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Bonnie’s exit came as The Scum discovered nine of the 14 housemates had been guinea pigs for previous BB shows.

The move has disgusted viewers who claim BB bosses have “groomed” the contestants for years.

They say there is little point in people turning up to auditions because producers seem “scared” of choosing anyone who hasn’t had a test run.

One viewer said: “The show is more contrived each year. Why can’t we have a bunch of people who don’t know each other or haven’t been in a test run?”

Another said: “It’s a sham. People who turned up for the auditions have been misled.” Three current contestants have been in the house before.

IMOGEN was in the dry run of BB4. SEZER was picked last year for the test run and had a fling with Becki, who made it to the main show.

PETE has allegedly been considered for BB since series two. And six more housemates have been on “dry runs”.

Author:	Madeline [ 27 May 06, 9:57 ]
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BIG BROTHER EXCLUSIVE: KIDNAP Dawn: I was locked in house against my will BIG Brother reject Dawn Black last night demanded TV chiefs be charged with kidnap after claiming she was forced to stay in the house for almost 24 hours before being kicked out. The furious 38-year-old threatened to call in police to probe allegations she was locked in a room and taunted by giggling staff. She also claimed she was banned from taking medication into the house, branded the show "dangerously off the rails", insisted two remaining housemates are suicidal and blasted bosses for letting "mentally unstable" people take part. She said: "If one of them comes out and kills themselves the producers will have blood on their hands. They are playing with people's lives." Yoga instructor Dawn, kicked out for breaking house rules by receiving secret messages from her sister, said: "They held me there against my will for nearly 24 hours. It was like being in jail, except with them mocking me all the time and refusing to listen to me. I'm furious. "I'm thinking of what to do about it, but one option is to press charges for false imprisonment. "When you join they say you can leave at any time but they literally locked me into that house. If anyone else did that they'd be prosecuted for kidnap so I might press charges." Dawn laid into Channel 4 chiefs over their choice of housemate and claimed they selected vulnerable contestants to make the show as outrageous as possible. She spoke days after Shahbaz told how his dramatic breakdown on the show was caused by a lifetime of abuse and mental torture. Dawn said: "This series is just too silly for words now, and the producers are being totally irresponsible playing with people's lives by putting them on the programme when they're not mentally stable. "Shahbaz has obviously got mental problems. He needs medical and psychological help, and putting him in that house was so bad for him. "I worry about Nikki and Lea too. They are both lovely girls but they have problems and they're not stable. And I want Bonnie out as soon as possible because she's cracking up. "All the producers care about is making the show as shocking as possible, but they're playing with people's lives. I can see people cracking up in there and it won't be pretty. "I work with children and young adults and I can see dangerous patterns of behaviour in some of the housemates this year. The problems won't be when they're in the house, but what happens when they leave." Viewers last night watched as Dawn, from Birmingham, was kicked off Big Brother. She was called into the Diary Room and told to leave over the messages from her sister Jo. She admitted receiving the coded words but said she was simply being told to calm down and leave. Dawn added: "I told my sister before I went on that if she wanted me to leave she should call and tell me someone in the family was ill. "Big Brother tells all housemates they can have certain messages given to them, so I knew the system would work. "She rang after watching me on the live channel getting more and more stressed. As soon as I got her message, it strengthened my urge to leave and I begged Big Brother again to let me go." Dawn - who would have faced eviction last night if she hadn't been axed - said she decided to quit after hearing she would never be given her suitcase. She added: "When they told me I just thought 'No way'." A show spokeswoman confirmed Dawn asked to leave on Tuesday and that her bedroom had been locked -but denied she had been kidnapped. She said: "All housemates have the right to leave at any time. However, they are aware it takes time to make the arrangements for this to happen. "The door was locked for maintenance but the housemates still had access to the bathroom amenities." She insisted Dawn was offered aftercare counselling but did not take it up. She added: "Housemates are aware they can request the services of a psychologist at any time. "Dawn told BB in the Diary Room that she did not require that access." She also said Dawn was allowed to take an inhaler into the house. The spokes-woman added: "Housemates are not permitted to take medication into the house. There are some exceptions. "Dawn was permitted to take in four inhalers ." Mirror

