Social media campaign offers $20k for HM to walk

Must leave on their own accord

A social media campaign titled #FreeBBAU is offering $20,000 to any Big Brother housemate who voluntarily leaves the house.

But how will any of the housemates learn of the offer?

The campaign twitter account @hlfu_au has posted various videos of their attempts to reach the housemates, including a hidden “pizza delivery” (which would clearly never work!)

But what was impressive was their attempt to fly a toy dolphin into the house using a remote control helicopter. It also appears they’ve been speaking through a megaphone near the BB compound.

A rep running the campaign told us the housemate “just has to leave BB of their own will (not be voted out) to get the $$”

Disclaimer: The video and twitter account are part of a marketing campaign for NAB Bank – but we thought the dolphin helicopter was pretty cool, so we’re giving them a plug. We’ve been told the $20k offer is the real deal.

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The verdict is in: BB Confidential sucks

Universally panned by TV critics and fans

Big Brother 2012 eye

Big Brother Confidential, the “not uncut” extra show in this year’s BB lineup relaunched in a 8pm timeslot last night.

And today it’s already being slammed as a boring and cheap extension of the daily show.

Jenna Clarke at the Sydney Morning Herald dedicated a whole article to shaming the show, titled Big Brother manages to get worse. Of particular note was BB Confidential’s awful graphics:

“If the cutting-room floor of BB was in an abattoir, Confidential would be offal.

“What the 30 minutes of Big Brother Confidential lacks in nudity and night-time romps it makes up for with special effects produced on a Commodore 64.”

The complaints were mirrored at rival News Limited’s Herald Sun paper, where Siobhan Duck wrote:

“It also seems to have metamorphosised into a clip show with silly voice-overs (care-of Mike Goldman) and bad special effects.”

“I am not sure what was worse: the gratuitous nudey show that Ten churned out or this poor-man’s BB meets Funniest Home Videos. I think I’ll stick to the daily show”

Big Brother Confidential was broadcast last week at a mature 10.10pm Wednesday timeslot, allowing producers to show MA15+ content including nudity and adult themes. Despite this freedom, footage was kept very “family friendly”.

For unknown reasons Channel Nine then moved the show to 8pm Thursday, meaning that footage must now be PG.

We asked the twittersphere what they thought of Confidential. Join the conversation by following @behindbb on twitter and join us in our unofficial forums.

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Day 19

Footage from the Sunday eviction show.

8.53am – It’s Estelle’s 24th birthday and the housemates are being woken with a rooster call. Layla is talking about the nutritional value of a cereal and Estelle comments about how she should be looking at the calories, not the carbs. Then later Layla says about Estelle “I really can’t stand her”, and has to leave the kitchen. Layla says “I can’t take it, it’s her birthday and I want to smack her in the head. I hate being told I’m wrong. I might be wrong but it’s only my opinion”.

Sarah is telling Ben that Estelle’s constant need to be involved in everything is getting annoying.

Angie suggests to some of the girls it may be worth having a discussion with Estelle about her constantly shutting people down and trying to get involved in things that aren’t hers to get involved in.

Estelle approaches Sarah and Ben “can I put my two cents in? I think you’re amazing and I noticed the self doubt feelings and if you weren’t in here you wouldn’t be feeling them because it’s so foreign to you” and so on… They hug but Ben doesn’t look very enthusiastic about it.

6.13pm – Everyone but Estelle is getting dressed up for her party in the diary room. It’s a street theme and Estelle screams when she sees all of their costumes (which are some rap / ghetto stereotype). Later she thanks the housemates because she hasn’t celebrated a birthday since she was little. The others cheer they love her. Sarah toasts to Estelle’s birthday “you’re an amazing spiritual person”, some of the boys comment Sarah used the same line previously.

9.54pm – There’s a rap battle going on and Michael is hosting. 30 seconds to bust a piece of the freshest style you got.

Turns out a rap battle is just the housemates dancing in front of each other.

First is Ray vs Sarah and Ray takes Sarah’s cap off during the dance.

Not to editorialise – but Ray dances look a douche.

After the music finishes Sarah complains “can we not get aggressive, it’s not on” (referring to Ray taking her hat). She is quite upset by it. Bradley boos and Sarah gives him the finger, then takes his hat off his head. Sarah then walks away and Ray follows to apologise “sorry, it’s what I do with my mates”. Sarah says “I don’t care I’m not your mate and I’m not your girlfriend. I’m not a bloke. You pushed me again. It’s not on”. Ray keeps saying “I’m really sorry, I’m really sorry”.

