Christina Ferreira has responded to the controversial gesture of former Big Brother contestant, Usman Idris After criticism and calls for his immediate expulsion from the “reality show.”

At the ceremony last Sunday, the eighth of this month, Othman ended up being expelled by audience votes, but Christina did not want to let the controversy go unnoticed.

“You will understand, because this week has been very incendiary on the networks, that gesture on your part [de cortar o pescoço] I tried to ask you a moment ago what you meant by that, there were several explanations, and there were many people who condemned you for this gesture,” the announcer began to say.

“I think, and this is just my opinion, I understand what you wanted to explain to me a moment ago, any of us have already done it, in the competing programs there are people who have already done it, even in the tests they have already passed. So, People should not be fired or canceled for a gesture that has no other intention. Clearly, Othman was not there to say he was going to kill anyone, nor was he inciting anyone to violence.“, highlighted Cristina Ferreira.

The former Big Brother contestant justified himself by saying that the gesture was nothing more than a joke. He defended himself, saying, “From a distance, it was a joke. We were joking.”

Before Osman was fired by the public, the tone of criticism directed at TVI and Cristina Ferreira increased. Human behavior specialist Susana Ariel He was one of the people who called for the then-rival to be fired, advising Cristina Ferreira to “do a ‘diary’ or ‘extra private’ with Paige to evict Usman from his house and […] “Making it clear to the entire population that any kind of call for violence is unacceptable.”