The return of “Big Brother” to Argentine television was a success. The return of the reality show to the Telefe screen showed that the format is still valid and generating appeal among viewers. But that average of 20 rating points that the program achieved was not only beneficial for the channel, but also for the participants. Since the first edition, “Big Brother” became a factory for media people who find the possibility of making a name for themselves in the media thanks to the exposure that the program provides.
But behind this ladder to fame, which not all contestants manage to climb, lies a serious problem regarding the health of the “little brothers” themselves. The constant exposure of their privacy at home, the confinement, the sudden fame at the end of the program and the pressure to stay in the environment form an explosive cocktail that attacks the psyche of those who participate in the reality show.
Tomás Holder, Constanza Romero and Maximiliano Giudici are the contestants of the last edition who are already suffering the damage that this situation can cause and that has already affected participants in previous editions, in Argentina and also in the rest of the world.
Burden. When Marcos Ginocchio turned off the light and left the house as the winner of the reality show, another challenge began for everyone who had been part of the program. Becoming celebrities and required by channels for interviews, clubs for presences and brands for exchanges, the “little brothers” savored the fame and euphoria around them. But while some take the experience of confinement added to their sudden fame more calmly, for others it becomes difficult to continue.
The first to set off the alarms was “Coty” Romero. The woman from Corrientes became one of the public’s favorites and was even one of the first confirmed for the “Bailando” hosted by Marcelo Tinelli. But while her media career prospered, the reality show experience took its toll on her. “She changed my mind a lot about everything and made it very complicated for me. I became my own enemy. I had 40 nice comments and one ugly one and I focused on the ugly one,” she revealed in relation to the fame that the reality show and the hate on social networks left her with. However, the situation escalated: “I cut myself, I wouldn’t say ‘suicide attempt’ but I cut myself to feel relief. The wounds are still healing. “I’m bad, I want to be me again and get my shine back,” she confessed in an interview.
Tomás Holder, for his part, acknowledged that sudden fame took him to a “very dark place” from which he was able to get out. But now, also in “Bailando”, he suffers from excessive exposure. Before one of his dances, he had to leave the studio in the middle of a panic attack. He left the studio to breathe and was then assisted by an ambulance to where Tinelli approached to console him. He was distraught and couldn’t stop crying. The panic attack is something that has affected several participants of the reality show in previous editions and the episode that Holder suffered is similar to the one that featured Pablo Heredia, from the second edition of the cycle, who had also had attacks inside the house. , which earned him the nickname “the crazy guy from Big Brother.”
The emotional crisis that the “little brothers” face must be contained in time or the risks are many. Maximiliano Giudici was admitted to the Ramos Mejía Hospital on Friday, September 22, as a victim of a Clonazepam overdose. According to him, he swallowed the entire blister of pills in a suicide attempt. “Most of the kids were prepared when they came in. I went out and felt very afraid. On top of that, I had no one to guide me and I started to get desperate. Later, that desperation turned into frustration,” he detailed about his condition.
Something similar went through the remembered participant of the first episode of “Big Brother”, Tamara Paganini, who stated that in her darkest moment she tried to jump onto the train tracks.
The participants with less psychological capacity thus find in their passage through the house a show that ends up enhancing their problems. The cocktail of pressure, exposure and fame turns against him and ends up exploding. Each new edition of the reality show leaves along the way stories of participants who suffer the consequences and who, in addition, affirm that they did not receive any type of containment.
