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Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

gardenman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:54:09 GMT

And the lovely folks at CBS have just issued a press release describing the new twist (or should I say twists?) this season. The theme this year is "BB Takeover" and each week a guest, or guests (former houseguests in all likelihood) will appear on the show (in the house?) each week to announce a new twist.

Apparently we're getting a new twist every week this year. I'm guessing we'll find out that the first two "guests" are actually houseguests in addition to everything else. That would give us the sixteen houseguests we need for the season. The good news is they're saying nothing about the stupid "Battle of the Block" so that may be done.

They could just revamp each twist from previous seasons and use a houseguest from those earlier seasons to announce the new twist. We know there are a couple of twins in the new cast, so we could even see the twin twist come back into play. It could be interesting. Now I've got to try and remeber what all of the twists have been. There was America's Player with Eric Stein. We had the Saboteur with Annie. We had the coaches twist. We had the cliques, Pandora's Box, Team America, Coup d'Etat, Project DNA, Rivals, and more. That could all be interesting. We'lll have to see how it all plays out.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

javala — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:59:19 GMT

Meet The New Cast Of Big Brother

http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_brother/photos/1004298/meet-the-new-cast-of-big-brother-/

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

gardenman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:17:29 GMT

Big Brother Network (bigbrothernetwork.com) now has their videos of the houseguests up for those who don't subscribe to the live feeds and want to see the houseguests on video. I'm watching Audrey's interview right now. The interviewer didn't ask Audrey about being transgender (because the story didn't break until after his interview) and it's possible that CBS didn't know (or wanted it kept quiet) as they (or possibly Audrey) cancelled her later press meetings. She certainly doesn't give any clue that she was transgender as she joked about all of the girls (including her) getting on the same cycle.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

lainey1 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:26:36 GMT

@javala wrote:
Meet The New Cast Of Big Brother
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_brother/photos/1004298/meet-the-new-cast-of-big-brother-/

Thanks for posting the link to the cast. What I don't like about this year, is again, they have a very young group of people ages 22-33. I guess maybe the majority of people watching BB must fall into this age group?

I like it better when they have a few older people on too...I guess I can relate more to them. Maybe I'm getting too old to watch this anymore.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

javala — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:27:03 GMT

In this metro world we live in I am sure some will want to dateTrans but would it be fair to deceive someone to be with Trans...

Big Brother should be interesting to see how this experiment works out

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

gardenman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:27:46 GMT

Austin is a 6' 5" 240 lb wrestler with long hair and tattoos. He's planning to tell the houseguests that he was forced to retire due to injuries (he's still wrestling) and that he'll try to be nice and friendly in the house. He's afraid the others will view him as a big threat (duh!) and want him out, so he wants to win HOH the first week. Good luck with that, the first HOH comp is typically a hang on longest type comp and being 240 lbs. he's going to have a tough time on those types of comps. I don't see Austin lasting long. I think he's a little over confident and cocky. He's likely to have to win a few early HOH's or POV's to stay in the game long.

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lory — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:32:48 GMT

So not a fan of twists. Just let the houseguests scheme and manipulate on their own!

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lainey1 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:34:30 GMT

With the twists we are probably guaranteed to see Jesse and Frankie again.....yuck!

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123SuzyQ123 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:37:22 GMT

Jace reminds me of the cute guy from last season - can't think of his name right now.

Looks like a good bunch, but I agree with everyone who says they wish we would have a couple of older folks in there.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

javala — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:45:26 GMT

I agree if would have been more balanced to have a few season folks....

I don't why but it is not until you get older do you understand some things, that some how can never receive or penetrate our psychi to be able to see in the scheme of things, to know and able to see what is just around the corner.... It is a whole new awareness that younger people seldom pick up on....

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

gardenman — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:46:38 GMT

The hot rumor right now is that Frank (from BB 14, the curly haired protege of Boogie) and a former female houseguest will be the two dropped back into the house on day one to round out the cast. If Frank (son of a pro wrestler) is dropped back in that could complicate life for Austin rather dramatically. Frank likely knows that Austin is still wrestling and since Austin's whole gameplan is to fool the houseguests into him being retired, things could go badly for Austin very quickly.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:51:11 GMT

lainey, don't you know that's the group everything is geared to? Most of the TV shows, etc.

