Day 73

This episode was a one hour special titled “Pamela Anderson – Tricks of the trade”.

After a montage of Pamela-related footage, the BB theme opens. Tonight:

– Pamela teaches the houseamtes the tricks of the Hollywood trade.
– What’s talk about when a superstar drops in for dinner?
– Brigitte’s emotional farewell “to the friends that became her family…”

Pamela enters the house and sits in the diary room while Brigitte is evicted through the lounge room door. “I don’t wanna go!” she yells as the door closes.

A recap of this week’s task and footage of the housemates chasing celebrities is shown. The footage of “a very convincing Pamela Anderson” modelling in the lounge room one-way glass is shown. The housemates speculate whether or not it was the real Pamela.

Rory enters the diary room with Brigitte’s bags and meets Pamela. He looks at her breasts constantly while in the diary room. He is asked by Big Brother to escort Ms. Anderson out of the diary room to meet the other housemates. Cherry starts acting like a stalker and taking as many pictures as he can. “This is so mental!” says Ben.

The housemates take Pamela on a tour outside and shows her the ant farm, the spa “that’s never on,” and Ben’s kombi. Rory, the gentleman, lets Pamela borrow his trench coat.

In the dining room, the housemates are pampered with champagne and they start asking her about her children, schooling, and their first Pamela experiences.

As Pamela is vegetarian, the menu tonight is vegetarian food. Rory looks appalled that there isn’t any meat.

The conversation moves to paparazzi and Alice asks Pamela what she thinks about paparazzi. “I don’t like them taking photos of my kids, but it’s part of the deal with yourself, you can’t complain.”

The housemates ask her a range of questions, mainly focused at Bay Watch, her boobs, and her life as a celebrity. Pamela pops in a “have you heard of PETA?” – some housemates have, Travis hasn’t. “I’ve heard of WWF though?”

Ad break.

Pamela starts asking the housemates questions from the cards that Big Brother has provided. She asks Travis where he would take her if they went on a date. “I think we would go riding through Sydney on my horse Thunder with green cordial in our hands.” “What text message would you send me the next day?” “Hey Pamela, you were so cool last night, hope you had fun. Talk to you soon!”

The next question is for Alice – “how would you rate Travis’ kisses out of 10?” “It was pretty dismal!” She says that he didn’t want to kiss back and Travis says he doesn’t like to kiss with tongue.

“What else can you do with your hands Rory? I felt something before…” Rory tells Pamela that he’s a bad boy who’s good at it.

“You’re a mother in the house, and you give advice to everyone – do you have any advice for me?” she asks Terri. She doesn’t give her a proper answer but instead asks how old Pamela is.

Pamela asks if Cherry is afraid of commitment. “She’s not my chick, we just made good use of the time we had.”

Travis keeps asking stupid questions – for example, “do you know Kelly Clarkson?” After laughing for a few moments she tells him that her friends are a bit more cooky. “Artists, photographers, that kind of thing.”

Big Brother interupts the dinner and tells Pamela that it’s time to go. She hints that tomorrow will be something involving glitter and advises Travis to wax his legs. “Call me!” yells Ben. The housemates swoon over what just happened and everyone is a little shell-shocked.

The housemates gather on the couch to watch Brigitte’s farewell. She says that it’s weird that she’s out of the house now but is upset that her hair wasn’t done properly. “I don’t regret anything that I’ve done I just had heaps of fun.” Brigitte gives her 10% of the prize money to Alice.

Through the housemates she goes.

Travis – be careful, you do people’s heads in. I love you and had lots of fun with you.
Rory – From the beginning I liked you, and then you changed. I don’t know what happened but we didn’t seem to get along very well. I do like you, you’re a great person, you have a great heart… we just didn’t get along.
Terri – I’m going to miss you so much! We had so many good times in the house and we didn’t hate each other. I learned a lot from you! I’ll miss you.
Cherry – You’re a great person and you finally got this (she makes a kissing motion). I won’t have you to cuddle, but you won’t have me, so you can have the bear with a hole in its bum. You helped me get rid of the thing that was holding me back.

She starts crying.

Alice – Don’t laugh at me cos I’m crying. I can’t talk, I’m too sad! You taught me so much, I don’t know if you know you taught me so much but you did. You helped me realise there’s other things in my life. You inspired me to like, actually go to uni next year and do what I want. Thank you so much for that. We weren’t close in the beginning but you always talked about getting me out of my shell and you did. I love you!

Time for her hand grenade. “I did it tough, and the person I’m about to give my grenade to is going to do it tougher!” She gives her grenade to Rory, who will now have to live on the most basic food. Big Brother will deliver his three nutritious, plentiful, and dull daily meals to the diary. “I’ll be eating like a princess!”
Alice enters the diary room and talks to Big Brother about Brigitte’s departure. She says that it’s not until the person is gone until you realise how much the person means. Alice says that she would have wanted to be a part of the night (Pamela entering the house). “It’s not always easy to say you’ll see them in a week and a half – in here you see them 24 hours a day and I relied on her as much as she relied on me. I’ll miss her heaps.”

