Big Brother Broke The Rules

ICSTIS, the premium rate phones watchdog, has ruled that Channel 4′s Big Brother broke the rules and breached its guidelines during the series which finished in August. More than 2,600 complaints were made after it was announced that contestants – already evicted by a phone vote – would be allowed another chance to win.

Viewers claimed they had been misled after paying to vote out housemates and complained they would not have bothered ringing in to get a contestant evicted if they had known the rules of the competition would change.

Channel 4 has managed to weasel out of paying a fine because of their claim that Big Brother was an “editorially inventive show” but they must pay almost £50,000 in administrative costs.

An ICSTIS spokeman said: “The unprecedented number of complaints for this type of service, combined with the undoubted strength of feeling of the complainants, clearly indicated that voters genuinely felt that they had been misled over this twist.”

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