The irony of it is many of these people have jobs where they don't make that much money and/or live at home or with other people. Many are still starting out or having a hard time getting started (life is not the bed of roses they were taught in college). Ha!

They gear these dumb commercials toward this group and they don't have the money to buy this junk.

I'm almost 70 years old. I am not dead. I buy stuff and the last time I checked I go to the store and buy toilet paper, etc. Yet these dumb shows are geared toward young people.

I've never seen more than a few minutes of different years. I do remember that they've had some 'older' people in there over the years.

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sassy68 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:52:59 GMT

Gardenman, Julie announced on The Talk that the transgender issue was suppose to be kept quiet until the show started and someone leaked it to TMZ. Audrey is suppose to tell the other houseguests when they all introduce themselves on the first night.

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I like celery — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:56:53 GMT

gardenman, I think you had mentioned in another thread how the Live Feeds were going to be having an interview with Derrick? Did that happen, and if so, was anything interesting mentioned? Also, any mention of Cody or Victoria? TIA

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:58:15 GMT

That's exactly what I heard (same as sassy) today on EW Radio. I saw the transgender woman interviewed by the same guy who's on one of those CBS (of course with Julie Chin, she is all about CBS) Entertainment shows.

The person I saw was beautiful, had a normal female voice and there was no way you'd know she started life as a male. My guess is that's how she was picked. I've heard all of this stuff about her wanting to be on the show for years, etc. I'm sorry but I think that's bunk. I think she was picked because she is beautiful and not at all the least bit masculine (like Caitlyn Jenner).

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gardenman — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:29 GMT

Historically Big Brother has been pretty good casting some older players. We had Renny (from New Orleans) a few years back and then Jerry, but in the last few years, they've aimed for the young and pretty casts. Having a younger, fitter cast makes it easier to come up with fair (or fairer) competitions. Many of the BB comps are pretty physically intense and even the kids tend to come out pretty banged up.

Re: Big Brother 17 Preseason News and Spoilers!!!!

gardenman — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:04:36 GMT

@I like celery wrote:
gardenman, I think you had mentioned in another thread how the Live Feeds were going to be having an interview with Derrick? Did that happen, and if so, was anything interesting mentioned? Also, any mention of Cody or Victoria? TIA

The interview was more of an online chat and it was chaos. Derrick didn't really say much. He did say that he still talked to Cody (I think every day, but it's been a while since I read the chat.) I don't remember him saying anything about Victoria, but he could have. It was pretty chaotic with hundreds/thousands of posters firing questions in. I'm not sure Derrick ever says anything all that interesting. He likes to defuse interesting things. That's largley why last year was so boring. Whenever tension would arise, there would be Derrick trying to defuse it.

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I like celery — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:34:38 GMT

@gardenman wrote:
@I like celery wrote:
gardenman, I think you had mentioned in another thread how the Live Feeds were going to be having an interview with Derrick? Did that happen, and if so, was anything interesting mentioned? Also, any mention of Cody or Victoria? TIA
The interview was more of an online chat and it was chaos. Derrick didn't really say much. He did say that he still talked to Cody (I think every day, but it's been a while since I read the chat.) I don't remember him saying anything about Victoria, but he could have. It was pretty chaotic with hundreds/thousands of posters firing questions in. I'm not sure Derrick ever says anything all that interesting. He likes to defuse interesting things. That's largley why last year was so boring. Whenever tension would arise, there would be Derrick trying to defuse it.

Thanks. Wasn't sure what all would be asked or mentioned.

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LoriLori — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:36:59 GMT

Oh, here we go again with Grodner and her wrestler fetish. I wouldn't have believed she had the power to exert that much influence on casting but watching Unreal has provided a glimpse of just how much power an EP that produces consistently good ratings can wield (and how desperate they can get to maintain those ratings).

I hope Frank Eudy's hygiene has improved since his season. He grossed me out just looking at him, especially when he was The Carrot. That guy's name is an onomatoopeia. Or not, if he's literally cleaned up his act, and I hope he has for the sake of the other houseguests.

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MissLynn — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:19:04 GMT

Well, I'm rooting for Austin anyway. He seemed to be one of the favorites in the Live Feed chat yesterday. And there was some chat about Audrey possibly being transgender amongst the chatters...someone pointed out that she had large hands.