Shilpa moving to UK, Jade to India?
The Shetty family has appointed high-level celebrity publicist Max Clifford to take on Shilpa's career.
By Sudeshna Sen, TNN |
LONDON: Chicken curry rules. Shilpa Shetty, as expected, walked out of the celebrity big brother show as the winner. Despite Jade Goody's attempts to woo India since her eviction, the British public has paid to make Shilpa Shetty the winner with a massive majority of 63% of the audience votes. As Shilpa walked out to a madly cheering crowd, after weeks of what's been a mega-media circus, she called out thank you, I love you, and ... Chicken curry rules. Shilpa leaves the house with a deluge of work offers, offers from rival newspapers to tell her story for big money, and a huge boost to her brand image in the UK. Immediately after as she was briefed about the racism row, which overshadowed Chancellor Gordon Brown's first visit to India, she stated: "Jade is not a racist person. I don't want anyone in the UK to think, we invited this Indian here and she made trouble for people. I want to thank all of Great Britain for giving me this chance to make my country proud. We are all human, and everyone makes mistakes."
After a rather hilarious interlude with her interviewer trying to get the right word for magnanimity - Shilpa did, her interviewer, Channel 4's presenter could not - she went on to say "I've never won anything in my life. Seriously, I lost even a silly contest I entered as a girl. And this is the first time I've been alone." She said she was looking forward to meeting her mother, who is in the UK over the weekend, in readiness to take over from here. The family has, it is reported in the media here, appointed high-level celebrity publicist Max Clifford to take on Shilpa's career from here on.
Her agent Jazz Barton, who negotiated her participation in the show, says she has received 45 phone calls an hour, half of them offers for work. Celebrity experts here said that Shilpa may not want to settle down to work in the UK, as 'Indians put their celebrities on a pedestal, and she's probably got a better option in India." Shilpa herself, after the episode however, told Channel 4 "I wouldn't mind living in the UK. Perhaps the whole furor can now settle down with Jade moving to India and Shilpa to England. One of the more interesting outcomes being predicted is by Paddy Powers, a bookmaker, which is betting that Shilpa and Jade will get their own odd-couple sitcom on the lines of Big Brother get me out of this racist row.
After a rather hilarious interlude with her interviewer trying to get the right word for magnanimity - Shilpa did, her interviewer, Channel 4's presenter could not - she went on to say "I've never won anything in my life. Seriously, I lost even a silly contest I entered as a girl. And this is the first time I've been alone." She said she was looking forward to meeting her mother, who is in the UK over the weekend, in readiness to take over from here. The family has, it is reported in the media here, appointed high-level celebrity publicist Max Clifford to take on Shilpa's career from here on.
Her agent Jazz Barton, who negotiated her participation in the show, says she has received 45 phone calls an hour, half of them offers for work. Celebrity experts here said that Shilpa may not want to settle down to work in the UK, as 'Indians put their celebrities on a pedestal, and she's probably got a better option in India." Shilpa herself, after the episode however, told Channel 4 "I wouldn't mind living in the UK. Perhaps the whole furor can now settle down with Jade moving to India and Shilpa to England. One of the more interesting outcomes being predicted is by Paddy Powers, a bookmaker, which is betting that Shilpa and Jade will get their own odd-couple sitcom on the lines of Big Brother get me out of this racist row.
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