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‘Eurovision straitjacket’ joke angers mental health campaigners
Show accused of adding to stigma of mental illness after gimmick in which presenter said ‘crazy is the new black’
Charities have accused the Eurovision song contest of fuelling the stigma surrounding mental illness by featuring jokes about mental health during the live broadcast.
Saturday’s programme, which was expected to be watched by more than 200 million people, featured a segment, intended to be light-hearted, in which a line of models showed off Eurovision “memorabilia”.
After highlighting conventional items such as a baseball cap as she moved down the line, the Swedish co-presenter Petra Mede said: “If you’re a really crazy fan I strongly recommend the Eurovision straitjacket.” A man wearing a Eurovision-branded straitjacket then came into view, modelling the item by turning around as Mede observed: “You know what they say – crazy is the new black.”
There was some laughter and applause from the audience. But Time to Change, a partly government-funded campaign, run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, to tackle the stigma of mental illness said the jokes were inappropriate and could have harmful consequences.
Kate Nightingale, the campaign’s head of communications, said: “It’s disappointing that mental health problems, which affect one in four of us in serious and sometimes devastating ways, are being used as part of a Eurovision gimmick.
Why is there a man wearing a straitjacket and why is this woman saying "crazy is the new black" #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/z7yhBRZ5kX
— Tahira Mirza (@tahiramirza1) May 14, 2016
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