Category: Preseason

Hey you there, get out of the way of those screens – we want to see inside the house!

In a curiously titled interview with BB Executive Producer Alex Mavroidakis posted to the official website today, the most interesting information was actually right behind him – screens in the control room showing this year’s house.

Thanks to some clever sleuthing by our forum users, here’s a match the room to the picture look at the house. Each area of the house is shown in the control room based on colours. For example: all backyard cameras have green text under them.

• 1. Backyard and pool area (screens with green text) – this year’s pool is roughly diamond shaped and sits in the middle of the backyard area. There’s a 360 degree camera on a pole situated in the middle of it. You can see the shape in aerial shots of the renovations.
• 2. Entrance to the house – another shot from the backyard. It is speculated the white arch will be the entryway into the house from outside.
• 3. Kitchen or storage room (screens with turquoise text) – while these shots are not so clear, they look likely to be the kitchen or food store room.
• 4. Lounge area (screens with orange text) – There appears to be lounge furniture in these rooms. The orange camera on the very right could be showing the ‘sin bin’.
• 5. Bedroom (screens with purple text) – Clearly the house bedroom. Under each bed you can see the blue neon lights we previously reported on.

Thanks to marquisite, matts bb and Will.

Now that the housemates for this season are officially in lockdown, rumours are flying on who will be entering the house come Monday week.

Here’s a snapshot of who we’ve heard have made it thus far:

• A female children’s entertainer from Sydney who goes by the pseudonym “Pixie”.
• A 19 year old guy from Brisbane who works at the Royal George Hotel.
• A 26 year old copywriter also from Brisbane. He’s friends with the band The Amity Affliction and has a long term girlfriend.

  Update: This potential housemate broke up with his girlfriend of seven years to go on the show, citing “it’s for her own good”.

• Gold Coast Titans player Greg Bird. While it seems like a long shot, he was spied in later rounds of the audition process where show producers were very keen in him. He’s also conveniently been sidelined out of this weekend’s game with a hamstring injury. Greg’s coach said: “It’s a hamstring strain [for Bird] and very rarely do you get them back within a week.”
• A blonde, female professional athlete from the Gold Coast.
• Less known is an ‘arty hipster’ girl from Sydney who professed “I dont have Facebook, I dont even have an iPhone, I go to libraries to use books”. We’ve heard that Pixie was likely chosen over this other girl.

Have you heard a rumour? Let us know and discuss the latest Big Brother gossip on our forum.

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.