The latest series – which began just last Tuesday (7 June) – has already done so thanks to housemate Marco Pierre White Jr. It’s emerged that the past weekend’s episodes contained several moments that viewers took offence to, chief of which was Pierre White Jr asking fellow housemate Laura Carter to ‘choke’ him while straddling and groping one another.
Pierre White Jr – son of famous chef Marco Pierre White – had previously been filmed getting up and close with socialite Carter under her bed covers.
If Channel 5 felt it was under any pressure to outdo last year’s series of Big Brother in the controversy stakes, it needn’t worry.
Ofcom has since confirmed to Mirror Online that there has been a total of 252 complaints meaning the broadcasting regulator must now assess the situation.