Ben and Cherry are outside playing football. Ben questions whether or not Big Brother will keep up his charade and keep him confined to the kombi.

Rory is in the diary room. Big Brother asks him how he feels about receiving Brigitte’s grenade. He says he is not bothered and knew that he would have got her grenade anyway. He talks about how different he was to her and how they got on each other’s nerves. He says he doesn’t hate her.

Next into the diary room is Cherry. Big Brother leads a question and says “you lost a close friend tonight…” Cherry says that seeing the messages on the screen was the hardest because it kicks in that she is actually gone. “I’m pretty devo’d.” Big Brother asks is Cherry will “put any moves” on Pammy. He says he cannot say and that Big Brother should keep watching until tomorrow.

Ben picks up the kombi phone and speaks to Big Brother. He asks him how he feels spending his second night in the kombi. “It’s segregating me from the group a bit and it sucks, especially with this cold weather.”

All the housemates are outside in the yard chatting and Alice starts crying. Travis and Rory give her a hug to cheer her up.

The housemates are all in the bed and are excited that tomorrow they get to see Pamela again. Ben is outside in the kombi.

It’s morning. “This is Big Brother. It’s time to wake up. Pamela will be arriving soon. Hair and make-up will be arriving shortly. The hot water will be on for 10 minutes only. Rory, your breakfast is waiting for you in the diary room.” Rory doesn’t want what Big Brother has dished up – “cool” porridge and an apple.

Ben is complaining to Cherry about how cold the kombi was. “I had three sleeping bags on!”

All housemates are called to the rewards area where they meet Pamela and find a beach-themed photo shoot prepared for them.

“What do you guys wanna wear?”
“Boardies” says Ben.
“What are bordies,” says Pamela.

Pamela helps the housemates select their outfits – her plan is to roll them around in the sand, spray glitter and cooking oil over them and take photos. A mysterious guy (the photographer) is never mentioned but watches over the whole thing.

Travis puts on a small pair of shorts and Pamela looks horrified when she notices his hairy legs. Pamela starts to spray oil on Ben but ends up spraying it on herself and telling eveyone how much she loves it.

Rory is the first one up – the mysterious guy is capturing the photos while Pamela offers advice. “I want to see your body! Put some sand on your body!” It’s all very Austin Powers.

Ad break – “Pamela’s cheeky calendar shoot continues!”

Cherry is the next one up and Pamela spreads him onto the sand and the photographer snaps away. After a barrage of “that’s hot!” the shoot continues.

Ben’s shoot is prepared and they place him cheesily behind a surfboard. “You’re smiling too much!” Pamela teaches Ben the “A E I O U” trick that she learnt being a Playboy. “Your body looks great!”

Travis is wearing an amazingly short pair of pants for his shot and doing stupid faces the entire time. Everyone tells him not to but he doesn’t listen – the photographer is clearly getting annoyed and Travis doesn’t take any direction.

Pamela directs Terri to jump into the water for her shoot. The light reflector almost falls on her head but Rory saves it. The shoot is over in a few moments because the reflection from the water is hurting her eyes.

Alice is wearing a black one-piece and Pamela gets her to sprawl over a blue fishing net. Everyone is laughing hysterically except Alice who doesn’t quite look like she’s having fun. Alice puts the net in her mouth and the photographer snaps away. “You love the net! You love it! Imagine you’re a dolphin… trapped in a net.”

Alice moves over to a new spot and Pamela holds the net up against her face. Alice gets a look at the camera – “holy moley!” The rest of the housemates get a look at the photos before doing one group shot. A montage of Pamela’s favourites is displayed on screen.

BB out.

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Making news this week…

Best experienced in audio form – download the Week 9 Radio show and skip to 46:05

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“Good evening and welcome to this TEN News update, I’m Sandra Sully.

“First tonight, fans and media this week called on the government to step up anti-hoon laws and give police more power to deal with dangerous drivers. This follows an incident on Tuesday where ‘Grey Nomad’ gang members, Terrence and Terri, took the Kombi van joyriding. They attempted to run down several pedestrians, and Terrence could be heard shouting, ‘This is what’s wrong with the youth of Australia today!’ They have not received a strike for their actions.

“Doctors were called into the Big Brother house on Wednesday night to examine Brigitte’s mental welfare. Concerns had been raised throughout the day as Brigitte had gone almost twenty four hours without screaming something at the top of her lungs. She had also failed to call Terrence a ‘weirdo’ al day, despite his repeated attempts at provocation by wearing his sarong. When approached for comment, Terrence replied, ‘what’s sarong with that?’. Housemates then attempted to cite Terrence as an example of why euthanasia should be legalised… and encouraged.

“Another race row hit the house on Thursday morning, as Terri commented during breakfast that her toast ‘wasn’t dark enough’. This prompted some of the younger housemates to tell her she was being racist. Terri defended her actions, while using the opportunity to once again deny she had ever said ‘slit eyes’. Comment was today being sought from Nobbi.

