Big Brother 10

[Emma Raducanu]

Is there any interesting information regarding this series, which hasn't come from the mouth of an insider or a source or the friend of a source?

It all seems to have been rather muted so far; not that I've been watching much Channel 4 but what happened to their subliminal 'eye flash' during ad breaks? I've only just found out it starts in six days for crying out loud.

After giving up watching last year's show when there was a confrontation about some over cooked chips, I'm yet again naively hoping it'll be worth watching and hoping to make it through the first week.

A lot will depend on how Big Brother chooses to play the housemates; more attention paid to competition and less fanaticism over some dippy blonde who wears sandals on her head would be nice.

Any way, this thread is usually funny enough to follow regardless. Discuss!

[papalaz4444244]

Whatever became of Rachael and her lovely arse.....?

[Backstage With Slowdive]

This year sees the first robot contestant, IG-788.

[Ja'moke]

Whatever became of Rachael and her lovely arse.....?

She had some dignity, won the show, took her money and went back home to Wales with her boyfriend. None of this parading around London nightclubs with no knickers on, trying desperately to be papped in order to cling on to the ever dwindling remnants of fame.

I've always been one of Big Brother's biggest supporters on here, but even I can barely be arsed with the new series.

My good old favourite BBUSA is back in July though. :)

[Viero_Berlotti]

I hear that there might be one of those homosexual people on it this year?

What with Jonathan Ross and the whole MP's spending money scandal, can the Great Britain cope with anymore sleaze?

[Ckris]

If the mean age of contestant was in the 30s instead of being about 18, I think the programme would greatly improve. I know people of all ages are motivated by fame but non more so than teens and 20 somethings, which ultimately makes for terrible viewing.

The problem of course is that a house splits; one group, the fashionable in-crowd who think they're mad for swimming at 12am and taking a dislike to the elders/nutters/outisders/ethnic minorities and the other who find the younger crowd's behaviour alienating and nauseating. I think that would be remedied somewhat by having a generally older crowd while having a couple of early 20 somethings.

I remember the first night one year there were twin girls, who'd seemingly had a lobotomy before going in being completely unable to hold any kind of conversation with a 60 year old from the women's institute.

[Ja'moke]

If the mean age of contestant was in the 30s instead of being about 18, I think the programme would greatly improve. I know people of all ages are motivated by fame but non more so than teens and 20 somethings, which ultimately makes for terrible viewing.

The problem of course is that a house splits; one group, the fashionable in-crowd who think they're mad for swimming at 12am and taking a dislike to the elders/nutters/outisders/ethnic minorities and the other who find the younger crowd's behaviour alienating and nauseating. I think that would be remedied somewhat by having a generally older crowd while having a couple of early 20 somethings.

Well CBB6 had mainly older housemates and it was the lowest rated series ever. Although I enjoyed Terry and Coolio's late night chats about old school hip hop, I don't think it appealed to the wider public.

[turnstyle]

One of the contestants will be called Jade. Apparently they felt it was a 'fitting tribute' to Goody.

I wonder if this new one will be a cunt too.

[Ckris]

As a fitting tribute, she should be made to spring a surprise blowjob on somebody.

[Lee]

Just seen the trailer, and it looks like they've done a really good job on the graphics side of things. I'm sure the precise opposite can be said for the actual programme.

[Cheeky Monkey]

Wow. I just found out one of the contestants is someone I had a one night stand with whilst at uni. Seeing as I've been redundant for a while and the job hunt is going very badly indeed, should I consider selling my story for some hard beautiful cash?

I've always wanted to be one of those guys in The Sun, photographed in a stained T-shirt looking stern-faced and puffy eyed, glory years long gone with arms folded over a spare tire and hair gelled shinily upright in one last desperate act of defiance.

On second thoughts...nah.

[Emma Raducanu]

What's her name? I want to give her a score out of 10.

