A South Africa-based satellite channel says it will immediately evict a participant from its “Big Brother” reality show after he hit a female housemate.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South Africa-based satellite channel says it will immediately evict a participant from its "Big Brother" reality show after he hit a female housemate. M-Net spokeswoman Lani Lombard says Hannington Kuteesa breached the show’s rules by assaulting contestant Lerato Sengadi on Tuesday. Rights groups have called for his dismissal over the assault. The show confines 14 people to a camera-rigged house in Johannesburg for 91 days. Viewers vote to evict contestants one by one. British and U.S. versions of the reality show launched imitations worldwide, and some participants have become celebrities. Lombard says Kuteesa will be offered support and treatment after he leaves. She says Sengadi will remain but she will be admonished for participating in the scuffle. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. Photo Caption: In this framegrab from the Big Brother reality show shows an altercation between Uganda’s Hannington Kuteesa, right, and South Africa’s Lerato Sengadi, left, this week. The South African pay channel says it will evict Kuteesa for assaulting female fellow star Sengadi on air. (AP Photo/M-net’s Big Brother)
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