Big Brother says sorry after hitch confuses viewers

Celebrity Big Brother bosses were forced to apologise yesterday after a hitch in the previous night’s show left viewers confused about how to evict Shilpa.

The Bollywood beauty is up for eviction today with four other housemates — Dirk, Cleo, Jo, and H from Steps.

At the end of Wednesday night’s Channel 4 show, the on-screen message which flashed up on screen incorrectly told fans to call a number to save Shilpa.

Viewers were left perplexed as the voiceover correctly said to call the same number to evict the star, whose treatment at the hands of Jade, Jo and Danielle sparked international fury.

Channel 4 was forced to cancel all the votes that had been placed and restart the process last night.

It says refunds will be given to all those who have already voted.

Shilpa, whose win would be good news for Channel 4 following the race row, is favourite to win this year’s controversial series.

Endemol, the TV giant which makes Big Brother, released a statement saying:

“We apologise to viewers and feel the best way to rectify it is to cancel the vote so far and re-open the voting again.”