I'm always fascinated in "Big Brother" -- if only by trying to imagine the pillow talk between Julie Chen and Les Moonves ("...do you REALLY think Jame's hair color is nice...What about the tattoos?"
But the ninth season of a reality skein that makes "The Apprentice" look like Shakespeare got just the slightest jolt of controversy when one of the contestants called people with autism "retards." And wouldn't you just know? The anti-autism guy won last night.
Adam Jasinski didn't just win big -- he won BIG, with (I think) only one jury vote going to Ryan, who said nothing mean about people with autism (but will check the clips just to make sure.) Adam's "'Till Death Do You Part" housemate Sheila told him to shut his trap after he said (in a mid-February episode) that he'd spend his winnings on a hair salon "so retards can get it together and get their hair done." He had worked briefly in Florida for an autism charity, and so a prominent national charity (Autism United) promptly demanded that he be canned posthaste.
Instead, Adam goes on to win half a million clams! He said last night he'll donate $100,000 of that to an autism charity; no word on the hair salon.