BIG Brother has declared game on for 2013, recruiting Channel 9 favourite Shelley Craft to reintroduce a weekly showdown games night.
Craft, 37, will head straight off The Block: Sky High presenting duties to host Saturday Showdown for the first four weeks of Big Brother, which starts on Monday, July 29.
Saturday Showdown, with commentary and light-hearted analysis from Mike Goldman and Michael Beveridge, will see housemates compete for riches and favour.
Craft is revelling in the chance to join the Big Brother juggernaut and pitch curve balls to contestants: "Results and rewards from the showdown will have something to do with making them feel there's a bit of a hierarchy in the house."
Until now, previous games nights have rewarded winners, but never had outcomes which directly affected their time in the house.
The showdowns will form an integral part of the much-publicised but carefully-guarded Big Brother "twist" which is this season's theme.
Craft admits she has no illusions she'd last as a Big Brother contestant herself.
"Not a chance. I like my own space," she says.
"I'd find it impossible to just get on with my day without wondering who was watching and listening."
With this year's housemates now in lockdown, Big Brother will break his silence this morning, issuing a "statement" long on ambiguity but short on specific detail about the twist.
It says 2013 will be lucky for some, but hints that the twist will be all about deprivation and reward, haves and have-nots.
Viewers will meet 12 housemates when the show launches but from the outset there "will be division in the house, as some will be in and some will be halfway out".
Big Brother poses the question: "What is it like to live on handouts from the wealthy? Big Brother has decided it's time to find out."
