Category: News and goss

Update: This afternoon BB Confidential was scrubbed from Wednesday night TV guides and appears to have been moved to 8pm Thursdays on Channel Nine (8.30pm for regional viewers on NBN). This means the show will be classified PG.

Big Brother’s new late-night show, Big Brother Confidential premiered last night to just 387,000 viewers, marking the least-watched Big Brother show this season.

The show – which airs at the later timeslot of 10pm and is pitched as offering “late-night headlines, unseen action, and talking points from the Big Brother house” – included rehashes of previously seen footage from the Daily Show and such key highlights as a boob grab, several fart jokes and Bradley doing a strip tease.

There were no gratuitous and unexplained shower scene montages circa Big Brother Uncut of years gone by, with the show still fitting comfortably within Nine’s “family friendly” brief.

This week’s episode was rated M, however advance guides for next week suggest subsequent episodes will be rated MA15+ and may include more adult content.

A Behind Big Brother tradition returns! Our talented forum users have been busy creating Big Brother Photoshop images to share, because this site is not just about revealing housemates secrets (also because it’s a slow news day, woo!) We’ll have more Photoshops as they’re created later in the season.

Pawlini starts us off with a role Michael(‘s hair) was born to play…

Unhappy about Gretel not returning to host? Doublethink reminds you it could be worse…

up_all_night reveals a yet to be announced secret of Bradley’s…

Coight thinks Sarah belongs on another reality TV show…

Another gem from up_all_night – could Ryan be the next Zoolander?

Yet more Photoshop goodness from up_all_night. Could Ray have been a stunt double during this infamous scene from the movie American Psycho?

Caspersmum says if the hair matches…

Mr Stickyfingers believes Charne could be the Queen of Hearts.

Another from Mr Stickyfingers, here’s the Big Brother house as the cast from Hairspray…

up_all_night thinks Bradley may have taken his Batman birthday party a little too seriously…

Mr Stickyfingers suggests Zoe may have missed her calling…

Check out more Photoshop fun on our forums.

Another day another housemate secret is cracked.

Behind Big Brother user Sledge has found Angela Murray’s profile on the Queensland Weightlifting Association website where she is listed as being part of the ‘Cougars’ club.

The association’s June 2006 magazine includes a photo of Angie with the Under 16s weightlifting group alongside some info on her performance. The young Angie is sporting brown hair.

We don’t speak weightlifter so we don’t know what terms like “clean and jerk” actually mean, but here’s a snippet from the magazine anyway!

“Angela Murray in the 48kg category came out strong, powering her first snatch of 25kg. Her third attempt was an excellent fight to achieve 32kg. She made her first two clean and jerks look easy, but missed the clean on her third attempt and ended up with a 32kg snatch and a 40kg clean and jerk with a total of 72kg placing 2nd in both Under 16 and Under 18 in the 48kg division.”

Did Sarah look familiar when entering the house? You may have seen her butt-naked in the middle of Sydney a few years back.

The now-housemate took part in an Animal Liberation anti fur protest in 2008, where she posed nude with a group as part of a campaign to highlight animal cruelty within the fur industry.

One of the secrets explained on Sunday night was “I was a nude protestor”. No guesses on who it is now.

The protest campaign was specifically set up to to raise awareness during the Beijing Olympics and protests were held around the Chinese embassy as China exports a large number of fur products.

The story was covered by the Associated Press and published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Sina, a Chinese newspaper.

Thanks to the many fans who sent us this story!

Update: We had a really nice photo of Layla on this page but the photographer then sent us an invoice for photo use – which we laughed at – but have decided to take the photo down.

Oops – first it was revealed George is the millionaire, now another big housemate secret has spilled.

At the beginning of the season audiences were told that one housemate was related to royalty.

Behind Big Brother user Taylor did some sleuthing with Layla’s full name (which was revealed in a Sunday Telegraph article today) and found “Layla Joyce Subritzky” born 1988 in Carlisle, England listed on a website called the Subritzky files.

The site details the heritage of the Subritzky family tree and sure enough Layla’s relatives have distant connections with John III Sobieski, a former monarch of Poland.

It’s a bit of a long read but the page describes how Layla’s relatives emigrated to New Zealand and became a high profile family in the colonial days. Layla has previously said she is half Maori.

After tonight’s live show Big Brother will swap the secrets task around and boys will be required to guess the girls’ secrets.

And on a side note – a modelling profile page for Layla was also discovered. It was taken down within an hour of the Sunday Telegraph article being published, but luckily Google has saved a copy.

Turns out Sonia Kruger may just be Big Brother’s biggest fan.

Behind Big Brother supporter CJ has uncovered an internet radio interview he did with Sonia in 2008 where she is described by former Dancing with the Stars colleague Todd McKenney as “Australia’s biggest Big Brother nut”.

When asked about her thoughts over Big Brother coming to an end, Sonia says “I have gotten into a bit of a routine watching the daily show and I like a bit of Friday Night Live with Mike Goldman … but it’s the end of an era.”

“Maybe Big Brother just needs a rest from TV land” she adds.

When CJ states that Channel Nine is the only network with a genuine interest in reviving the show, Sonia says “I think there might be some truth to that, actually”.

Todd McKenney continues “we’re trying to start a rumour that Sonia’s actually hosting the Channel Seven version it’s called Big Sister”.

Both personalities were contracted to Channel Seven at the time. The interview was during “CJ Live”, a segment on the our former Behind Big Brother Radio show (here’s a very old archive of it).

Listen to the whole interview here: