Another year, another Big Brother “Race Row”, this time from the unlikely source of Wendy Richard.

According to The Mirror (sorry, I like doing their crossword), “The former EastEnders actress sparked uproar with her “Chinese” outburst about Thai housemate Kat Kasisopa. She described Kat as “very fake” before adding: “What is it they say about these inscrutable Chinese? “And she is Thai, but it is all Oriental isn’t it? Well it is to me anyway. “They don’t betray their emotions on their face, that is what I meant.”

I honestly hadn’t heard anything about this until today. Either I haven’t been paying attention, or nobody seems that bothered about the whole thing. As the Avenue Q soundtrack in my car says, “everyone’s a little bit racist sometimes”.