Channel 4’s Big Brother may be back in hot water with Premium Rate Regulator ICSTIS due to a slipup made on this week 2007 Celebrity Big Brother. ICSTIS has said that it intends to examine footage which saw on-screen text mistakenly instruct viewers to place votes to “save” Silpa Shetty while the voiceover said, correctly, a vote would be to “evict” her.

In my opinion a genuine mistake by Big Brother but nether the less ICSTIS has said that it will investigate to see if it breaches their “Code Of Practice”.

Big Brother & ICSTIS are certainly no strangers! BB has recently been hit with an “administration charge” (NOT a fine) for a breach of a recent BB episode and also again during last years Big Brother where evicted house mate Nikki Grahame returned to the BB house after viewers used Premium Rate SMS and Premium Rate Phone Lines to evict her. Although ICSTIS has the power to hand out fines as high as £250,000 for a single offence it is very unlikely that the fine will be any where as high as that, I personally expect Big Brother to receive little more than a slap on the wrist.

Helping Channel 4’s case is the fact that they are already offering refunds to viewers who voted between Wednesday 10pm and Thursday 9pm - estimated by one report at as many as 20,000 - with any unclaimed vote money going to charitiable organisations.

If you called during Wednesday 10pm to Thursday at 9pm ensure that you reclaim your call charge from your Network Operator as your vote didnt count!