‘Big Brother’ Fans Call Out Contestant Luke Valentine After He Says N-Word on Live Feed

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Big Brother season 25 contestant Luke Valentine is catching heat from fans after he dropped the N-word during a recent live feed.Valentine, 30, let the word slip during a conversation with fellow houseguests Cory Wurtenberger, Hisam Goueli and Jared Fields on Wednesday, August 9. “We’re in the f—king G’s room, n–ga!” he said in a clip of the moment shared via TikTok, after which he covered his mouth with his hand and corrected himself by saying “dude.”Valentine’s language prompted surprised stares from Wurtenberger, 21, and Goueli, 45.

He proceeded to apologize to the group and directly to Fields, who is Black. “It wasn’t what you thought I was [going to say.] I was gonna call him a narwhale [sic],” Valentine told Fields, who said he didn’t care about his use of the word.Later on in the live feed, Valentine and Fields poked fun at their castmates’ strong reactions to the comment. “I should have made you feel uncomfortable real quick, like, ‘Whoa, bro.

What you just say?’” Fields joked before adding, “I don’t give a f—k.”Some fans of the CBS reality series, however, did not take as kindly to Valentine’s language. “I feel so embarrassed for him, like he really needs to get up and just leave,” one person wrote via X (formerly known as Twitter) on Wednesday, while another stated, “And — as per usual on this show — nobody called him out!!!”Tagging the show’s official X account, another user tweeted on Wednesday, “Sooooooooo what are we gonna do about this??????”CBS and the show’s producers addressed the incident in a statement to Us Weekly on Wednesday: “Luke violated the Big Brother code of conduct and there is zero tolerance in the house for using a racial slur.