Author:	Madeline [ 27 May 06, 10:08 ]
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DAWN'S BIG VERDICT SHAH BAZ - Shouldn't have been in the house. Has serious mental health issues. I liked him and will keep in touch to check he's okay. SEZER - Down to earth and a bit sexist, but I took his comments tongue in cheek. Got the hots for Imogen. RICHARD - Desperate to win, and I think he needs the money. He's the daddy of the house and a lovely guy. PETE - Definitely going to win. He's had a hard time, but everyone loves him and he's going to be unstoppable with the public. NIKKI-She's so vulnerable. She wakes up screaming and crying and is finding it very hard. LEA-Very fragile. Under a lot of pressure in the house and worried about what people think of her. GEORGE -A bit absent-minded at times. A nice guy, though. Playing a long game, I think. GLYN - Sidelined a bit because of his age. A nice boy, I hope he finds his feet a little. BONNIE - Struggling. I want her to come out because she's not enjoying it in there. Quite shy and a little unstable. LISA -Very stressed and has started chain smoking. Bundles of energy. MIKEY- Entertaining and very attractive. He could end up getting close to Grace - Pretended to be a Sloane Ranger to get in but she's a down to earth girl really. Having fun. IMOGEN - A sweetie, exactly the kind of person you should have in there. Totally sane, but desperate to be liked. Mirror

Author:	alanlapin [ 27 May 06, 10:57 ]
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Quote: The furious 38-year-old threatened to call in police to probe allegations she was locked in a room and taunted by giggling staff. She also claimed she was banned from taking medication into the house, branded the show "dangerously off the rails", insisted two remaining housemates are suicidal and blasted bosses for letting "mentally unstable" people take part. Hmmmm, talk about a Drama Queen. The bit about the taunts of the giggling imbecile production-staff I can readily believe (and it's why anyone with sense and self-respect would never enter BB) but to say she was kidnapped and that two HMs are suicidal is ridiculous. Dawn's war with BB is incredibly petty. Makes you wonder if it all just a rehearsed act from a script supplied by BB anyway. I find it hard to believe a fitness instructor would appreciate the benefits/necessity of daily washing. That crap about her job, why go in to the house in the first instance then?

Author:	alanlapin [ 27 May 06, 11:06 ]
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From The Scum Quote: Bonnie’s exit came as The Scum discovered nine of the 14 housemates had been guinea pigs for previous BB shows. The move has disgusted viewers who claim BB bosses have “groomed” the contestants for years. They say there is little point in people turning up to auditions because producers seem “scared” of choosing anyone who hasn’t had a test run. One viewer said: “The show is more contrived each year. Why can’t we have a bunch of people who don’t know each other or haven’t been in a test run?” Another said: “It’s a sham. People who turned up for the auditions have been misled.” Three current contestants have been in the house before. IMOGEN was in the dry run of BB4. SEZER was picked last year for the test run and had a fling with Becki, who made it to the main show. PETE has allegedly been considered for BB since series two. And six more housemates have been on “dry runs”. The production team really are cowards. And lazy cowards at that. Pick some REAL people! Not a bunch of desperate, do anything you tell them, yes-puppets. This is all against the spirit of BB, it's supposed to be 'ordinary' people selected by character for the purpose of giving us entertaining, original, unpredictable TV. Instead, we have trained poodles performing to pre-rehearsed (often for a year or two) routines. And some of those routines are VERY old hat now. Speaking of which, and this is their number 1 routine for the lab-rats: No wonder Imogen & Sleazer, Grace & Mikey so quickly fell into bed! What a terrible sham the show is. People: DON'T VOTE!! It's as contrived as any political election. Bollox! The whole thing is even more of a deliberately-staged, money-grabbing farce than I thought (and I also say that the more I study politics). It's getting now that we could easily swap politicians around with BB contestants, so long as each follows the script written for them. I'll still keep posting though.

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Author:	public image ltd [ 27 May 06, 11:39 ]
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Of course Big Brother is all contrived these days & maybe it always was to a degree. I'll be a hypocrite & still watch but Endemol are just a cynical money making machine who contrive to produce an entertainment 'reality' show for Channel 4. The programme is best watched now with a very cynical eye. It's all very incestuous at the Big Brother franchise these days. Endemol make fools of the audience when they show housemates who they've known/known about for years auditioning. They would never say that the person going in on opening night has experienced a 'dry run'. No, they.d get too much stick for that. How much briefing did Chantelle get before she went into CBB?? - when she was on the show she didn't mention anything about being an wannabe topless model. Endemol didn't choose an Anne Widdecombe lookalike to go in - no, they chose a pretty girl with big blonde hair & loud makeup - someone who would look good in OK magazine. Chantelle did well - but she was a novelty living with a group of either dislikeable or dull housemates. Once Maggot had stood on the No.11 spot she was ALWAYS going to win.

