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newspaper made no attempt to contact me, but
appears to have relied solely on reports in the
Jewish media. Big mistake. London, Sunday, November 2, 2008 Protests at
Irving's audition for Celebrity Big
Brother by Rajeev Syal DAVID Irving, the disgraced
historian and
Holocaust
denier, was considered as a
contestant for the reality television show
Celebrity Big Brother, prompting astonishment and
anger from Jewish campaigners. The 70-year-old author, described by a High
Court judge as 'anti-semitic and racist', had a
90-minute meeting with the production company
Endemol and discussed taking part in the next
series in January. The disclosure follows a week of intense debate
over the ethics of entertainment following lewd and
insulting comments made by Jonathan Ross and
Russell Brand on Radio 2. Endemol was
severely rebuked by the media regulator Ofcom last
year for allowing former Celebrity Big Brother
contestant Shilpa Shetty to become the
target of sustained racial abuse. Irving announced
on his website that he had received a 'top secret
provisional invitation' in September. He was
told last week that he had not made the final
selection. Leading historians and Jewish figures were
incredulous yesterday at Endemol's apparent
invitation. Deborah
Lipstadt, the American historian who
defeated a High Court libel case brought by Irving,
wrote
on her blog: 'This is beyond belief.' Mark Gardner, a director at the Community
Security Trust, the Jewish anti-racism body, said:
'It is pathetic in the extreme that a
Holocaust denier
should even be considered as light entertainment
for a reality TV show.' A spokesman for Endemol said that Irving had not
been 'seriously considered' as a
contestant. -
David
Irving invited on Celebrity Big
Brother
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Deborah Lipstadt's double-take: Has
someone lost their mind?
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David
Irving's Books
The
Deborah Lipstadt Libel action-
A
film to be directed by Ridley Scott, about David
Irving and Deborah Lipstadt and the famous
Holocaust denial trial
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Deutsche Welle (German propaganda radio)
reports: Screenplay
writer Ronald Harwood working on a film of the
trial of David Irving
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