasons. This is a pan-regional version of Big Brother in which contestants from 12 African countries are competing.

Also all Big Brother's are produced in part by Endemol.

Fingergate?? That sounds so commercial and even humorous. It's sexual assault. Not funny, and not to be dumbed down to a catchy media-friendly "word of the moment".

UGH! grrrrrrrrrrrrr

And to air that on TV? WOW

Really? There's creeps and sickos in the world? And some of them are running television programs?

You don't say.

Hahahahah.

first David 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Duke, now this.

Idiocy knows no bounds.

My sentiments exactly.

How repulsive.

welcome to reality.

But do you both love parties?

Do you work for Big Brother or something?

This situation is unconscionable.

Probably Endemol.

Is that you Sean? Jeremy?

How absolutely revolting. I just... why do people do these things?

That poor girl.

According to a fan weblog the sex was consensual.

I am still looking for more info, but there are far too many "Fingergate" incidents. The finger in the chili hoax, Bush, Justice Scalia of the US Supreme Court and a few others have also been labeled "Fingergate" in the past.

Clutters the Google search, you know.

Innocent until proven guilty and all that....not that anyone seems to give a shit about anything other than the court of public opinion.

That's pretty kinky, but probably not the best way to teach her how not to skip work.