Big Brother professor quits after housemates' brawl

The Big Brother household was continuing to get back to normal today, following the spectacular bust-up that has forced one of the show’s backroom staff to quit.

Criminologist Professor David Wilson warned that the reintroduction of dippy Emma and Michelle back into the house would cause “conflict”, but they were let back in to disastrous results.

“I realised that advice hadn’t been listened to, it was at that point I thought I should go,” he told Channel 4 News last night.

The housemates had believed the two women had been evicted last week, but they were secretly watching and listening to all the goings-on from a nearby bedsit.

A few hours after the girls rejoined a drunken brawl erupted on Thursday and security men were forced to enter the house and intervene.

A police investigation is now under way and Prof Wilson, employed as a consultant by the programme, told Channel 4 News that he could not be associated with the show.

“I was simply not prepared to lend my credibility to what was happening,” he said.

Last night’s Big Brother eviction was cancelled following Thursday’s violence.

Bosses wanted to calm the atmosphere in the house and believed an eviction would unsettle the housemates even further.

The eviction has been postponed until next Friday, when the same two housemates will be put to the viewer vote.

A Big Brother spokeswoman said: “We want to let the housemates continue to work through their differences rather than be faced with an eviction.”

Producers were planning to call Victor to the bedsit last night for a private meeting with Emma – who has been locked away since the trouble flared – to settle their differences.

The two housemates were involved in the furious row and threatened to kill each other and had to be pulled apart, but it was not known if they had met.