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Tully Smyth on this season’s Big Brother housemates: ‘Get out of my house!’
Tully evicted
SHE was one of last season’s most polarising housemates, and now Tully Smyth has weighed in on this year’s crop of Big Brother contestants.
The TV personality and Young Blood Runs blogger has been keeping a very close eye on Nine’s new season and, on the eve of the third live eviction, she has shared her thoughts exclusively with news.com.au.
In Tully’s words ...
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
I should have known it would be impossible to avoid watching Big Brother this year. As soon as the promos started up, the anxiety kicked in. Simply hearing the voice of Big Brother gave me a nauseas feeling in my stomach so why would I put myself through that every night of the week?
As launch night drew near I began to get more and more nervous. I even had some horrible nightmare where I was running around the eviction auditorium but no one — not the fans or the Big Brother crew — could see or hear me. I was invisible! Irrelevant! My time was up and I was going to fade back into obscurity.
Last year’s BB contestants Anthony Drew, Tully Smyth, Tim Dormer and Tahan Lew Fatt. Source: Supplied
Eventually, Tim convinced me to come around to his place for pizza and wine with Jade and we all watched it together. We cried. We laughed. We got bitter and bitchy.
“GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!”
“You can’t talk to Big Brother like that!”
“Why the hell didn’t we get a sauna?”
However as the credits started rolling, I breathed out a sigh of relief that I had been holding in, if I’m being honest.
It was going to be fine. This was fine. It wasn’t our house, our housemates. That wasn’t my bedroom. And although he was still our Big Brother (and probably always will be — love you Leon) this was a different show and it didn’t change our experience or what it meant to us.
Stereotypical Aussies? This season’s crop of BB housemates. Source: Supplied
THE HOUSEMATES
My initial thoughts on the new lot of housemates was that they seemed a little ‘Channel 10 Big Brother’. By that — I mean they were almost caricatures of many of those typical Australian stereotypes.
The funny but self-deprecating gay guy.
The blonde bimbo.
The gym junkie.
Call me biased but our lot of housemates felt more genuine, almost naive. We were real people with boring jobs and an eagerness to get stuck in. These guys seemed too clued up. Too ready to play the game. Too ready to jump each other at the jugular.
That being said, on the eve of the second eviction there are some that are starting to grow on me more than others. Sandra seems really genuine and down to earth.
Sunday night’s episode saw her upset because she didn’t feel special or pretty on party night in the house. I could not tell you how many similar nights we had last year.
Dress-ups: The Big Brother housemates party up a storm. Source: Channel 9
During lockdown, all our measurements are taken and on various nights in the house, the production team will provide outfits or costumes. The amount of times I’d get to the clothing rack only to discover Jade and Tahan had the ‘sexy’ dresses and I was to wear something that resembled a long sack ... or poor Mikkayala trying to fit into certain outfits that were too small.
The Big Brother house amplifies every single little thing you know or think about yourself.
Forget the actual mirrors, you have so much down time to think, reflect and fester on your own thoughts, you drive yourself crazy.
We called it ‘free therapy’ but it can also be quite confronting. It’s also been interesting, as an ex-housemate, to see which housemates are getting most of the airtime.
Skye seems to be an early favourite to take it home (according to both the public and, seemingly, the producers) while Ryan who I thought would be a crowd pleaser is struggling to get a word in.
David, who was painted as the bumbling buffoon with zero lady skills in the early days is now getting a makeover in more ways than one and Jake seems to have fallen by the wayside again despite appearing to be quite popular with the other housemates.
Someone I do think is very interesting and who we haven’t seen enough of yet is Priya. Up there with one of the most intelligent in the house, not only is she thinking strategically, she also has some very interesting and thoughtful insights about the other housemates and relationships in the house.
Gemma was the first housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house. Source: News Corp Australia
- 3 hours ago September 30, 2014 3:46PM
Tully evicted
SHE was one of last season’s most polarising housemates, and now Tully Smyth has weighed in on this year’s crop of Big Brother contestants.
The TV personality and Young Blood Runs blogger has been keeping a very close eye on Nine’s new season and, on the eve of the third live eviction, she has shared her thoughts exclusively with news.com.au.
In Tully’s words ...
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
I should have known it would be impossible to avoid watching Big Brother this year. As soon as the promos started up, the anxiety kicked in. Simply hearing the voice of Big Brother gave me a nauseas feeling in my stomach so why would I put myself through that every night of the week?
As launch night drew near I began to get more and more nervous. I even had some horrible nightmare where I was running around the eviction auditorium but no one — not the fans or the Big Brother crew — could see or hear me. I was invisible! Irrelevant! My time was up and I was going to fade back into obscurity.
Last year’s BB contestants Anthony Drew, Tully Smyth, Tim Dormer and Tahan Lew Fatt. Source: Supplied
Eventually, Tim convinced me to come around to his place for pizza and wine with Jade and we all watched it together. We cried. We laughed. We got bitter and bitchy.
“GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!”
“You can’t talk to Big Brother like that!”
“Why the hell didn’t we get a sauna?”
However as the credits started rolling, I breathed out a sigh of relief that I had been holding in, if I’m being honest.
It was going to be fine. This was fine. It wasn’t our house, our housemates. That wasn’t my bedroom. And although he was still our Big Brother (and probably always will be — love you Leon) this was a different show and it didn’t change our experience or what it meant to us.
Stereotypical Aussies? This season’s crop of BB housemates. Source: Supplied
THE HOUSEMATES
My initial thoughts on the new lot of housemates was that they seemed a little ‘Channel 10 Big Brother’. By that — I mean they were almost caricatures of many of those typical Australian stereotypes.
The funny but self-deprecating gay guy.
The blonde bimbo.
The gym junkie.
Call me biased but our lot of housemates felt more genuine, almost naive. We were real people with boring jobs and an eagerness to get stuck in. These guys seemed too clued up. Too ready to play the game. Too ready to jump each other at the jugular.
That being said, on the eve of the second eviction there are some that are starting to grow on me more than others. Sandra seems really genuine and down to earth.
Sunday night’s episode saw her upset because she didn’t feel special or pretty on party night in the house. I could not tell you how many similar nights we had last year.
Dress-ups: The Big Brother housemates party up a storm. Source: Channel 9
During lockdown, all our measurements are taken and on various nights in the house, the production team will provide outfits or costumes. The amount of times I’d get to the clothing rack only to discover Jade and Tahan had the ‘sexy’ dresses and I was to wear something that resembled a long sack ... or poor Mikkayala trying to fit into certain outfits that were too small.
The Big Brother house amplifies every single little thing you know or think about yourself.
Forget the actual mirrors, you have so much down time to think, reflect and fester on your own thoughts, you drive yourself crazy.
We called it ‘free therapy’ but it can also be quite confronting. It’s also been interesting, as an ex-housemate, to see which housemates are getting most of the airtime.
Skye seems to be an early favourite to take it home (according to both the public and, seemingly, the producers) while Ryan who I thought would be a crowd pleaser is struggling to get a word in.
David, who was painted as the bumbling buffoon with zero lady skills in the early days is now getting a makeover in more ways than one and Jake seems to have fallen by the wayside again despite appearing to be quite popular with the other housemates.
Someone I do think is very interesting and who we haven’t seen enough of yet is Priya. Up there with one of the most intelligent in the house, not only is she thinking strategically, she also has some very interesting and thoughtful insights about the other housemates and relationships in the house.
Gemma was the first housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house. Source: News Corp Australia
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