'Big Brother' contestants in Cologne were told about the pandemic via a video shown on live TV on Tuesday evening.
After the video announcement, contestants were allowed to ask questions of the show's resident doctor and received messages from their families. Relatives joked that they may be in the safest place in Germany and requested they bring toilet paper home with them.
The move was made after "consultation with relatives," according to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Normally housemates are only given information about the outside world if a close relative or friend dies, but after criticism on social media the broadcaster SAT.1 updated its rules. "Big Brother" evictions usually take place with an audience outside the house, and this was also a source of confusion for contestants in the Canadian version, who wondered why they couldn't hear a crowd outside during the show.
The "Big Brother" contestants aren't the only people to have been isolated from the news. Toms Shoes andspent a week on a silent meditation retreat in Baja California Sur in Mexico and posted on Instagram that he had "re-entered a very different world," on Tuesday. "My prayers are with all of those infected and the many more who are living with such deep fear," he added.
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