“And lastly, this week’s train task took a controversial turn for the worse yesterday as one housemate was asked to lay down on the train tracks to demonstrate why platform safety rules should be obeyed at all time. Travis has now been removed from the house and placed into intensive care, after the locomotive failed to actually stop at the Bro Town platform and struck him at full speed.

“And that’s it for this TEN News update, from all of us here, have a good night.”

What do you think? Comments very much welcome here

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BBBA Podcast – Day 62

In this day 62 episode we provide thought provoking discussion and insights into the last week of Big Brother. Topics include:

– Our tribue to our favourite housemate ever, Nobbi
– vid’s new favourite is Bridgitte due to her inspirational qualities
– “Under the radar” and “playing the game” make a come-back
– What’s so bad about voting strategically?
– The housemates are very horny due and need some release
– The ins and outs of Cherry’s butt crack
– Ben & Bianca need to slide ontop of each other already
– Grey Nomads!
– Alice… who?
– Rory breaks the stereotype and uses the word “cliche”
– Is Travis playing the game or does he have serious issues?
– The winner of Big Brother 2008 is… we dunno.
– We travel into the future and grab some audio from new housemate Pamela
– Well done with the tasks, Big Brother
– The series is winding up… nooo!

Off topics:

– Bitchy YouTube video blogs… blargh.
– Online stalkers
– vid rambles about old media
– Find vibes a new phone!
– Name our off-topic podcast show and win… maybe.

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Radio – Week 9 28/06/08

In this edition Dave, TiGS and ASHiE bring you the low-down on the past week inside the Big Brother house as well as discussing and dissecting all things Big Brother. They also take a look back at spy night on FNL and chat to BB Fan kruzin live on the air.

TiGS tries desperately to tie the scores in the debate, several people sing in an attempt to win $500 and the hosts try all methods to determine who will win BB08.

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Day 61 FNL

Terrence, still suffering from a neck injury, had to sit out FNL again this week but Spy Night carried on regardless.

Round One was “Shoe Phone Fetch” with housemates competing in pairs where one housemate was Fang the dog and the other was Maxwell Smart.

The housemate deemed ‘fang’ was dressed as a dog and had to crawl to a pile of shoes and carry them one-by-one in their mouth to their master Maxwell who then had to throw them through doors which were being opened and closed by the ninjas.

The girls went first with Alice and her dog Bianca scoring 8 and losing to Brigitte and her dog Terri who scored 9. The boys then had their turn and Ben and his dog Cherry scored 13, annihilating Rory and his Dog Travis who scored 9.

Two of the four losers were then invited to win their way back in a second chance round. Each losing boy was paired up with a losing girl and had to dress them with only their mouths.

Rory had to dress Brigitte and Travis had to dress Terri. Despite Travis sticking the tongue in while attaching Terri’s moustache, they lost out to Rory and Brigitte who won themselves a place back into the games.

Rory, Alice and Brigitte then took on Cherry, Ben and Bianca in Round Two – “Time Bomb Volleyball”. Teams had to return slime-filled balloons over the net. The first team to five points was to be the winner and that turned out to be Rory, Alice and Brigitte – the Red Team.

The night wasn’t quite over Blue Team-ers Cherry, Ben and Bianca though. They each got to take turns trying to blow up a missile by removing strings one-by-one. On Cherry’s third turn he finally picked the correct string and blew it up securing himself a spot in round Three.

Round three was a contest in which one boy paired up with one girl to race around an obstacle course. First up Rory played Agent 86 while Alice played Agent 99. They completed the course in 0:59 but were awarded 20 seconds each as a time penalty for falling off of a ledge. Cherry then took on the role of Agent 86 and, accompanied by his own Agent 99 Brigitte, beat out the first time with a flawless performance on the ledge and an overall time of 1:16.

Brigitte and Cherry then dressed as giant hands to play “Spy Snap”. Despite Brigitte’s obvious enthusiasm Cherry snapped himself three pairs in a row and took out the night. He chose Brigitte, Terrence and Bianca to accompany him to the movies to see a screening of Get Smart.

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Strategic voting is back – hurrah!

It’s nice when you get to this end of a Big Brother series and some housemates finally click on that the show show is really, on the inside, a game.

Strategic voting is the easiest way to get in and out of the diary room on nominations day with the least fuss and questioning from Big Brother. “I vote xxx because s/he is my biggest threat.” Signed sealed delivered.

As much as I hate Cherry, it’s clear he’s the one that actually understands what is going on. There’s a taboo around “playing the game” and how it’s unethical and wrong… but I see nothing against it. Playing the game does not mean that you cannot be yourself in that house. You can be yourself and show the true you to all your fellow housemates, and by watching who is evicted and nominated every week you can make judgements on who is the least likely to be evicted / your biggest threat. I see nothing wrong with that.

Voting strategically does make the nominations show boring though – thankfully people like Bridgitte will never catch on and we’ll get dumb answers from her every week until her immature and unadjusted ass is kicked out of the place.

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