So which rumours were right? The rich and poor being segregated? Two houses? Not enough beds? Peter Abbott, Big Brother himself and Southern Star/Endemol Producer probably started more of these rumours than he'd like to admit. And it was all to catch everyone off guard. No housemate was going to be secure in his house again. Not ever.
Gretel Petal (Gretel Killeen) is back again this year and she has a side-kick - Little Timmy (Tim Fergusson). While Gretel Petal is a familiar face to BB addicts, Little Timmy is best known for his failed ventures such as a comedy singing act called the Doug Anthony All Stars and hosting several TV shows including Unreal TV and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush. While Gretel Petal gets to hog the limelight up on the stage, Little Timmy gets to stand in the rain in the audience and pry one-word answers out of the wet and overawed audience members. He will also be hosting the Friday night show The Insider which isn't, as first touted, about a mole in the house, but it's a show about the family and friends of the housemates and how they are coping with their loved ones in the house. In other words it's the failed Saturday show from BB1 reworked, renamed and thrown back at us to fail again. We don't want to see the housemates families - we want to see the housemates.
We have more housemates this year than any other. There are 16 possible housemates that we were shown last night - more than either of the previous Big Brothers who had only 12 (well last year there were another six "on ice" in an isolated area without TV or any outside contact, some of whom became "intruders").
There's the house. We all know by now that there are two houses - the round house (where everything is round) and the square house (where everything is square). Not rocket science. Both houses are ultra-modern marvels with futuristic mirror patterns on the walls and round port-hole type windows in the with very ordinary looking square windows in the square room.
The things that really set this house apart from the old house: no cameras to be seen *anywhere* (although Gretel Petal says that there is one camera that is visible by the housemates - they just haven't found it yet!), there is no bathroom - not only is the it outside in the back yard with little if anywhere to hide from the prying eyes of the camera that surrounds it completely and the kitchen is bare - a work bench and a fridge is the full extent of it in the house - outside there is a barbeque and a stainless steel tub for washing up (I gather that's what they have to use to clean their clothes as well - not sure I'd want to wash the jocks of some guy I didn't know washed in the same bowl as my drinking glasses or food plates were watched - ewwww). All very different but wow - so many possibilities.
And what about the housemates - who the heck do we have in the house this year? Well to begin with we only have six housemates. Six? Has Channel Ten gone mad? We were introduced to six more possible housemates but they were ordered back into their cars and to go on their way. Their way where? Who knows! We only hope Big Brother does!
Let's quickly meet the six we don't know anything much about first.
Daniel is a 28-year-old record store salesperson. Dark hair, a freaky haircut and wild eyes are about all we know about this one.
If you prefer the female gender as your viewing pleasure, then you can get some hot looks from Regina. She's a 29-year-old shop owner from Tasmania wicked eyes and more of that crazy hair (who on earth did they employ to do the hair for these guys in the photo shoot in NW?).
Ahhhh Joanne. The only housemate rumoured to be going in where there was some information on her before the show started. A 23-year-old Solicitor (are Solicitors allowed to be that young?) who has the fake boobs touted to have been given to her as a birthday present from her Father. Who's a Daddy's girl then? She's the perfect eye candy for the boys.
Patrick is a 29-year-old business manager from NSW. Err he's ordinary. Very ordinary. Very, very ordinary. Ohhh you got it. Well he is! Nothing stands out with this guy. Another Ben or Peter and possible winner? Who knows!
More lovely ladies with Chrissie, a 29-year-old copywriter. This is one of two "larger" ladies that will enter the house (get it over now guys. I don't carry the moniker of Big Sister because I like to boss people around - I'm big and I'm glad to see that bigger people are finally being recognized. Then again maybe they will have a double dose of Sara-Marie on their hands :)
Are young boys your weakness? Then perhaps you'll go for Saxon, the 19-year-old arts student from NSW (with the number of arts students they get in here I'm beginning to wonder if it's a course requirement now or something!). He has what seems to me to be a very open face. He certainly looks a lot older than his years - I'd have picked him for closer to 30 than 20.
Another young one is Leah, 18-year-old high school graduate from NSW. Pretty auburn wavy hair, a big smile and a friendly face is going to make here one of the most popular housemates, I would say.
Brett is a 30-year-old detective - but will his deductive reasoning help at all? He's got a bit of a goofy look about him - although he looks nothing like him, he kind of reminds me of Kieran - a similar smile or something and I think that he'll have a great sense of humour.
At 24-years-old, Tamara is a travel agent from Queensland. The strange thing is that she looks almost identical to Tamara - the long wavy reddish tipped hair, the broad smile - they could honestly be sisters. Maybe they *are* sisters! She seems like a sweet girl as well.
And last but not least is Vincent. This 28-year-old engineer is from Victoria. Now this guy seems like a cutie. He has a little of the crazy hair thing going on but it looks like it's been smooshed down enough to look presentable. He has really dark hair and hazel eyes that you could just melt into ... errr yes, that's right, I'm married now. *cough*
Now these are the people we have no idea about. These are the ones that we can only guess on where they are. There are the right number if we got them all in the house, but there's a slight problem with that. By my best calculations (and the bedrooms haven't been too easy to see) there are only five beds in each house.
Watch out tomorrow for an in depth discussion about the ones that *are* our current housemates.
So onto today. Overnight our raving lunatics did what all people do when they are thrust into a strange situation with other pretty young things and ... SLEPT! Yes, they slept. Didn't BB give them enough alcohol or something? Why aren't they partying? Where are the greyhound races? The closest we got to anything exciting was when the girls dressed Carlos up in women's clothes. How lame is that?
But there is another explanation. Do you think that possibly BB has chosen *mature* people for the house? No, I cannot accept that when BB has the chance for interesting footage, he's going to put in housemates that are in bed at midnight. The 11 pm until 1 am show touted to start next week is going to be mighty boring if for the last hour the housemates are all snoring. BB will have to resort to giving them more alcohol again to liven things up. Yay!
The major question of last night is why send one lonely little soul into the round house and leave the square house almost filled to the brim and send six of the housemates away to who knows where? Are they back at the hotel they have been staying in for most of last week to keep them away from any pre-production slip-ups in rumours (as there were in the end)? Why are there only ten beds in total when there are 16 possible housemates?
We do indeed have a new breed of animal this year in the guise of Big Brother 3. What is going to happen next? Gretel Petal is assures us that there will be some surprise every single night of this week (at least). Is there a third house? What is the strange tower structure in the middle of the two houses and why isn't it marked on the maps except by a set of stairs from each heading up to something that are currently hidden behind closed doors in either bedroom? Will all 16 housemates get a chance in the house or is this it and the others have all gone home already?
We'll find out so much more I guess as time goes by on Gib Brother 3.
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