Australian “Big Brother” Criticized For Withholding News of Contestant’s Father’s Death

The Australian producers of the “Big Brother” spinoff are taking heat for not informing one of the contestants, Emma Cornell, that her father has died from cancer. Read a BBC story about the criticism here. As part of the reality series, she is living in a house with other contestants and isolated from outside information. But her family says that all members discussed the possibility that Raymond Cornell might die during the course of the series. Here is a link to her brother’s letter explaining their position.