[Ambient Sheep]

I think it would be more fun if we all had to guess - we'll wait until it airs, give it a day or two, then put in a poll on the top of the thread and vote as to which one we think he's shagged.

Then all we do is hope he doesn't fib about the right answer.  Perhaps he has to give the answer to Neil first in a sealed PM or something.

[confettiinmyhair]

We can reveal that a second babe is getting ready for all-out phwoar with stunning Karly Ashworth.

Former Miss Wales Stephanie Holland is set to shake things up with a late appearance on BB, which starts on Thursday.

Bosses want her to tough it out for the title of top BB totty this summer, against Karly who narrowly missed out on becoming Miss Scotland.

And sizzling Stephanie, 22, who is a trained pole dancer, plans to let her ample assets do the talking twhen she enters the BB house in a few weeks' time.

Either of these two?

[Spiteface]

Whatever, they'll be booted out sharpish and be in Nuts magazine within a month at most.

[Backstage With Slowdive]

Wow. I just found out one of the contestants is someone I had a one night stand with whilst at uni. Seeing as I've been redundant for a while and the job hunt is going very badly indeed, should I consider selling my story for some hard beautiful cash?

That's a difficult question. Obviously your tale is worth nothing once they're off the show, but if you tell too early you'll get less than if you wait for them to become a major contender. If they are massively unpopular from the off then it's not worth it.

As a test run, try working as a prostitute for a few weeks.

[Cheeky Monkey]

Here's a clue: I went to Cardiff University.

The thing is, I would probably feel a lot smugger about it if a) my memory of it wasn't so blurry and b) I didn't know literally dozens of others with similar stories.

I have a few interesting sexy anecdotes about her that I could share but I'm undecided as to whether broadcasting them on the internet would be the next step in my terminal moral decline. I suspect it might be.

What I will say is that this particular housemate is actually quite a pleasant, down-to-earth girl, and certainly capable of being a bit more intelligent and interesting than your typical Big Brother Nuts-bait. But I can also easily see her being a complete fucking nightmare once the spotlight is on her as well.

I'm still not going to watch it though.

[Cheeky Monkey]

As a test run, try working as a prostitute for a few weeks.

I just did a work placement at a tabloid newspaper. Does this count etc etc

[Ja'moke]

Are you positive she's a housemate though? The Daily Star are rarely correct on these things.

[Ja'moke]

Spoiler concerning this years 'twist':

Spoiler alert

The wait is nearly over. Tomorrow at 9pm live on Channel 4, Big Brother will celebrate a decade on the air with the arrival of 8 men and 8 women who each have a plan to entertain us over the summer months and leave the house victorious (and £100,000 richer).

Those entering the house could potentially spend up to 13 weeks in the Big Brother house but in true Big Brother style they won't be allowed to get too comfortable. Within minutes of them all arriving, Big Brother will reveal to viewers and those in the house that they are not yet official housemates and will not get access to the full Big Brother house.

All hopeful housemates will have to individually earn their housemate status over the next three days by completing tasks set by Big Brother. Each task has been designed to challenge the hopefuls' fears and pride and some will require them to go head to head against one another in a bid to become a bone fide housemate.

Only once the 'hopefuls' have successfully completed a task and been granted housemate status will they be allowed access to the 'real' Big Brother house. Until then they will only be able to access the living room (void of any creature comforts), a toilet and the garden.

Hopefuls won't get access to their suitcases and will be forced to spend their first night sleeping on the living room floor. Bathing will be a bath in the garden which can only be filled by carrying cold water in a hole-ridden bucket across the garden.

All 16 people entering the house have been in hiding for the past few weeks. All that is being revealed before the launch is that the 16 are the most diverse group yet, with hopeful housemates from a wide range of countries and backgrounds. The eldest is 40 and the youngest is 18.

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[mycroft]

Sounds vaguely like the same bollocks they do every year. I can't see the point in introducing an immediate twist when we've yet to properly get to know the housemates. Just makes it all the more boring, for me.

