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Lovestruck Big Brother reject Sree Dasari slashes wrists
Last updated at 13:09pm on 29.07.09A lovelorn former Big Brother contestant was rushed to hospital after slashing his wrists.
Sree Dasari, who was evicted earlier this month, is believed to have become distressed while watching the reality TV show.
Cry for help: Sree Dasari
An ambulance was called to his digs at the University of Hertfordshire on Friday morning. There was no suggestion of a suicide bid and hours after he was discharged from hospital he appeared on the spin-off show Big Brother's Big Mouth. During his stay in the house, the 25-year-old business student had become obsessed with Irish housemate Noirin Kelly, 25, who spurned his romantic gestures.
He may have been upset by her new romance with housemate Siavash Sabbaghpour, 23.
Dasari was the fourth housemate to be booted off the show and was booed when he was evicted on 3 July.
Channel 4 arranged for him to be seen by a psychologist over the weekend, but Sree's cry for help will raise new questions about how reality TV show contestants are looked after once they leave a programme.
Reader views (4)
888 you say it was only a matter of time......its been on for ten years now and its only happened once.....
what you have to look at is people like noirin who do this thing to people she is a poor excuse of a huma...shr strung everyone of them on and played them...they are human they have feelings no matter how silly they act.
Noirin should be looked up.......
- Nicole, Scotland
Whilst it is very sad when someone reaches the point where they feel a need to harm themselves, it does pose the question whether the person in question in this case was stable in the first place as he came accross as being odd from the outset. I feel sorry for him but not, I think, for the right reasons. Surely he could see how silly he was making himself look and now to do this over someone he hardly knows makes him seem even more foolish.
- Sceptical, Swansea, West Glamorgan, South Wales.
Perhaps now they will cancel this poor excuse for a programme, how people can watch it, I do not know.
- Melissa, Surrey
What would be more appropriate is if Ofcom took a long hard look at the choosing of contestants in the first place - which as we all know, is to pick the ones which are the best 'tv value' for reality shows - namely the clearly mentally unstable (to varying degrees) or desperate. It was only a matter of time before this sort of thing happened. It might happen in real life but there's not much excuse for exploiting the ratings value for car crash tv. Because people like this are given air time, people somehow think behaviour like this (whether the result of a mental issue or just terrible behaviour amplified on purpose to make themselves look cool) is acceptable.
- 888, London
