Activities following the games focus on the ongoing dramas. Tilli seems to be moving on David, despite his sexuality, causing friction with Camilla who's jealous. She's has put too much time in with David and it appears to have been a bad move. Michael and Krystal continue to flirt, and with some bed swapping they end up in bed together. Karen gets to look on motherly. To finish the week's task the housemates answer questions about each other, with most taking the third question, worth more points but with the risk of being shocked for getting it wrong. The chores, assigned by Gaelan, prove to be a bit of an issue when Camilla tries to clear the dinner plates but is told off by Anna. Anna then runs into conflict with the rest of the housemates over wanting oats for breakfast.
29 April 2006
Because of the odd numbers, Camilla doesn't get picked for a team and is given a direct pass to the second round. Krystal and Karen are team captains because they were the first two out of bed. The theme this week is Cavemen and the housemates get to bash each other with clubs, drive around in a Flintstones type car, and throw spears at Ashley's bum, and then in the final round Gaelan and Katie had to knock the head off each other's hat with a big stick. Katie gets the first blow in but Gaelan wins and takes his opponent into the Rewards Room.
28 April 2006
Karen's photos are still missing from last night and they've narrowed it down to the people who went to the toilet during dinner, which includes Michael. Will they realise it's a mole?
Dino thinks that Gaelan and Tilli have a good chance at winning. I realise I don't know who Tilli is! I may have at times got her confused with Claire. The lineup task has actually had an immediate result today with the five lined up as the most lazy (Jaimie, John, Elise, Camilla, and Katie) given the task to clean the house.
The housemates, well at least Michael and Dino, are getting a bit annoyed with Camilla which could hurt her in the coming housemate eviction. Ash meanwhile is impressing on the BBQ which will help him.
Elise feels overwhelmed about not fitting in or being able to be herself, and is the first to really crack it in this house this year.
Babies are created by combining features of housemates and they then need to guess who the parents are. Part of this is to give a clue to the Krystal and Karen combination, but no one clues into it.
Tilli takes advantage of David by giving him a kiss, but then gets worries she's upset Camilla.
Katie and Jaimie get close to nomination talk, even realising that they probably shouldn't be. Katie shows great intuition by picking Michael as a mole, something that Jaimie agrees with once it's pointed out.
27 April 2006
Last night there were tears, there were hugs, and there was yelling at the TV to get off the dialup competitions: the answer's DAILY, we get it, now get back to the housemates. David has come out in what was apparently the 'best coming out speech ever'. They didn't replay it, but it may feature in today's daily show, or be transcribed somewhere on the blogosphere. It's seems to have had a pretty typical reaction: the girls are all over him with questions, the guys have not much more than a word or two to say. Jaimie scores some respect by being the only guy I saw with anything intelligent to say on it and being the least obviously phased by it of all the male housemates. Camila is shaken by it, but is very understanding and is doing a lot of talking with him. David explains he's doing it for all the gay country boys, and especially those who can't live with it. He even, in a very gutsy move, admits he has been in a position of not wanting to live with it. David opens up about who he fancies in the house (the dark haired boys basically) and shows his previously hidden photos to the girls. He describes how hard it was for him not being able to join in conversations because he was trying to keep a secret. It's the best up-late since Merlin fought Paul two years ago, and it's also great television for breaking down boundaries and misconceptions and showing. Unfortunately it's all happening late at night when few are watching. More people need to see what coming out is like and I hope they get the chance. Go David!
26 April 2006
As I probably won't get to see today's episode of Big Brother until tomorrow, here's a more reflective post instead. So far not many of the housemates have been given a chance to make their impact. The producers are focusing on three/four main people who are closely related to the 'story' they want to tell, rather than giving us a look at the natural status of the household. We've see lots of Michael because he's the insider, lots of David because of the secret in his closest, and lots of Krystal/Karen as they hide their relationship. Almost everyone else has been shown in relation to these three plots or not at all, with the only real exception being Jaimie. People in the house seem to dislike Anna, but we've barely seen her. Dino, John and Ashley have made cameo appearances, Gaylen gets a bit more screen time but only because his bed was wet by the Insider. Camilla is being set up for rejection with David, which could make David seem cruel for leading her on. (Actually I wonder if David realises he's not in 'Playing it Straight'?). Claire got screen time for incorrectly picking the relationship, in turn giving Elise some presence, and I'm sure that bleached orange woman is in there too somewhere. She'd be hard to miss since she probably glows in the dark. Hopefully the series will progress past these pre-planned storylines and be allowed to develop more organically and let us see more of the other housemates.