[Famous Mortimer]

It seems a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes the show good. It's about people, not about what stupid gimmicks a house has (whose appeal fails after about ten minutes).

[Backstage With Slowdive]

I'd have the twist that they are kidded one of them is murdered and they have to solve it. Or that Dead Set has come true.

[Emma Raducanu]

See, for me this is the problem with Big Brother and has been for a number of years. Twists are never twists. It'd be a twist if the housemates weren't expecting something like this to happen, but they are.

Year on year the housemates grow ever-more paranoid or spend every waking second trying to figure out if there's a twist involved. Glynn couldn't make a slice of toast without someone guessing it was a twist. Remember the porn star woman a few years ago? She spent her duration in the house convinving everyone that she'd figured things out and that Big Brother had plotted a twist and I spent the whole time pulling my hair out wondering why the fuck she insisted every thing was a twist. This is why. A good twist would be that there are no twists. At least no one would be expecting that.

[Ja'moke]

I agree, but to be fair this one does sound marginally better than the last few twists they've done, mainly that shitty all female launch and the wedding stunt from last year.

The idea of back to basics is good and having to sleep in a room with no furniture other than a toilet and a bath in the garden. And with them actually have to do something (what that is yet I'm not sure) to earn housemate status. Hopefully it makes them work a bit harder because one of the big problems in the last couple of series is that the housemates just don't give a shit, they lay around all day and barely get involved in the tasks.

Hopefully this kicks them up the arse. But as always it'll most likely flop.

[Backstage With Slowdive]

I was daydreaming just now that if I were a contestant, I'd quickly establish my notoriety as the Rebel Contestant who refuses to speak in the Diary Room or nominate anyone or take any notice of BB at all. If I got called in and told to do one of those tasks where I have to fool the others, I'd immediately tell them about it.

But then I thought: "if I did that, they might just think me telling them was itself a ruse, and so..."

So I switched back to the daydream where I'm the Apprentice contestant who refuses to dis the others. I have a great moment where I justify it by saying it's what teamwork requires, as I'm going to have to carry on working with these people for the near future as far as I know.

[Ja'moke]

BREAKING NEWS!

BIG BROTHER TO BEAR ALL



BIG BROTHER bosses will tonight unveil 16 of the most wild and outrageous wannabes ever to step foot in to the BB house.

In a shocking twist we can reveal that one of the housemates is a 6ft grizzly bear named Bo. The former North American native is set to tear things up with his surprise appearance on BB, which launches tonight on Channel 4, from 9pm.

Bosses want the silvertip to make his fellow housemates as uncomfortable as possible. Bo will have his own bedroom complete with an authentic river valley, but will have to share living and kitchen facilities with the other nutters.

Bo is also known for his raging libido and producers hope for sexy romps with model Karly Ashworth, who narrowly missed out on becoming Miss Scotland.

At the auditions the brown beast teased producers by telling them: "I'm very dominant... I like to be in control. After too much salmon I have been known to try things."

A show source said: "It's going to be a real battle for this year's housemates. Bo is due to go in last.

"He'll certainly have the fellas in the house all worried. He will think he's King of BB.

"But as usual with Big Brother, they will shake things up.

"Half way through the series they plan to throw in Marmi, an Arctic polar bear with a bad attitude. This will definitely put Bo in his place."

Bo is currently the 2/1 favourite to eat the show.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/bigbrother/view/83029/Big-Bro-To-Bear-All/

[Spiteface]

Just fill the house with dangerous animals.  And watch them attack the housemates.

I'd ordinarily say I'm not watching this year (I stopped watching half way through BB3), but I ALWAYS end up watching them all go in on the first night.  THEN I stop watching any further than that.

I need something to be angry about.

[Emma Raducanu]

Is this streamed on the internet at all? I can't get near a tv.

[klaatu!]

Is this streamed on the internet at all? I can't get near a tv.

www.tvcatchup.com (you need to sign up for a free account first)