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Luke Valentine N-Word Controversy: Why Can’t ‘Big Brother’ Contestants Stop Being So Racist?<!-- wp:html --><p>Sonja Flemming/CBS</p> <p>We are only seven days into the new season of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/big-brother-kyle-and-alyssa-having-sex-on-pool-floats-scarred-me-for-life"><em>Big Brother</em></a>, and yet, we cannot escape the age-old tradition of some white hardbody slipping something racist into conversation. <em>Big Brother</em> 25 cast member <a href="https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1689346156458057728">Luke Valentine was caught</a> on the <em>Big Brother</em> live feeds last night in conversation with three other houseguests when he said, “I’m in the f---ing cheese room, n---a.”</p> <p>The caucasity jumped out.</p> <p>He followed that up by saying, “oops—<em>dude</em>,” which shares neither a consonant nor a single vowel sound with the previously mentioned n-word, but sure, let’s pretend that’s what he meant to say. Two other houseguests in the camera frame looked on in horror as the 30-year-old illustrator from Florida tried to laugh off the moment. Later, while in conversation with Black contestant Jared Fields, Valentine added, “Well, I'm in trouble now… I've been in worse trouble."</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/luke-valentine-why-cant-big-brother-contestants-stop-being-racist">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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We are only seven days into the new season of Big Brother, and yet, we cannot escape the age-old tradition of some white hardbody slipping something racist into conversation. Big Brother 25 cast member Luke Valentine was caught on the Big Brother live feeds last night in conversation with three other houseguests when he said, “I’m in the f—ing cheese room, n—a.”

The caucasity jumped out.

He followed that up by saying, “oops—dude,” which shares neither a consonant nor a single vowel sound with the previously mentioned n-word, but sure, let’s pretend that’s what he meant to say. Two other houseguests in the camera frame looked on in horror as the 30-year-old illustrator from Florida tried to laugh off the moment. Later, while in conversation with Black contestant Jared Fields, Valentine added, “Well, I’m in trouble now… I’ve been in worse trouble.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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