Rewatch Big Brother 2008 YouTube stream (Starts 7am 25 Oct)

[kamui]

Travis took it all on the chin. The fact the constant taunting and ridiculing went on for as long as it did, and BB never called it out, is embarrassing.

Not sure if it has already been shown but Nobbi got told off after the Alice incident, when one of the deputy voices would recount all these events, mentioned how bullying is not allowed and then weirdly went to "you were very close to crossing it again."

Which has been such a weird talk.. on the one hand trying to be very stern with Nobbi but at the same time still downplaying it by just telling him to stop it and not acknowledging that he didn’t just get close to crossing the line but actually having crossed it a long time before the Alice incident.

 

[the Theorist]

Found a couple articles for more context, which further proves how much the incident was downplayed during the Daily and live shows at the time.

Allegedly it wasn’t shampoo but a cleaning product that they sprayed at him, which “burnt all the layers off” his eyeball.

All Fun and Games: Bullying and assault in the Big Brother house

Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden A…

hoydenabouttown.com

In 2008, audiences thought Travis Keyser was 'bullied' on Big Brother. This is his life now.

His now-wife Carisa didn’t even catch a glimpse of him when he was on TV back in 2008.

www.mamamia.com.au

It’s clear the show couldn’t afford any serious controversies at the time, given everything else that had led to this season, and the sad truth is not enough people were watching to notice or even care enough for it to be a bigger deal. But not reprimanding the boys - and continuously dismissing it as a “boys being boys” prank - was pretty callous.

 

[timmy]

Allegedly it wasn’t shampoo but a cleaning product that they sprayed at him

It's definitely a spray bottle in the screen grab on one of the articles. He should have gone (or better still been called) to the DR and got medical care immediately when the incident occurred. Big dereliction of duty by whoever was on duty at the time.

 

[Will McDougle]

We're up to the Alice/Travis/Nobbi drama in the spa at the moment.

 

[Will McDougle]

More of Brigette's reactions hahah:

 

[T.R.]

Brigitte was Lady Gaga before most of us knew who Lady Gaga was.

 

[timmy]

We're up to the Alice/Travis/Nobbi drama in the spa at the moment.

I'd forgotten what a jerk Nobbi was.

Alice was very kind to Travis though. Despite telling him he annoyed her, she looked out for him and reassured him. That was good.