TV’s “Big Brother 2” producers booted a contestant when things got a little too real on the reality game show – one of the men in the house kissed a female housemate while holding a carving knife to her throat.
Justin Sebik, a 26-year-old Bayonne, N.J., bartender was tossed from the CBS show after the confrontation early yesterday with Krista Stegall, a 28-year old divorced mother and waitress from Opelousas, La.
“Justin has a sense of humor that at times can be intimidating,” executive producer Arnold Shapiro told The Post.
“We’ve talked to him in the past and told him he could use any strategy he wanted in the house as long as ‘you don’t violate our rules.'”
Shapiro said that one of show’s biggest rules “is that you cannot be physically violent and you cannot be physically intimidating or threatening to anybody.”
It started around 2 a.m. yesterday, after a night of boozing, when Sebik started kissing Stegall in the kitchen.
After asking her if she would still love him if “I killed you,” he pulled a carving knife out of a drawer and held it to her throat. She laughed and they continued to kiss.
About 4 a.m., “Big Brother 2” producers expelled Sebik from the house after he met with the staff psychiatrist.
The incident was shown live on the show’s round-the-clock Internet site. The show is broadcast on TV at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
CBS officials said some of what took place in the house will air on tonight’s TV edition, but it’s unclear if the knife-play will be seen.
“We haven’t made that decision yet,” Shapiro said. It was the second time in less than a week that Sebik got into hot water for his behavior.
On Sunday, Sebik almost came to blows with another housemate over a stolen pillow.