News: Viewers fume over Ten’s ‘dirty’ Big Brother ‘trick’

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Not happy about Jane...

Sure enough, during Monday’s episode of Big Brother, Jane was revealed as the public’s choice to enter the show.

Now an official housemate, Jane’s full bio was added to Big Brother website – with one important piece of information that had so far not been publicly available.

The Victorian retiree describes herself as “an avid and passionate Donald Trump lover.” It was information that some viewers thought could have been useful on Sunday while they were casting their votes.

 
Although. Between this making headlines, as well as overwhelmingly negative comments on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in response to to the video of Colin crying (people saying BB was out of line for such a task and claiming bullying…? 🤔). We’re three days in and the show is certainly receiving the controversy it said it wouldn’t avoid…
 
the Theorist said:
Although. Between this making headlines, as well as overwhelmingly negative comments on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in response to to the video of Colin crying (people saying BB was out of line for such a task and claiming bullying…? 🤔). We’re three days in and the show is certainly receiving the controversy it said it wouldn’t avoid…
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Mum didn't like that intelligence task, she thought it was mean. Also reminds me of the eviction from Nine's 2014 BBAU which left Gemma in tears.
 
Surly said:
Mum didn't like that intelligence task, she thought it was mean. Also reminds me of the eviction from Nine's 2014 BBAU which left Gemma in tears.
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I’m curious what the response to this task is like outside of Australia. The “Most to Least” thing is almost like a staple of Big Brother around the world - the BBUK does it and, IIRC, it’s even been done a bit on BBUS and BBCAN. (Can anyone vouch for that?)

It’s also definitely not the first time BBAU has done it. BBAU 2013, 2008 and I think 2007 or 2006 are some immediate examples off the top of my head.

Does the audience have the same reaction overseas or (and I ask this respectfully and rhetorically) is Australia just too sensitive?
 
the Theorist said:
I’m curious what the response to this task is like outside of Australia. The “Most to Least” thing is almost like a staple of Big Brother around the world - the BBUK does it and, IIRC, it’s even been done a bit on BBUS and BBCAN. (Can anyone vouch for that?)

It’s also definitely not the first time BBAU has done it. BBAU 2013, 2008 and I think 2007 or 2006 are some immediate examples off the top of my head.

Does the audience have the same reaction overseas or (and I ask this respectfully and rhetorically) is Australia just too sensitive?
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I am not sure about overseas but here in Australia since the 2000s there has been a big push to stamp out bullying, and treat it seriously.
 
Kingston said:
I’m honestly shocked that people aren’t picking up on how the task is clearly manipulative. It’s the type of stunt I’d expect them to pull mid series to stir shit up not day 2.
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I think I literally heard Colin (least intelligent housemate!) point out how it is meant to be manipulative on the live feed yesterday
 
BB101 said:
I think I literally heard Colin (least intelligent housemate!) point out how it is meant to be manipulative on the live feed yesterday
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Coming from him I’m shocked. I’ve yet to see anything they’ve done so far that isn’t. Surely the 13th HM vote would have covered the opening night twist “requirement” if they felt they needed something to open the series with.
 
Watching the live stream you could hear the most and least housemates being called to the diary room to be farmed for footage after each lineup. Colin in particular knows the deal with the cameras and hammed it up.
 
Tim said:
Watching the live stream you could hear the most and least housemates being called to the diary room to be farmed for footage after each lineup. Colin in particular knows the deal with the cameras and hammed it up.
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Thank you. I get the feeling the live stream (and our Fan Diary) are gonna become receipts for the Daily Show edits this season.

Colin is completely there for the cameras and popularity.
 
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IIRC, it’s even been done a bit on BBUS and BBCAN. (Can anyone vouch for that?)
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Sort of yeah.. while I don't recall a proper ranking, there have been tasks where housemates either had to assign labels to fellow houseguests (e.g. Wheel of First Impressions, the first HoH in BBCAN6 that was adapted from Love Island) or guess how the public voted (with one competition in the US literally being called "Most Likely...", Canada had one on the season with Tim).


Does the audience have the same reaction overseas or (and I ask this respectfully and rhetorically) is Australia just too sensitive?
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Sometimes you would find people accusing production somewhat of bullying.. the Roxanne Pallet incident would come to my mind, where some people claimed that production is as bad as Roxy for not showing to the house that Ryan was only shadow-boxing and not actually punching her in the gut.

But I don't recall one of the ranking tasks being labelled bullying. Sometimes I've seen a rare voice that called some of the categories mean-spirited. But overall, I feel like the sentiment towards the task is quite the contrary, a lot of people seem to love that task. I think the British audience, at least the one that grew up with the Channel 5 version, loves it because it ignites drama. I'm a Celebrity in Germany adopted the task for this very reason and Banijay developed a new reality show where the ranking task is a central format point of each episode.

There is even (I think originally Japanese) TV show, which became quite popular in the Netherlands, which is basically the ranking task with celebrities as its own show.


Some Big Brother versions moved away from questions like "Most/Least attractive", but if anything more because of anticipated audience reactions and not so much actual audience reactions. Part of it might be motivated by the type of people that gets cast. If you're focused on influencers and celebrities, questions like "
 
Surly said:
I am not sure about overseas but here in Australia since the 2000s there has been a big push to stamp out bullying, and treat it seriously.
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Yep. With that in mind, I'm glad Conor is in the house now rather than years ago. Can you imagine him in the house alongside the likes of Saxon Pepper, Rory, Nobbi, Dean and Nelson?
 
The Rusty Viewer said:
What has someone's political POV got to do with anything? Who cares? So if she supported Kamala that would be ok? When has this ever been a problem on any reality show in the past?
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Would you be okay with them casting someone who is a Hitler fanatic?

She's on the wrong side of history, endorsing someone who leads on a platform of hate and division. I'm not suggested she should be excluded from going in, because it's rarely so black and white, but people are equally within their right to take issue with it.
 
imsocold said:
Would you be okay with them casting someone who is a Hitler fanatic?

She's on the wrong side of history, endorsing someone who leads on a platform of hate and division. I'm not suggested she should be excluded from going in, because it's rarely so black and white, but people are equally within their right to take issue with it.
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False narrative, apples and oranges. Definitely not true at all.
 
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