well, he is british, right? perfect match.
I’m not sure there is a context where it would be appropriate but since you asked I delved into the depths of the internet and emerged from the murk of the Daily Mail with this:
The exchange came as Rodrigo and Bad Girls Club star Natalie Nunn were bombarding Gabby with questions about her relationship with Dan Osborne, as she proclaimed they were nothing more than friends.
As Rodrigo admitted the ex-TOWIE star was ‘nice to look at,’ Gabby said: ‘That was what the most annoying thing, we got on great as mates, my ex-boyfriend said something went on. We couldn’t really be friends after that but that was it.’
Referring to his relationship with actress Jacqueline Jossa, Dan said: ‘I am married yeah, but we separated.’
Rodrigo then left his housemates outraged by saying: ‘I prefer n**** boys!’
I have no idea who any of the people referred to are so please don’t ask…
As I say that is from the Daily Mail so take with the usual shipping container of salt although when it comes to racist slurs, they’re usually spot on.
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The n word is primarily a US slur, and is interpreted differently in different environments.
This was a problem with the Jackson Jive incident on Hey Hey It’s Saturday where a US guest reacted in horror to something which the Australian performers thought was perfectly okay.
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What do you mean by “policing”?
If I say that “plastic surgeons should be limited in what they may do” or that “people with extensive appearance modifying surgery should be denied civil rights”, yes, I agree that’s policing and I disapprove of that policing.
If I say that “Rodrigo Alves post-surgery looks like a poorly designed store window mannequin” that is an expression of aesthetic opinion. It is not policing.
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OK, with appropriate acknowledgement of the dodgy source (and thank you for enduring that particular cess) that’s indeed pretty outrageous. I generally defer to and support my darker-skinned family and friends’ opinion in such matters, but in the absence of POC I’d react quite negatively to that. You have to wonder if this human Ken doll would have been quite so ill-spoken before Brexit/Trump.
Good point and fair enough.
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The Glitch that stole Holiday season.
To be fair to them, that was the only place I found that actually provided any information about what exactly was said beyond what was in the BBC’s report.
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We agree! 
My objection—and specifically what I am calling “policing”—is to the ‘this person is mentally ill because they employ surgeries I am uncomfortable with’ messages.
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You meant Vegas, no?
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But he’s definitely looking a bit less “angular” since Bake-Off. Can’t think why.
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OK by me. Thanks for clarifying.
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Vega is the star from which an extraterrestrial signal is received in Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel Contact and '97 film adaptation. The names are unrelated homonyms. Vega comes from the word for falling in Arabic. Las Vegas is Spanish for the Meadows.
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Yeah, I know. It was a rather feeble joke, wasn’t it.
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No worries. I just realized it was a slightly obscure reference.
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Well at least nobody succumbed to the urge to reply: “Aliens? From Suzanne? Huh?” 
Don’t think I know that one. You win the obscure references contest. 
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Sorry, didn’t thnk it that obscure. I guess being of a certain age and exposed to certain cultural phenomena makes all the difference.
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Oh, I thought you were making a movie reference. I’m a huge Suzanne Vega fan.
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