Media
reports have said that the Australian
court has fined the British commercial
broadcaster ITV for killing a rat
in the reality show.
Hearing the complaint from Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(RSPCA) ITV was fined 3,000 Australian
dollars ($2,580) and ordered to pay
court costs of 2,500 Australian dollars.
Reacting to this the television broadcaster
has said that they doesn’t know
killing a rat is an offense.
"The production was unaware that
killing a rat could be an offense,
criminal or otherwise, in New South
Wales and accepts that further inquiries
should have been made," an ITV
spokesman was quoted as saying.
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