Lloyd garnered significant negative publicity when thousands of complaints were filed with Ofcom after she, Jade Goody, and Jo O'Meara, were bullying and claims of the three were making racist remarks towards their fellow house mate, Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty. Specific comments Lloyd has made about Shetty include "She's a dog" and "They eat with their hands in India, don't they – or is that China? You don't know where her hands have been."[17].[18][19] In another outburst, Lloyd said "do you get stubble?"[20]On 17 January 2007, Lloyd declared she thought Shetty should "**** off home", adding that "she can't even speak English properly".[21] After a similar comment by Goody, Lloyd laughed and said to Goody, "That was ******* fantastic, I loved it. I think she should **** off home."[22]
A newspaper interview made before Celebrity Big Brother, from November 2006, revealed Lloyd's anti-immigration views: "If I was (a politician), I'd get more people into work and stop people coming into the country. There's so many people who come into England because they know they can get benefits. People who already live here should get the jobs".[23] It has since become apparent that Lloyd was warned against racist behaviour prior to going into the house, in an email sent to her by her agent at the time, Angela de Fouw.[24]
