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A junior version of Big Brother, which featured sex between two of the 18-year-old housemates during recording, is due to go out in a Channel 4 education slot with the backing of the Learning and Skills Council.
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When it is screened early in the new year, the show will not duck the fact that intercourse occurred during the week that contestants were in the Big Brother house, a Channel 4 spokeswoman said. "It's relevant to how a group of 18-year-olds live and to what's important to them," she said.
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They spent a week in the Big Brother house. Unlike the original, in which the viewers vote each week for one housemate to be expelled, Teen Big Brother allowed the participants to vote for two to leave in the middle of the week.
At the end, the remaining six decided who should be the winner. He or she won "the vocational trip of a lifetime", the spokeswoman explained. For instance, if the winner was interested in becoming a chef, they would be taken abroad to visit some first-rate catering training institutions, she said.
During the week, the housemates were set tasks by Big Brother that were designed to improve their employability and key skills. The tasks would also demand a strong element of teamworking.
During production it was realised that the cameras had captured something that was not part of these tasks. "There was a sexual incident between two of the people in the house," the spokeswoman said.
This will not be screened, she stressed. But references to it by the other housemates will not be cut out.
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Though no screening dates have been finally decided, it is expected that the show will go out in half-hour instalments as part of Channel 4's educational output, 4Learning, possibly in January.
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