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09:18 Tue 20 Feb 2007

VIP BROTHER-2 IN BULGARIA TO TRY SETTING UP CALM ATMOSPHERE

The second VIP season of the reality show Big Brother will begin in Bulgaria in the end of March 2007.

Bulgarians celebrities will have to spend a month in a house together under camera surveillance. The preparation of the new season had already begun, avtora.com said.

This season’s concept will be ‘sunny’ atmosphere, unlike the first edition of the show when local celebrities quarreled all the time.

Producers will refrain from intentional confrontation of the roommates, avtora.com said.

Nikolai Nikolov, editor in chief of Vip Brother 2, said that the show producers conducted a poll among the TV audience in 2007 to find out which celebrities to invite in the second season.

Pop-folk singer Konstantin won the first season of Vip Brother in Bulgaria, competing against 11 other celebrities. He received a 50 000 leva award.

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VIP BROTHER WINNER TO GET HOLD OF 100 000 LEVA AWARD

The winner of the second season of the VIP edition of Big Brother reality show will receive a 100 000 leva award.

The award is twice bigger than the one given to the winner of the first edition.

Vip Brother 2 will be launched on March 26 2007 and will last a month, avtora.com reported.

Twelve Bulgarian celebrities among which actors, athletes, models and singers will live together under constant camera surveillance.

Producers offered three politicians to take part in Vip Brother.

The participants will have to live together in a house for a month and will nominate each other for elimination. The winner will be selected via audience SMS vote in the end of the show.

Producers of the show keep the names of the participants in secret.

According to avtora.com two of the participants could be homosexual couple Azis and Kitaetsa who informally married in 2006. The two said that they would like to take part in the show.

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09:00 Mon 26 Mar 2007
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CHILD PARTICIPATION IN BULGARIA’S VIP BROTHER AGAIN

The second season of the VIP edition of Big Brother reality show in Bulgaria will feature child participation again, organisers said.

Novinar newspaper reported that the child, aged two, will enter the Big Brother house together with both parents. There, participants will live under constant camera monitoring.

Model Violeta Zdravkova enetered the VIP Brother house together with her 3-year old daughter Danaia in the first edition.

Organisers said that three VIP couples will be part of the show.

Actress Katerina Evro, fold singer Desislava and musician Kalin Veliov are expected to be among the participants in the show starting on March 26.

Participants will live together in the house for a month. They will take part in at least three major tasks. The first ‘mission’ will be announced on Wednesday, March 28.

For the first time organisers said as quoted by Novinar that some of the VIP contestants will receive money for their participation in the show. The majority of rules accepted for the regular Big Brother series will apply for the Vip Edition as well.

Bulgarian 'VIP' Big Brother 2 Starts

One Bulgarian politician, one millionaire and one former roommate from the House will be among the 12 participants in the second season of the reality show's VIP edition.

The creators of the broadcast didn't say much in front of journalists. They keep almost everything in secret.

What the medias could wring out is that one of the participants posses wealth of 15 million EUR, and that the Bulgarian blond sex icon Ann G will also be part of the show.

The contestants will live in an extremely luxurious house ('wet' bar, mini golf court, shower cabins on steam, warm-up and massage chairs).

In this edition we want to see how the roommates treat each other if they got no problems of life, told the organizers.

Our purpose is to become clear is the material stuff in the base of misunderstandings in one family or not?, said the main director of the reality show Nikolai Nikolov.

The House renovation cost the producers more than 100,000 BGN ( 50,000 EUR). The whole preparation was about 2 million BGN (1 mln EUR).

Who are the 12 participants that will start living together in the House will be known, tonight, March 26.

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HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE, SINGERS AND EX-BIG BROTHER BULGARIA PARTICIPANTS TAKE PART IN VIP BROTHER

A homosexual couple, folk singers, actors and former Big Brother reality show participants will take part in the VIP edition of the show.

The second season of Big Brother's VIP edition was launched on on March 26.

Two famous couples entered the Big Brother house, where they will live under camera surveillance in the coming month. The first couple are the folk star Azis whose real name is Vassil Boyanov and his 'husband' Nikolay Purvanov aka The Chinese.

Tabloid TV show host Veneta Raikova entered the show with her husband Tihomir Georgiev, an ex- Big Brother participant.
Actress Katerina Evro, folk singer Dessislava and the drum player Kalin Veliov will also live in the house under constant camera monitoring.

Ex Big Brother winner Zdravko Vassilev will also take part in the reality show. Vassilev used the first show broadcast to propose marriage to his girlfriend. The wedding is to take place in the house of Big Brother.

Vesselin Danov who joined the 'family' is a politician and municipality advisor in the coastal city of Varna. Danov is allegedly a millionaire and owns restaurants, a hotel and brokerage houses.

Participants will live in the house for a month and will have to accomplish three tasks. The first task will be announced on March 28.

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Reality show rivalry in Bulgaria
09:00 Mon 09 Apr 2007 - Elitsa Grancharova

Even though at first sight the two shows do not have much in common, it appears that Big Brother/VIP Brother and Music Idol are the two main prime time opponents on national television stations and are locked in a titanic battle for ratingsd and adspent.

When the most recent season of Big Brother – the second VIP Brother programme with famous participants – went on air on March 26, more than two million people watched the show, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.

The average rating of the show was 21.3, as reported by Nova Televisia, the channel hosting it.

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