Reality TV Kills 6

September 20th, 2005 · No Comments

Reality TV is farking evil. This is nothing in comparison to smoking or car accidents but TV is stupid entertainment.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4263428.stm

In February, 23-year-old Najai Turpin, a young boxer who was taking part in The Contender, shot himself.

In July, Carina Stephenson hanged herself after filming The Colony with her family in the Australian outback. Her mother has since blamed her death on suicide websites.

Sinisa Savija, a contestant on Expedition Robinson, a Swedish show that was the prototype for Survivor, stepped in front of a train after becoming the first person voted off the contest in 1997.

In 2002, Ralf Panitz was convicted of beating his ex-wife to death hours after they appeared on an episode of the Jerry Springer show.

And in 1995, a guest on The Jenny Jones Show murdered another who revealed his homosexual “secret crush” on TV.

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