'Fake Week'

[frapperia]

Well. I know I'm underwhelmed. Anyone else?

[pauliepoos]

I'm underwhelmed by this thread so far.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[frapperia]

Well, from what I've been told, BB is trying to push ratings by creating a fake week where nothing really means anything and a mole (ie. if Becky Seddiki hadn't been being a randomer, but had had a task) gets involved to stir things up a bit. Has no one else heard this?

[Gordon]

No kidding is she an actress!

[frapperia]

Yay. It bez true.

[Cherubic]

A housemate called poo who can't act for shit.

[pauliepoos]

frapperia said:

Well, from what I've been told, BB is trying to push ratings by creating a fake week where nothing really means anything and a mole (ie. if Becky Seddiki hadn't been being a randomer, but had had a task) gets involved to stir things up a bit. Has no one else heard this?

Are you still underwhelmed?

[frapperia]

I just feel like BB gets more and more desperate every year. This thing about letting the housemates see the interview stinks of falling ratings.

Paul - I'm underwhelmed, yeah, by the Fake Week thing. Not by the eviction, that could be potentially great. Just think, if Charley goes next week that would be brilliant, especially cos they're going to send them back in afterwards.

[xenomaniac]

It could be quite fun. The cynic in me thinks its just another way to save Charley next week, but sticking her straight back in will having funny consequences.


Edit: I hope Gerry isn't a bubblegum pop fan or she is rumbled.

[Gordon]

xenomaniac said:

Edit: I hope Gerry isn't a bubblegum pop fan or she is rumbled.

Is this woman a pop star?

[xenomaniac]

sunsetbitch said:

xenomaniac said:

Edit: I hope Gerry isn't a bubblegum pop fan or she is rumbled.

Is this woman a pop star?

Shame on you! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllSTARS*

[frapperia]

I used to love Star Street. I had a big crush on Ashley.

[orphanandy]

Did Davina say that this weeks eviction is fake and the evictees interview will be seen by the housemates and then they will be put back in??

Thats weird

[Muinimula]

Is it not possible that Thalia and Ziggy crossed paths 'back in the day' when they were in AllSTARS and Northern Line? I just can't help but feel this charade won't last five minutes... The fake eviction and interview might be mildly interesting, I suppose.

[orphanandy]

Just when housemates thought they knew the ins and outs of the show, Big Brother will turn the house on its head this week with a series of fake twists and tasks – and everyone will know what's going on apart from the housemates.

The first twist of the week came tonight in the form of new housemate, Pauline – who's just been 'evicted' from the Australian Big Brother house. Pauline, however, is in fact 26-year-old actress Thaila Zucchi.

Housemates were, this evening, introduced to Pauline via the plasma screen after the eviction. What the group don't realise is that their soon-to-be new housemate was chatting to them from a fake diary room just outside on their doorstep.

After 'jetting across from Oz', Pauline will enter the house during Sunday's Big Brother's Little Brother.

For the duration of the week, housemates will be set a series of Australian-themed tasks in an attempt to make Pauline 'feel at home'. However, the group's real task is to figure out that Pauline isn't actually a real housemate. If the housemates rumble Big Brother's 'mole', they will receive a luxury shopping budget for the week.

It has not yet been revealed how long Pauline will remain in the house but it is known that her stay will be a "short" one.

In line with the 'fake' theme, housemates will be under the impression that Pauline is living in a specially-decorated bedroom next door. Pauline (Thaila Zucchi), however, will, in fact, be popping in and out of the house all week, making various appearances on Big Brother's Little Brother.

Big Brother will also set Pauline personal tasks every day to keep the group on their toes.

In what will be the housemates' weirdest week of their lives, 'Fake Week' will come to a head next Friday when Big Brother has one final sting in its tail – the fifth eviction will be fake.

During tonight's live show, Davina revealed that the housemate to be evicted will be one of the real housemates, not Pauline. On leaving the house, the evictee will be interviewed by Davina while, at the same time, being watched by the rest of the group in the house.

That evictee will then be thrown straight back into the compound, the other housemates having heard everything the evictee has said about them.

[[james]]

muinimula said:

Is it not possible that Thalia and Ziggy crossed paths 'back in the day' when they were in AllSTARS and Northern Line? I just can't help but feel this charade won't last five minutes... The fake eviction and interview might be mildly interesting, I suppose.

It's unlikely. According to Wiki, Northern Line were 1998-2000 and allSTARS were 2001-2002. Plus neither were a massive band so they could've met and quite likely forgot.

[David]

Um... yes. As soon as she opened her mouth, I assumed she was English, so she's going to have to work on that accent.

[David Hunter]

Was that actually based on the real Australian Diary Room? It looked totally fake from the start, like when shows like 'This Morning' have a 'live link up' to someone in the forces with the wife in the studio, but they're really round the corner. You can tell a mile off.

[fused]

Thaila Zucchi was also in Balls Of Steel playing The Bunny Boiler, and apparently she has been in Star Stories as well. I know neither of those shows are exactly ratings grabbers (even though I personally really liked Star Stories), but they are both fairly recent, so even if they don't remember her from allSTARS they might still recognise her.

I did used to watch Star Street a lot, but mostly because I fancied Ashley Taylor Dawson. Also I did like Becky Hunter in allSTARS because she had been in CBBC show called Microsoap, which I must have really liked at the time, but all I can really remember about it now was that it had a large blue mouse in it.

[frapperia]

Whatever happened to Sam Bloom, eh?

[LoveMusic]

I think this isn't going to work, i recgonised her straight away and she can barely keep the accent up.

Is she the best we have!?

[MoondialSlater]

Well Ziggy & Charley reckon they've seen her somewhere before, which probably won't get shown so Davina can go "THEY'VE GOT NO IDEA!!!! ISN'T IT BRILLIANT!!!! THIS IS THE BEST TWIST EVAH AND WLL REALLY SHAKE THE HOUSE UP, LIKE GIVING AWAY THE MONEY DID, HONEST IT DID REALLY!!!". But Brian of all people might be the one most likely to figure it out since he's been watching BB Australia.

But they do seem to be desperately trying to grab ratings now by having two twists in the same week. Especially when they'll probably have nothing for the next four afterwards.

[Nurse Dunkley]

Were there three girls in allstars? Is it the one who's not been mentioned here who's married to (Dick n') Dom(inic Wood)?

[LoveMusic]

Just wikied it.

He married Sandi-Lee who i think was the blondie one.

[Sarah]

lovemusic said:

I think this isn't going to work, i recgonised her straight away and she can barely keep the accent up.

Is she the best we have!?

I think it makes it more exciting that someone might recognize her, or that she might fuck up the accent.

Well, maybe "exciting" isn't the right word.