# Tonight's Big Brother phone vote income to go to charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/01/19/tonight039s-big-brother-phone-vote-income-go-charity/
- Published: 2007-01-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Following the racism row about the current series of Celebrity Big Brother, broadcaster
Channel 4 will donate the income from tonight’s phone vote to charity. The charities
which will receive this £2 million or so will, ironically, be nominated by the contestants
when the show is over.
Channel 4 has remained defiant about broadcasting the show:
Chief Executive Andy Duncan said he was “not ashamed of what was broadcast, quite
the opposite”.

Labout MP Keith Vaz had urged Channel 4 to donate the money to charities concerned
with raising racial awareness.

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