Many people can’t get enough news about the terrorist attacks in the U-S, but a few are getting absolutely none – those locked up in ``Big Brother’’ houses.
Producers of versions of the reality-TV show running in Belgium, Denmark and South Africa have decided to stick to their rule forbidding participants from learning about anything outside the house.
Only the Netherlands, where the show originated, made an exception for the 18 contestants in the Dutch house.
In Belgium, a psychologist for the ``Big Brother’’ producers advised against letting the 12 people in the house know.
She claims showing them the images ``immediately creates a panic situation because they won’t know how things will evolve.’’
She says producers checked with contestants’ families to make sure no one inside the house had ties to victims of the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
As contestants are voted off the show, which began September 3rd in Belgium and runs until mid-December, they will be informed about the attacks by a psychologist.
However, the remaining three contestants in the American Big Brother house WERE informed after some debate among producers because one of the contestants had a relative in the Towers
This required a debate? Morals are one thing and ratings are everything I suppose.
Unbelievable isn’t it? For the sake of a TV show, these people don’t get to witness and be involved in the most important thing ever to happen in their lifetimes. Just unbelievable.
I’m surprised at the psychologists. Finding out months afterward would do more harm, I would think. When the battles start, and I think that’s pretty much a given, I wonder if they plan to tell them that?