10.12pm – Sarah is in the bedroom still very upset about the dance battle earlier. “I was trying to dance and be in the spirit of things and being shoved and pushed and my hat ripped off”. She’s teary. Ben says “I think it was his face, it looked really aggressive, it didn’t look like he was having fun it looked like he was aggressive”.

Outside Michael is telling Ray “none of the boys thought you went too far and you went first – any of the boys would probably have gone that far, we didn’t know what the boundary was”.

Ben tells Sarah Ray didn’t want to lose the competition so he just had to take control and be aggressive to win. Ben said he was standing on the sidelines thinking “this is just a pressure cooker”. “You are a 30 year old woman and we’re doing our best to hang out with 20 year olds”. Ray enters the bathroom to apologise to Sarah (who is in the toilet) again but Ben butts in and says to Ray “you’ve actually made it to the point where if you will make it worse if you push it. She just wants to talk about it with other people. All I can say to you is I watched what happened and I know what you’re like, it just comes across as so aggressive. She’s coming out of the bathroom now but if you’re going to push the subject I don’t think that’s right”.

Sarah emerges from the toilet and Ray says “I know you don’t want to talk about it now but my heart says lets talk about it”. Sarah says “we’ll talk about it in the morning, lets just go make it a good night for Estelle”.

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Day 19

2003: It’s a day of health scares in both houses. Regina has a suspicious lump on her chest and requests to see a nurse. Belinda has an upset stomach. Caro falls off a couch and strains his ankle, and Vincent has a panic attack which causes him trouble breathing. At the end of the day everyone is ok.

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BB’s second house

UPDATE: It's not at Dreamworld

In an update to our previous story about Big Brother’s plans to fake a second house, we can confirm that the production team have been filming at a second location some 30 minutes away from Dreamworld.

Over the past few weeks the house has been kitted out to appear like a standard Big Brother house and fake housemates have been filmed in situ. The fake house isn’t recorded 24/7 and the fake housemates don’t live there.

The footage will be played to the real housemates – most probably this Sunday – as well as recordings of the audience from last Sunday’s eviction waving fake signs and cheering for fake housemates.

Our sources tell us the rationale is to to increase competition and make the housemates try harder to win the weekly tasks. At only three weeks in to the series and most housemates still denying they’re part of a competition, we wonder what effect it really will have.

What do you think about all this fake house business? Head to our forums to discuss with other fans!

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Day 18

9.48am – Ray is about to have his luxury breakfast again as part of the YES/NO task – blueberry pancakes which are being cooked by Angie and Ben (who really don’t like Ray). There are still housemates in bed so Big Brother plays rave music into the house, causing almost all of the housemates to dance around. Ray seems to dance the hardest with a very Jersey Shore-esque fist pump. Afterwards, Angie and Benjamin are trying to work out with two mysterious liquids on the food preparation table is. Angie thinks it smells like sour cream, but they’re not allowed to taste the food to test. Ironically pre-empting a backfire situation, Ryan is in the bedroom telling some of the housemates he will “do something to pay you back” for having eaten luxury food all week while the other housemates are on staples.

Benjamin is explaining to some of the housemates in the kitchen:

“When I die I’m going to come to a gate and there’s going to be god or some form of whatever that is and they’re gonna be like ‘hey Benjamin, the reason you’re not coming to here and you’re going to hell is you made pancakes for Ray'”. All the HMs laugh. Ray enters and Angie sits him down, revealing his breakfast. It’s a giant stack of pancakes which Angie explains is 2kg of pancake batter which is slightly burnt. Big Brother suddenly asks Ben and Angie to repeat the rules of the YES/NO task in preparing Ray’s food. Big Brother then says he noticed Benjamin putting his finger in the butter milk and then licking it.

Ben: Oh thank god, I’m sorry people but I’m glad he doesn’t have to eat this. I didn’t know what it was (referring to the mysterious liquids from before).

Big Brother announces it was a clear violation of the rules and counts as a NO. If they say one more NO they fail the task.

11.07am – Ray is still trying to eat the pile of pancakes and he’s struggling. Angie suggests he eats it throughout the day – eating all of it at once and then vomiting would be a bad idea. Angie goes to leave and suggests they leave Ray alone. Ben says no I’ll stay with Ray for a while. Ray looks surprised.

11.07am – Ben is ready to confront Ray about their sour relationship. He says it’s the first time he’s had a chance to alone, but obviously I’ve been annoyed with you for quite some time.

