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Germany's year-long Big Brother experiment looks set to be a flop just two weeks after its launch despite on-screen sex and a strip show.

The show lost one million viewers in a week, bringing the audience down from 2.3 million to just 1.3 million viewers.

On the second night of airing, one contestant, Sandra, performed a sexy striptease for flatmates she barely knew.

And she has already ended up having sex with another contestant, Sascha. They even discussed sleeping together without contraceptive protection, risking Big Brother's first ever baby.

But the early onslaught of sleaze and sex seems to have put audiences in Germany off rather than pull them in.

Nine contestants from all levels of German society are battling it out for the entire year to win one million euros, the equivalent of £690,000.

The reality TV show is broadcast every evening seven days a week by private TV channel RTL II.

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