This is form the website www.bbtk.co.uk

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities are investigating plans by the producers of the "Big Brother" reality television show to include a pregnant contestant who will give birth on the show.

Talpa, the new television station launched earlier this month by the billionaire creator of Big Brother John de Mol, will broadcast a new series from Sunday in which a contestant is due to give birth six weeks into the show.

A spokeswoman for the social affairs and labour ministry confirmed a report in De Telegraaf daily on Saturday that inspectors were examining a request by Big Brother producers for the newborn baby to be allowed to appear on the programme.

The Netherlands has strict rules governing young children acting on television, in films or on the stage.

The ruling Christian Democrats have condemned the idea of a birth on the live show, but the 27-year-old pregnant contestant identified only as Tanja defended the idea.

"I think that my child will be proud of it later," she told De Telegraaf.

The show's director Hummie van der Tonnekreek said Tanja would be well looked after in the Big Brother house, where a group of 12 strangers are locked in together and gradually voted out by the audience.

"She will get the maximum attention and care," Van der Tonnekreek said.

Versions of the show first aired in the Netherlands in 1999 have since been produced in dozens of countries worldwide.


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A woman on Holland's Big Brother will not be giving birth on television, authorities have decided.

Housemate Tanja, 27, walked into the house seven months pregnant and permission was sought for the birth to be broadcast, the show's producers arguing: "It's not a show about birth, but about people in a social process."

However, the BBC reports that the Social Affairs ministry has ruled that, should Tanja still be in the house when the event occurs, the birth may not be broadcast live. Restrictions have also been placed on the amount of coverage that the baby can receive.

A statement read: "The mother of the child that stays in the Big Brother house will have free access to the baby's room. The same goes for a caregiver who is not part of the show, presumably one of the (child's) grandmothers."

The child will reside in its own room free of cameras and must only be shown on screen once a day for eight days.