Ben: To be perfectly honest when I threw a glass of water on Bradley’s face multiple people had come up to me and told me about how you were expressing your opinion and at that particular point I felt like you were a friend of mine and you decided to have all these opinions about me behind my back, then out of nowhere I get all these people telling me (differently). Then when I would say things in public I can see mirrors, I can see you roll your eyes at me so I’m like why are you rolling your eyes at anything I say? Why when you’re so opinionated, would just not just come and have that conversation with me?

Ray: I wasn’t upset that you threw a glass of water at Bradley I was upset you threw a glass of water. It could have been on anybody and I just think in terms of table etiquette I don’t want it to get to the stage where we throw food at each other.

Ben: Did you see what happened afterwards, when I went and spoke to Bradley?

Ray: I understand that 100%

George enters and the two others ask him to step out for a moment. He doesn’t for a while.

Ben explains he thought Ray was a nice person but then the day of nominations you didn’t even look me in the eye. Ray says he didn’t have to make any effort at nominations because he thought it was clear who was Ben’s enemies. Ben replies his issue is that Ray continued to have an opinion without talking to him.

Ray: I can tell you’re upset but whether you’re trying to be nasty or not, it doesn’t come across that way.

Ben then explains that Ray was the first person male to come and talk to him when he first entered the house and it stripped away Ben as being “the gay housemate” but then on the other hand Ray has called Ben a poof during jokes and then didn’t apologise for doing that. Ray says he was meaning to apologise, but Ben explains for not apologising in front of everyone else in the room it made the whole thing worse. “Why have you grandstanded the fact that you said this word and not apologised for it?”

Ray: It was a joke ok, I thought you’d laugh it off. I’m sorry about it.

They wrap it up by saying sorry and Ray thanks Ben for breakfast.

2.19pm – All housemates are called to the living room where BB reminds them they have said no three times already for this week’s YES/NO task. They have one last activity to complete.

Big Brother: Bradley, would you like to receive your first real kiss from one of your fellow female housemates?

Bradley: Yes, Big Brother.

All the housemates laugh. The female housemates are then reminded of the rules of the task yet again, and one is to step forward. Estelle is instantly egged on by the housemates and she reluctantly does it. Bradley looks really nervous and Ryan looks a little weird about it. They kiss, and BB announces they have passed the task. Everyone cheers for not having to eat staples next week “you don’t win friends with lentils”.

Later on the HMs are all in the kitchen to arrange this week’s shopping. Ray wants ten cans of smoked muscles. Stacey wants muesli. Ryan wants scotch fingers. Josh wants bananas. Angie wants Tim Tams. Stacey wants vita-wheets. Layla wants ice cream cones, 24 pack. Bradley wants top deck chocolate and cocopops.

Layla leaves the kitchen and is excited about how cheap the ice cream cones were – 24 pack for $2.50 or so. Zoe asks if Layla got ice cream with it and Layla suddenly looks mortified – she doesn’t realise it’s just the cone and runs inside to amend the shopping. Ray jokes they shouldn’t have told her.

There’s some aftermath after the kiss. Ryan is feeling a bit weird about it but George tells him to chill out – lucky it wasn’t any of the other guys because they would have “full pashed her like nothing hey”. Sarah explains Bradley didn’t open his mouth at all. Meanwhile Bradley is being called to the diary room to talk about his experience. He says “it was quite good I got really shaky and nervous, I don’t know why, probably because I’d never really kissed a girl before and it was a really bizarre experience. The kiss didn’t mean all that much but meant more coming from her than another female housemate”.

“It was quite nice it was a good feeling. I guess I would sum it up as a good but weird feeling.”

6.30pm – Ben is getting a haircut from Stacey using Ben’s beard trimmer. Ben is shocked at how short it is on just one side (pretty much a number 0). He screams “I’m bald, so bald!” He screams and everyone laughs. Stacey reassures him “it will grow tomorrow”. Ben continues to jokingly scream and act psycho. “Don’t look at me I’m hideous!”. Stacey chases Ben through the house while he screams.

Ryan has come to the diary room and says “nice game today Big Brother with Bradley and Estelle, but a games a game and we won”.

Big Brother reminds Ryan that he didn’t select Estelle. Ryan looks stumped, “yeah.. you’re right”.

Estelle is going to bed early without Ryan. George comments to Layla it appears as if Ryan has been kicked out of Estelle’s bed. Ryan says “goodnight babe” to Estelle. Bradley jokes “gaaaaaay”, “super gay”.

Ryan: Stop taking the crumbs Bradley

The housemate jeer.

Stacey: Brad one person can only take so much and it was Ryan’s turn to dish it out.

Ryan: Thank you everyone.

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