Additional Claims
On 1 February 2007, several British media outlets began reporting additional claims that Shilpa had in fact been called a "fucking Paki" by a housemate, although it was unclear whether this was the incident involving Jack. In another instance, Shilpa was reported to have been the subject of a 'limerick', improvised by one of the housemates, which began "there was a young girl from Bombay", and ended "this house was happy, until we got that fucking Paki". These claims allegedly come from an Endemol employee who was interviewed the previous day by Hertfordshire Police, and who provided them with a hand-written "production running-order", intended for Dermot O'Leary, the back of which detailed these episodes as well as noting "there ARE dodgy clips, we are fucked". Police were said to have demanded unedited footage of these alleged incidents from Endemol, who confidently denied the claims, and refused to hand over any footage. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to bring criminal charges against anyone or pursue unbroadcast footage through the courts. The informant did not come forward to have his/her claims tested.
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