Big Brother contestant Sree Dasari slashes his wrists.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

Channel 4 and Endemol, the producers of Big Brother , are facing renewed questions about contestants' mental health after a recently evicted participant was taken to hospital after apparently self-harming while watching the programme.

Sree Dasari , 25, was admitted to hospital in the early hours of Friday after cutting his wrists in his room at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is an overseas student. Reports suggested he had become upset while watching the programme from which he was evicted on 3 July, the fourth contestant to be voted out of the current series. He was treated for minor lacerations at the QEII hospital in Welwyn …