JUST hours before “Big Brother 2” producers booted out Justin Sebik for holding a butcher knife to the throat of a female contestant, another housemate had threatened to leave the show because of the knife-wielder’s antics.
Hardy Hill, 31, a bouncer from Miami, packed his bags and was ready to quit on Wednesday if “Big Brother 2” producers didn’t yank Sebik from the house, according to people who monitor the live Internet feed that originates from the house 24 hours a day .
Twice before, Hill had stopped Sebik from breaking empty wine bottles and later told some of his housemates that he thought Sebik would eventually hurt or kill someone in the house.
Fans who have been monitoring the show since it began last week say that shortly before Sebik, 26, of Bayonne, N.J., learned that producers were considering yanking him out of the house early Wednesday morning, he threw chairs, smashed a chess set and flung a bowl of mints to the floor in a fit of rage. A psychologist was summoned to the house – at Sebik’s request.
Earlier, while in the backyard, he urinated on one of the house’s windows and tried to smash empty wine bottles and fling them over the wall onto the CBS studio, sources close to the show said.
On Sunday, Sebik almost exchanged blows with another housemate, Kent Blackwelder, 46, over a stolen pillow and producers warned Sebik that “physical intimidation would not be tolerated.”
“Just to make sure he understood it, we asked him to repeat it back to us,” “Big Brother 2” executive producer Arnold Shapiro told The Post.
But the knife incident with Krista Stegall, a 28-year old divorced mother and waitress from Opelousas, La., was the final straw.
Around 2 a.m. Sebik started kissing Stegall in the kitchen. After asking her if she would still love him if “I killed you,” he pulled a butcher knife out of a drawer and held it to her throat. She laughed and they continued to kiss.
About five minutes later, the producers called Sebik into another room to talk to him. As he headed into the part of the house called the Diary Room, he said to Stegall, “we’ve got problems. I think it might have been that knife to your neck.”
At about 4 a.m. “Big Brother 2” producers told Sebik that he had been expelled from the house and was sent to a Los Angeles hotel.