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This guy is an Elite member, I think he over did it on the Fina cause he is crazy, he held a knife to a girls throat.
'Big Brother' Contestant Kicked Off Show
July 11, 2001 6:54 pm EST
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A contestant on the CBS reality series "Big Brother 2" was kicked off the show on Wednesday after he put a knife to the neck of a woman "house guest" he was kissing and said "I'm going to slash your throat," network officials said.
The contestant, known only to viewers as Justin, the muscular 26-year-old bartender and office worker from Bayonne, New Jersey, was expelled a short time after the 12:30 a.m. PDT incident involving fellow player Krista, 28, a divorced mother and waitress from Louisiana, with whom he had been getting cozy.
The two contestants had been "partying" earlier that night and appeared to have been under the influence of alcohol during their encounter, a network source said. No one was hurt.
The incident, which occurred after hours, did not air on television but presumably was seen by anyone watching live, round-the-clock video footage from inside the house shown on the show's Web site, (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother/) network officials said.
CBS officials said Justin, who had emerged as the foul-mouthed tough guy on the show, was previously warned about unruly behavior after stealing the pillow of another house guest during Tuesday night's episode.
"To ensure the safety of all house guests, intimidation, violence and even the threat of violence will not be tolerated," CBS said in a statement announcing his expulsion.
Executive Producer Arnold Shapiro said in the statement that Justin had "crossed the line of tolerable and acceptable behavior and was a blatant violation of the house rules we established. As much as we like Justin, we really had no choice but to expel him from the house."
The CBS version of the wildly popular European-born reality show isolates 12 strangers together in a specially built house wired with 38 cameras and 62 microphones that monitor their every move over the course of nearly three months.
In advance of the second edition of the show that first aired on CBS last summer, producers have said they hoped to spice up the series with more interesting interactions among the contestants.
According to a CBS account taken from a transcript the encounter between Justin and Krista, the two were intermittently kissing and talking in the kitchen of the house when Justin picked up a large knife and put it to her throat and said, "Wait, hang on. I'm going to slash your throat. Would you get mad if I killed you?"
Without appearing to react, Krista replied, "No, but I want some water." Moments later, he repeated the question, "No, seriously, would you get mad if I killed you?"
At that point, the producers spoke up over an intercom, instructing Justin to leave the kitchen and speak with a staff psychologist in the "diary room," a chamber in the house where contestants occasionally communicate with producers on camera, a CBS source said.
CBS officials said producers never physically intervened during the knife incident.
The network said Justin's removal would not affect the series' normal "eviction" process, in which contestants vote one person off the show every week, with the last person remaining winning $500,000.
"Big Brother 2" is a somewhat revamped version of the reality show that produced middling ratings last summer. The first episode of the new show, which debuted July 5, attracted 8.2 million viewers, placing it roughly in the middle of the ratings pack for the night.
CBS is a unit of Viacom Inc .
'Big Brother' Contestant Kicked Off Show
July 11, 2001 6:54 pm EST
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A contestant on the CBS reality series "Big Brother 2" was kicked off the show on Wednesday after he put a knife to the neck of a woman "house guest" he was kissing and said "I'm going to slash your throat," network officials said.
The contestant, known only to viewers as Justin, the muscular 26-year-old bartender and office worker from Bayonne, New Jersey, was expelled a short time after the 12:30 a.m. PDT incident involving fellow player Krista, 28, a divorced mother and waitress from Louisiana, with whom he had been getting cozy.
The two contestants had been "partying" earlier that night and appeared to have been under the influence of alcohol during their encounter, a network source said. No one was hurt.
The incident, which occurred after hours, did not air on television but presumably was seen by anyone watching live, round-the-clock video footage from inside the house shown on the show's Web site, (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother/) network officials said.
CBS officials said Justin, who had emerged as the foul-mouthed tough guy on the show, was previously warned about unruly behavior after stealing the pillow of another house guest during Tuesday night's episode.
"To ensure the safety of all house guests, intimidation, violence and even the threat of violence will not be tolerated," CBS said in a statement announcing his expulsion.
Executive Producer Arnold Shapiro said in the statement that Justin had "crossed the line of tolerable and acceptable behavior and was a blatant violation of the house rules we established. As much as we like Justin, we really had no choice but to expel him from the house."
The CBS version of the wildly popular European-born reality show isolates 12 strangers together in a specially built house wired with 38 cameras and 62 microphones that monitor their every move over the course of nearly three months.
In advance of the second edition of the show that first aired on CBS last summer, producers have said they hoped to spice up the series with more interesting interactions among the contestants.
According to a CBS account taken from a transcript the encounter between Justin and Krista, the two were intermittently kissing and talking in the kitchen of the house when Justin picked up a large knife and put it to her throat and said, "Wait, hang on. I'm going to slash your throat. Would you get mad if I killed you?"
Without appearing to react, Krista replied, "No, but I want some water." Moments later, he repeated the question, "No, seriously, would you get mad if I killed you?"
At that point, the producers spoke up over an intercom, instructing Justin to leave the kitchen and speak with a staff psychologist in the "diary room," a chamber in the house where contestants occasionally communicate with producers on camera, a CBS source said.
CBS officials said producers never physically intervened during the knife incident.
The network said Justin's removal would not affect the series' normal "eviction" process, in which contestants vote one person off the show every week, with the last person remaining winning $500,000.
"Big Brother 2" is a somewhat revamped version of the reality show that produced middling ratings last summer. The first episode of the new show, which debuted July 5, attracted 8.2 million viewers, placing it roughly in the middle of the ratings pack for the night.
CBS is a unit of Viacom Inc .