[hugorand]

We've learned Heidi was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a gastric ulcer, after being held with hubby Spencer Pratt in a dark room for a day and a night with only water, rice and beans. It was designed as punishment because they left the show. One cast member described their treatment this way -- "It's the same as Guantanamo Bay."

And get this ... a cast member tells us NBC execs tried to convince Heidi to stay on the set rather than take an ambulance to a hospital for treatment. She has now left the hospital and is on meds.

We're told some of the cast members want to quit, but their passports have been taken away and they are under guard.

Paul Telegdy, NBC's Exec VP of Alternative Programming, told Ryan Seacrest about holding Heidi and Spencer in isolation as punishment, adding, "...They are now going to be examined, and their value system utterly deconstructed ...These people really are going to bare their souls."

We're told Spencer has fired his lawyer (who wanted him to stay on the show) and is now planning to sue NBC over the show.

[Blogger]

Good grief!

[Kimmers]

“”It's the same as Guantanamo Bay.”

It is not the same, Guantanamo is housing terrorists that want to kill and blow up stuff.

These are American citizens wanting to be on another stupid reality show and are not terrorists.....if any of this is true, this is horrible.....

[napscoordinator]

No pity here. They both volunteered to go on the show. If they weren’t such media whores, she would not have gotten sick. Sorry I am being Simon Cowell today. lol.

[JoJo Gunn]

Newton Minow was right. Television was a vast wasteland in 1961, and it still is today.

[NinoFan]

1.5 days on a rice, bean, and water diet? That’s considered torture?

[kitkat]

This article is so ridiculous, and so lacking in facts, that I don’t believe any of it.

[exist]

I hate these shows but I tuned in for the 1st episode. I didn’t even know who this Spencer and Heidi were but I was definitely hoping they fell off a cliff or something. I’m not joking.

[PoliticalDookie]

NBC’s position on torture...it’s bad when used for national security but ok for making money.

[Winstons Julia]

I was going to watch until they booked Blagojevich. It went “political” there and looks like it’s going to have a “message”.

[muleskinner]

I happend across the show this morning. Never heard of those two before, but the caption said "Reality Show Star".

So an extremely obscure member of some obscure reality show is now an obscure star on another obscure reality show. Nice gig.

BTW, Spencer Pratt was exceptionally annoying.

[SlidingW]

That episode is on MTV right now.