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Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Article in the Sacremento Bee

http://www.sacramento.com/portal/tv/story/3509297p-4535458c.html

"But of all the improbable shows somehow making TV lineups, "Big Brother" has to be the lamest...

Last season, a lunkhead named Justin Sebik held a kitchen knife to the neck of a woman and asked if she would get mad if he killed her. While they were kissing. Nice show.

The woman, Krista Stegall, later told CBS news reader Julie Chen -- who, by the way, seems bent on destroying her career by (a) appearing as the interviewer on "Big Brother" and (b) being awful at it -- that she had no memory of the incident because she and Sebik were just joking around.

But this June, Stegall sued CBS and the producers, seeking unspecified damages. She charged that Sebik shouldn't have been on the show in the first place and that CBS didn't give her sufficient psychological counseling (insert your joke here).

So this time around, everyone got a better background check and a battery of interviews and tests -- including that pesky IQ exam, producer Arnold Shapiro said in a recent conference call.

He also promised that his pack of contestants are "like hungry dogs just waiting to be released from their cages" because they want to win so badly."