THE “Big Brother 2” contestant who was booted off the show for holding a butcher knife to the throat of one of the female contestants says anyone who thinks it was an act of violence is an “idiot.”
The show’s producers expelled Justin Sebik from the house early Wednesday morning, but he says his knife-wielding antics were just a joke.
“If there’s anyone that could perceive that as an act of violence or as a threat, then you’re an idiot,” Sebik told “Big Brother 2” host Julie Chen in an interview taped shortly after he was tossed. “Then I don’t know what the hell you’re watching, and I don’t know what kind of glasses you’re looking through.”
Chen asked, “Can you see how someone from the outside would be worried about your state of mind as you’re holding a knife to someone’s throat, asking, ‘Would you be mad at me if I killed you?'”
“I cannot,” Sebik said.
The knife incident with Krista Stegall, a 28-year-old divorced mother and waitress from Opelousas, La., was the final straw for Sebik, who was already in hot water with the show’s producers for his earlier bizarre behavior.
Around 2 a.m., Wednesday, after a night of boozing, 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.
Moments later, he was summoned to talk with producers and later a psychologist.
By 4 a.m., producers told him that he had been expelled.
Last night, “Big Brother 2” producers opted not to air the knife-incident video, although the scene had been broadcast over the Internet live.
Instead, they showed Sebik jokingly taking a swing at Stegall’s head with a floor sweeper seconds before he pulled the knife. Chen then described what had happened with the butcher knife.
“Big Brother 2” executive producer Arnold Shapiro said he was against making a big deal about Sebik’s expulsion by broadcasting the knife incident during last night’s episode.
“My personal wish is that we not show [the knife video] anymore,” he told The Post. He said that’s “because I don’t want to destroy his future.”
Meanwhile, Sheryl Braxon, 43, became the first contestant voted out. Once she left, the twice-divorced mother of two from Ponte Verda, Fla., told Chen she thought Sebik was a “sweet, kind” person, but “was a follower who was egged on.”