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

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: Big Brother, Africa, Fingergate



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.


Viewers flooded newspapers and Internet message boards with emails expressing outrage. Many of the emails contained photo clips from the program, which appeared to show housemate Richard Bezuidenhout, a 24-year-old film student from Tanzania, assaulting Ofunneka Molokwu, a 29-year-old medical assistant from Nigeria.


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


"There is no indication that [Molokwu] was unconscious at the time," M-Net executive Joseph Hundah said.


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, this is Africa.


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.


The fallout over what is now being dubbed 'Fingergate' continues.


Barf.

 

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imclever

imclever

Kent, WA
February 2007

NOV 04, 2007 09:05 AM

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.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

NOV 04, 2007 09:08 AM

surreal
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. blush

JimTheSoundman

JimTheSoundman

Sacramento, CA
April 2005

NOV 04, 2007 09:16 AM

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.)

_kungfoo_

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

NOV 04, 2007 09:34 AM

jimindc said:
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.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
whatever

KingHELL

kinghell

Portland, OR
July 2003

NOV 04, 2007 09:42 AM

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.)

Iridesce

Iridesce

HOPEFUL

Western Shore, NS

NOV 04, 2007 09:46 AM

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!

wereduck

wereduck

I'm lost
July 2007

NOV 04, 2007 09:47 AM

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

larose404

larose404

Columbia, SC
January 2004

NOV 04, 2007 10:12 AM

jimindc said:
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.)



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.

Dovanna

Dovanna

Minneapolis, MN
March 2007

NOV 04, 2007 10:17 AM

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 mad

And to air that on TV? WOW eeek

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Illinois, USA

NOV 04, 2007 10:30 AM

I fucking hate people.

TheAngrySloth

TheAngrySloth

York, ON
September 2003

NOV 04, 2007 10:57 AM

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

You don't say.

MrStitches

MrStitches

Sag Harbor, NY
November 2003

NOV 04, 2007 11:21 AM

KingHELL said:
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.)



Hahahahah.

SinisterMike

SinisterMike

Buffalo, NY
June 2004

NOV 04, 2007 11:28 AM

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

Trahern

Trahern

United Kingdom
March 2003

NOV 04, 2007 11:33 AM

Idiocy knows no bounds.

Dez

Dez

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

NOV 04, 2007 11:58 AM

HOLY FUCKING FUCK!

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