Some of you might be interested in these videos, if you haven’t seen them already.
Interesting tidbits of information shared between trivia questions, with a really broad mix of previous HMs - Brodie from 2002, Tobin (Vanessa) from CBB, Reggie from 2003, Paul and Trevor from 2004, Anna and David from 2006, Bodie and Aleisha from 2007, Benjamin from 2012, Jason from 2014 and Allan, Soobong, Talia, Danni, Zoe, Garth, Hannah, Sarah, Kieran and Mat from 2020.
Some takeaways:
- Kieran confirms he never watched Big Brother prior to 2012 (side note: in another podcast he mentions he barely watched 2013-2014 too, which just infuriates me that the show hyped up his “superfan” claims so much when he’s never even watched a full season)
- Allan, Kieran and Hannah talk about filming the exit interviews in the carpark for over 90 minutes (as discussed in another thread here)
- Jason only keeps in contact with Aisha from his season
- Garth claims the infamous “group chat leakers” / media insiders were Allan, Angela and Kieran
- Kieran and Hannah mention that their unseen kiss occurred during the box challenge (but doesn’t this contradict a previous report of how it happened?)
- Tobin talks briefly about his time on Celebrity Big Brother in 2002
- Sarah believes Mat and Dan are the only 2020 HMs who were not portrayed accurately on the show
- Kieran tried to find out who came second and third runners-up after the Finale but apparently nobody was told, which makes me doubt Mat ever saw it too
- Danni supports the theory (which I’ve been saying for a while now) that the show didn’t do enough to promote the strategy element of the new format to Australian audiences and didn’t encourage them to vote with that in mind, which contradicts the type of show they’re trying to produce - in my opinion, the way the entire season was edited compared to the narrative in the final two episodes are completely hypocritical of each other
- Paul brings up the twists that allowed Angela and Sophie to return after being evicted - this is a common talking point which I’ve seen discussed on multiple podcasts now, including Elder Sibling and Eye On BB (the general consensus seems to be that this was a blatant unfair advantage and these fake evictions should have been handled very differently, as they were in past years)
That YouTube account also has a few other video interviews with previous HMs, including Susannah, Tim and several others, which are worth checking out too!