Nomination Night Audience Members Attempt To Give Emma The Heads Up About Her Family “Situation”

We’ve all been keeping up with the on-going Emma From Big Brother’s Dad Died And No One Has Told Her Because It Was His Death Bed Wish The ‘Experience’ Not Be Spoiled situation, right? The show’s producers are throwing their hands up in the air claiming they’re just following the family’s wishes, her brother wrote an open letter to the public explaining the perspective of Emma’s kin, people are still pretty outraged, etc etc etc x a zillion?

Well, believe it or not – more has happened.

The producers of Big Brother narrowly avoided a public relations disaster on Monday night when a member of the live audience held up a sign in an attempt to inform housemate Emma Cornell that her father had passed away.

The show’s co-executive producer Kris Noble yesterday told the Courier-Mail a man and his daughter were removed from the set after holding up a sign that read, “Emma, Your Dad Is Dead” during the nominations show.

“It was appalling,” Noble said.

“But those people were thrown out and we got their names, because obviously we don’t ever want people like that at the show again.”

It is understood the pair were hoping Emma might catch a glimpse of the sign during one of the many live crosses between host Gretel Killeen and the housemates during the program.

The sign was not seen by any housemates and the offenders had their names recorded.

But the ghoulish stunt has reignited questions about how producers, along with Cornell’s family, plan to break the news of Raymond Cornell’s death to his daughter upon her eviction.

The first thing that jumped out at us was the fact a man and his daughter teamed up for this case of nominations night mischief. We haven’t been so moved by such an example of parent-child bonding since Defamer Australia’s daddy joined his favourite offspring for a midnight egging of Angela Bishop’s digs.

Then we began to mentally congratulate the pair who, clearly believing it was wrong and cruel for Emma to have no knowledge of her father’s death, decided the best way for her to find out the terrible news was not on the eviction stage, which would be simply insensitive!

No, much better to read it on a poorly painted cardboard sign covered in glitter, wedged between the “THOMUS UR HOTT!!” banner being gaily waved about by a thirteen year old girl, and the “DA INTERWEBZ MIS U JAMIE! LOL CU BAK IN DA WARHAMMER FORUMZ SOON D00D!” held semi-proudly by a pimply faced computer programmer in a Lord Of The Rings t-shirt who, being Gold Coast based, was nominated by the rest of the chatroom to represent Jamie’s peeps in the Monday night audience.