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Big Brother's brawl probed.


Byline: By Sara Wallis

The brawl that tore the Big Brother house apart when Michelle and Emma returned from the bedsit bedsit or bedsitter
Noun

a furnished sitting room with a bed

Noun 1. bedsit - a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
bedsitter, bedsitting room
 is being investigated by police.

Security guards were called in to break up the fighting at the reality TV show house in the early hours of yesterday.

Channel 4 cut the live TV feed from 2-3am as the situation spiralled out of control, and now several of the warring housemates face possible criminal charges.

Michelle Bass Michelle Bass (born February 2, 1981 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) is a British Glamour model and Television personality turned Singer and Columnist.

She first came to fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the UK reality television show Big Brother.
, 23, of Dinnington, Newcastle, had been eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room.  on the housemates with Emma after their fake eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action.  to the bedsit last Friday.

After five days of listening in, Michelle and Emma made their entrance geared up for a confrontation, and within minutes there was tension in the house.

During the most violent scenes arch-enemies Emma and Victor had to be dragged apart by other housemates. Emma, bubbling with rage after overhearing Victor brand her racist and stupid, threw a tray at him as their row exploded. Victor responded by throwing a glass of wine over her.

In another bust-up, bodybuilder Jason threatened Marco with violence.

Just before 3am, another row broke out between Vanessa and Nadia, and Big Brother bosses sent three security guards into the house to break things up.

Police say they are viewing tapes of the fracas and deciding whether to press charges.

In a statement, Channel 4 and production firm Endemol said: "The welfare and safety of the housemates is always our overriding concern, and the production team decided to intervene at a point where they felt the confrontation reached an unacceptable level".
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Publication:Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Date:Jun 18, 2004
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