Charley says "No way. (Pause) Yeah, me. I’m a n****r. I am one. Fancy you saying it I know maybe you see it in a rap song. Maybe you and your friends sit there saying it."
Emily says "I’m friends with plenty of black people." Nicky asks "And you call them n*****s?" Emily replies "Yeah and they call me n*****s. They call me wiggers as well." Charley and Nicky keep repeating that they are shocked. Emily says "It’s not a big deal though is it?". Charley replies "Not for us it ain’t. F**k me". She goes on to say "What made you say that though? That is a bit racist Emily. Sorry I’m in shock".
Emily asks "But you’re not offended?" "No, not really" replies Charley. "But she might have been" chips in Nicky.
3:07am – Charley and Nicky get out of bed and are whispering in the living area about what Emily said. Nicky says "She obviously wasn’t thinking". Charley says "I know, it just come out, she’s used to saying it...". Nicky adds "she wasn’t being racist like ’you f**king n****r’ ... it was something that just shouldn’t come out".
When Big Brother asked what she meant by the term, she says that where she comes from it’s a "friendly term you know, making fun of people, being in a group ... I would never use any offensive words like that, you know? I would never say it in an offensive way."
Big Brother tells Emily that given the serious nature of the matter, there is no alternative other than to remove Emily from the house.
Big Brother asks Emily if there’s anything she’d like to say. She says "I’m so shocked. I’m so sorry I really didn’t mean it offensively, and oh my god, I’m just shocked. I never meant it like that."
In the living area, Charley and Nicky are exclaiming that Emily has been in the Diary Room for ages. Charley says "Cor blimey, why has happened? Over one small thing like that. A slip of the tongue..."
8th June 2007
