I'm a Big Brother fan. One of the rules of that show is that the house guests are shut off from the outside world. No phones, no internet, no magazines -- nothing. Yesterday, one of the contestants' grandfather passed away. His sister tweeted that their grandfather didn't want this contestant to be told so he would stay and play the game. Personally, I don't think this is their decision to make. I think it should be this contestant's choice to either stay and play or go home and pay his last respects to his grandfather. There is precedent on this show for such a thing happening. On BB2, a woman's cousin went missing during 9/11 and she chose to stay because it was so close to the end of the season.

The whole thing has made me wonder what I would do in a similar situation. I definitely think I would want to know, and I would be livid with my family if they made such a decision for me.

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