Author: Tim

Update: Sure enough, a few hours after this article was published the official Big Brother Facebook page has updated their cover image to include the “every housemate has a secret” promo. We may have rushed them along :-)

Remember when the new BB series was titled “Big Brother: Secrets”, but was then mysteriously renamed?

Our sources have revealed the latest round of Big Brother promos airing this weekend will explain that “every housemate has a secret”.

The promos features various extras from the shuffle ads making a ‘shush’ motion at the camera. A voicoever then asks “can they keep their secret?”

The ads have only just started airing at this point as housemates go into lockdown today.

It’s highly likely the ‘secrets’ theme is based on Secret Story, one of the French versions of Big Brother. In that show each housemate has to conceal a secret with all others trying to discover it. If a secret is guessed correctly, the person wins the other housemate’s prize money. Each secret is worth around €10,000.

A random story to pop up in today’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that promotions girl Ruby Jacenko has been contracted by Southern Star and is about to go into lockdown before the season launch.

Ruby is known as “that chick who had a romance with Westlife singer Brian McFadden” and had previously pole danced at one of classy Kyle Sandilands’ birthday parties.

Our sources have confirmed now that Ruby has been named, she’s been kicked out of the show.

While we can all shrug our shoulders and wait for the next potential housemate to fill her spot, we can’t help but point out that Ruby looks exactly like the type of person producers initially said they were trying to avoid.

Blonde busty types were rejected in the Big Brother promo advertising, and during interviews producers said they were looking for ‘real Australians’. Do you think they’ll keep their word? Leave a comment below or discuss on our forums.

As the fit out of the Big Brother house nears completion, we’ve had word that each of the rooms in this year’s house has a specific theme: an era in time. Think 1960s, 1970s, and so on. All of the room’s furnishings are said to be inspired by that era. Little Sister hinted at a “past, present and future” theme on the official website when the site went live yesterday.

The biggest rooms in the house are the bedroom, the lounge room, the kitchen, the bathroom and the Rewards Room; these are the most likely to be themed.

Of the fourteen housemates going in to the house, four will be sharing beds and the rest will be in single beds.

We’re also told the backyard is still a work in progress, and that the Rewards Room deck is themed like a pirate ship.

We learnt yesterday that each of the beds in the bedroom has blue neon lights around the bottom – in a similar fashion to the last few seasons of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.

Another day, another leak from the compound on the Gold Coast. We can confirm that the production team have sourced beds with blue neon lights attached to the underside, turning the bedroom into a retro looking high class hangout.

The problem is that we’ve seen it before – Big Brother UK used the same idea (as can be seen below), so it begs the question – if we are using the UK version of the eviction stage, the UK bed design, the UK eye etc etc, are the housemates going to be the only Australian part of the 2012 series?

What do you think? Is imitation the highest form of flattery? Do you even care? Head to our forums or leave a comment below.

Update: The new catwalk platform has mysteriously disappeared from the seating chart on the ticketing website. Too little too late for a cover up though, see the original chart and images below!

Tickets for the Big Brother launch night went on sale today and the seating chart has given us a glimpse of how the eviction stage will work.

Evictions and upcoming specials will return to the Dreamworld Auditorium. The biggest change is the removal of the “eviction plank” that led evictees through the centre of the crowd. Evictees will now enter via the side of the auditorium, on a 90 degree catwalk.

Walking past the front of the stage they will then have the chance to stop and pose on a small circular platform, wave to the crowd, tv cameras (and possible photographers below) before moving up to the main stage for the eviction interview. A ‘VIP area’ will have the best viewing area of the ‘pose platform’.

Behind Big Brother user marquisite has created this composite image (left) to show how the new catwalk and VIP seating will look on TV:

We’ve already made a song and dance about how much producers have been “borrowing” from Big Brother UK, but this is no different. The catwalk idea has come straight from Britain (image on the right above).

Here’s how they do it (eviction happens towards the end of the video):