Tanja has now quit the show.
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Dutch Big Brother mother quits show after jibes
Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:00 PM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A contestant on the Dutch "Big Brother" reality television show who gave birth in the house last week is quitting the program because, fed up with her housemates who accuse her of being a bad mother.
Program makers said Tanja, 27, would leave on Thursday night to be with her baby girl, eager to get away from housemates who joked that she had smoked so much during her pregnancy that the baby would end up breast feeding on tar.
She branded them childish, talkative and manipulative.
"I'm not getting any peace or understanding from the others. I want to enjoy maternity, not feel annoyance," the De Telegraaf newspaper quoted Tanja as saying. "I'll be happy when I am amongst normal people again.
The program's editor said it was a shame she was leaving because she had been "good television".
Versions of Big Brother, where groups of strangers are locked in a house and gradually voted out by the audience, first aired in the Netherlands in 1999 and have since been produced in dozens of countries worldwide.
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