Update: I just received my Big Brother update email which leads with a story about the David being openly gay but in the closet in the house. No surprise that he's gay given the picture in DNA magazine circulating the web, nor given the 'I'm hiding a secret' discussion he had with Big Brother yesterday, and did you notice that in his introduction video on Sunday he didn't specify what sex his partner should be? What this email has me thinking is though that the daily show producers thought that being explicit about what the secret was, was inappropriate for the 7:00 timeslot. What!?! The show's had openly gay men and bisexual women on it before and I don't recall that only being mentioned in the later shows. The tagline "some of the housemates share the same secret" leads me to believe that there's at least a few other closest cases to be found, but would they really go so far as to avoid mentioning sexuality?
25 April 2006
Michael is assigned the role of the insider by the viewers. He can't really refuse though because he'll be evicted if he does. His first task is to pour water into two fellow housemate's bed. He get this half right, not emptying the bottle and choosing the only bed in the house (Gaylen's) that only has one person sleeping in it. He does better on his broader mission of trying to find out the relationship, getting closer than he realises by discussing it with Krystal. Michael then tries to get some opinions from David, who has his own thing to hide. David quotes the Transformers theme song which I give him points for. There's in show reference to him having a secret yet to reveal, "it's huge". He feels close to Camilla, his bedmate, but she likes him too bit more than he can reciprocate. She's all touchy-feely but may get hurt when David's secret comes out.
24 April 2006
David's modelling comes out (and according to the Herald Sun there's something else that needs to come out about David) and all the girls agree that he's really pretty, including Camilla whose hand gets up close and personal with his inner thigh. Jaime is getting off to a bad start getting fines for talking without his microphone and joking about the rules. In the diary room he tells BB about the girls he was just talking with, and is fond of Krystal (although he doesn't know her name), but thinks Anna is very superficial. Or as he describes later "sexy but unattractive" a thought that John agrees on.
Karen seems more like the daughter when Krystal asks her to eat some breakfast but they are so far keeping it "mum".
David's the first up on the first morning by far and spends almost two hours forlornly waiting for someone else to get out of bed. Anna is the first to do so. In the diary room, Claire seems quite ocker as she voices her theory that Michael and Elise are a couple. She also discusses her evidence more clearly with John and has a convincing case actually.
In discussion with Karen, David's very obviously playing the pronoun game and his secret photo of two men on horseback makes it glaring. I wonder how they plan to reveal this?
23 April 2006
The new housemates have entered the house for the sixth series of Big Brother.
- Michael, comes across as gay, given his comments about women, and he's very polished and muscular, but he cheats on women, cocky
- Camilla things she's loud and messy and a chronic cheater
- Gaelan, he thinks he's sexy but there's something were off putting about him, very overtanned orange. His idol's Beckham and I can see
- Oh but then wew Katie, whose bleached blond hair shows off her extra orange skankiness
- Hippy Karen is the oldest of the housemates but I don't think she's motherly enough for the others to want to keep her in there.
- David, is one hell of a hot farmer (unlike Glen or Marty) I wonder if country bumpkin will appear
- Tilli, another ballerina, infectious but I wonder is she'll fall to trap of BB's first one?
- Dino is so my type it's not funny so he's won me over already
- John puts too much time into his hair and has an off-putting swarmy attitude and confidence
- Anna comes across as the nicest, despite her looks she doesn't seem too full of herself
- Ashley, ah here's the yobbo, the V8 loving ten pin bowling, tough guy
- Elise, ambitious, but as an only child may have trouble in the house
- Claire the straight edge, netballer cat handler, will she open up in the house?
- Krystal favourite feature is her new boobs and she wants to get in to tv and movies, please
- Jamie, big and muscular, but bored with him already
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