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Post by David Hunter on Jun 1, 2007 10:25:19 GMT
I had a friend who was a closet married homosexual. He was camp as hell and he and his wife ran a tap dancing school!
He was an habitual 'cottager' yet was so fame hungry he was desperate to get on Big Brother. I could never understand it and kept saying, should he be accepted, his entire hidden life would come out in the press. He couldn't see it though. I think he was so in denial and thought his behind-her-back shenanigans were so well covered no one would ever find out.
I can't understand anyone wanting fame this much.
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Post by Rad on Jun 1, 2007 12:35:21 GMT
I believe you get jury service money when you are in BB. Not that I know what jury service money is.
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Post by Essexgirl on Jun 1, 2007 13:13:47 GMT
If I went in the BB house I would have a nervous breakdown within a fortnight (at most). I don't cope well with idiots, I'd hate the lack of privacy or my own space and my mum would discover how much I swear.
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Post by Greg on Jun 1, 2007 21:10:32 GMT
I, like many others, think it would be a laugh and if they approached me in the street would probably say "go on then".
People on Life Itself voted me Most Likely To Go On Big Brother (I also 'won' Biggest Poser - so maybe that says it all). My brothers said they reckon I'd be good for it too and urged me to apply this year, but I didn't. Someone else who has posted in this thread also reckons I should've applied.
I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe because I like the show? I'm reasonably confident in small groups? My dashing good looks? I've not a clue, maybe the Lifers could enlighten me...
As far as the whole 'being on show 24/7' thing goes, that was one of the main reasons I didn't apply. As a person I'm OK with who I am. But as a result I am quite stubborn and would probably be editted badly. And that's what puts me off, being editted to fit into a certain box and get ratings. People say that there's never been a 'proper' gay to be proud of etc. in the house but I think that's due to BB wanting 'a gay' and only showing when they fit into the character BB want. Bascially, I wouldn't want to be a puppet.
I wouldn't get worried about being recognised afterwards, that said I certainly wouldn't 'seek' fame. Famous in a 'people going "oh look it is" at a tube station' way. That's fine and I think I could deal with that. Especially if as now I live in London, if I were to back home to Shropshire I'd be a problem but London has a certain amount of anonymity and indifference I think.
What worry me would be the effect it would have on my career. I'm only a student so my career is non-existent, and maybe that's the point. I'm a media student and the various outlets that that may lead to if I were to follow it might be stifled because I'm 'that one of Big Brother'. But not just in the media, I'm sure it has a knock-on effect in whatever you go on to do, no matter how displaced it is from BB.
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Post by xenomaniac on Jun 1, 2007 21:38:27 GMT
What worry me would be the effect it would have on my career. I'm only a student so my career is non-existent, and maybe that's the point. I'm a media student and the various outlets that that may lead to if I were to follow it might be stifled because I'm 'that one of Big Brother'. But not just in the media, I'm sure it has a knock-on effect in whatever you go on to do, no matter how displaced it is from BB. I wouldn't even consider employing an ex-contestant, even the few I am actually fond of. |
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 1, 2007 21:58:08 GMT
No answer the title of this thread, no FUCKING way!
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Post by pauliepoos on Jun 1, 2007 22:14:47 GMT
. And that's what puts me off, being editted to fit into a certain box and get ratings. People say that there's never been a 'proper' gay to be proud of etc. in the house but I think that's due to BB wanting 'a gay' and only showing when they fit into the character BB want. Other would find enough flaws in your character to dislike you, however "normal" you were. |
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Post by The BBC Insider on Jun 1, 2007 22:17:52 GMT
If you were running a law firm and wanted a hot shot young lawyer to defend a murder suspect and Marco minced his way through the door, would you honestly take him on? I'd barely look at him before sending him on his way. Likewise PJ.
Sunita I would employ because I wouldn't remember her.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jun 1, 2007 22:20:08 GMT
If you were running a law firm and wanted a hot shot young lawyer to defend a murder suspect and Marco minced his way through the door, would you honestly take him on? I'd barely look at him before sending him on his way. Likewise PJ. Sunita I would employ because I wouldn't remember her. So forgettable she doesn't even get a mention? |
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Post by The BBC Insider on Jun 1, 2007 22:25:13 GMT
Exactly!
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Post by Rad on Jun 1, 2007 22:53:04 GMT
Still, rather Marco or PJ as a lawyer than Rapebot off Hollyoaks.
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Post by Gordon on Jun 1, 2007 23:14:02 GMT
People used to sell me the same vision, that "you'd be great on Big Brother" which I always interpreted as "oh, you mean you can only take me in small doses, want to switch me on and off when you feel like it because I'm always like this and eager to reassure you that I'm basically a living stereotype." That really is my problem and why I would run the very high risk of being seen as nothing more than "a vicious little queen." I see it all the time when I go out, that's what people think, and I'm now just glad that when I did audition I failed.
I did what would have been my introduction clip, in which I was asked how I was and used all my time to reccount my night out the night before - it would have sounded scripted as "I was captured by rentboys" which I was (one of which looked like Kemal FYI who I am convinced is the same person who nominated me out the group down in London, after which I retorted he had a major attitude and acne issues: "I've seen smoother surfaces on a cauliflour."
This is not the best side of my character and not why people like me (those who do that is), when I said this I felt what would probably happen to me in the worst case scenario - the "real me" slipping out of my reach and cut to shreds in the editing room. Don't do it folks.
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Post by Nicholas on Jun 2, 2007 7:54:33 GMT
If you were running a law firm and wanted a hot shot young lawyer to defend a murder suspect and Marco minced his way through the door, would you honestly take him on? I'd barely look at him before sending him on his way. Likewise PJ. Sunita I would employ because I wouldn't remember her. Surely Marco would be a conveyancer? |
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