Author:	finchy [ 27 May 06, 14:42 ]
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Quote: "All housemates have the right to leave at any time. However, they are aware it takes time to make the arrangements for this to happen." It takes 16 hours to call a taxi and book a hotel room for someone down there? Blimey.....

Author:	Calrissian [ 27 May 06, 15:41 ]
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Hmm, Dawn is an idiot if she thought her experience would be anything else. Has she not watched the show before? Is she really that dumb? She seems to have average intelligence, and yet here we are...another housemate whining about conditions and the type of show BB is. --- *I hereby place notice I would happily represent dawn in court on the allegation C4/Endemol I work on a no-win no fee basis, although if I win, I take at least 110% of the damages. Calrissian: 100% is never enough

Author:	Starlet [ 27 May 06, 17:31 ]
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She's right though, if I ever went on BB (I wouldn't) and decided I wanted to leave then after watching how they treated Dawn there's no way I'd ask to leave and give them a chance to keep me hostage for 2 days while they worked out how to stitch me up, I'd be over the wall or legging it out the front door on eviction night!

Author:	carlypops [ 27 May 06, 17:50 ]
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Well you would wouldn't you.

Author:	JimD [ 27 May 06, 20:24 ]
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Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn Charlie Brooker Saturday May 27, 2006 The Guardian Christ almighty. Hellzapoppin'. Where on God's Earth do you start? Big Brother (C4, E4, daily) has shovelled some berks our way in the past, but this time - for round seven - they're using nuclear-powered shovels and berks the size of hills. It shouldn't be possible, but clearly it somehow is. By now, everyone in Europe will be aware that one housemate has stood out for all the wrong reasons: I speak, obviously, of Shahbaz. Shahbaz - a children's party entertainer created in a madman's laboratory, set loose on the world minus an "off" switch. Shabaz - an episode of Crackerjack with an erection down its shorts, running, sobbing and shrieking, right in your direction. Shahbaz the Allfrighty. Fear him. Pity him. Just for God's sake don't encourage him. Shahbaz spent his first few days in the hellhouse bouncing round the linoleum shrieking, blubbing, squealing and bear-hugging anyone within grasping distance. That was disturbing enough. But when, for some mad reason, this failed to win anyone over, he really went into meltdown - deliberately provoking arguments then playing the victim: behaviour that's not so much attention-seeking as attention-kidnapping. By the time you read this he'll be conducting a dirty protest in tears - and all because he just wants to be loved. Unsettling in a none-too-entertaining way, he should've been pulled out days ago, and unless he's an actor, I fear for his stability following the inevitable eviction. Here's hoping for a soft landing and a happier tomorrow. Of course, there's one bit of knowledge Shahbaz can comfort himself with: whatever his faults, at least he isn't Sezer. Sezer: yuk. Just what we need on our screens: a pint-sized, pixel-eyed, monotone, priapic, hair-gelled rodent, so in love with himself he probably ******** to videos of himself ******. And it's misplaced adoration, because sculpted torso aside, he's got precisely nothing going for him. He'll never say anything you haven't heard expressed by someone less objectionable before. There are a million identical dullards in the capital alone - hurl a bag of ** into any bar in central London and the chances are it'll burst over four or five of them. (Footnote: infuriatingly, at the time of writing, Tuesday morning, Sezer has behaved entirely reasonably for a full 24 hours. If he doesn't start pissing me off again, I'll have to revise my kneejerk opinion of him. And that would never do.) Most of the remainder are relatively dull. There's Mikey (sexist Vernon Kay/Owen Wilson cross-splice whose punchably dumb face probably adorns the banknotes in Thickland); George (near-silent posho with the head of an Easter Island statue and a severe case of Portillo lips); Nikki (spoiled chimpette who throws tantrums like Geoff Capes throws fenceposts) and Grace (skinny dance instructor apparently played by Peaches Geldof). Who else? Think hard now. You can do it. Ah yes: Lea (planet-boobed sometime pornstar who's surgically enhanced her way out of the human race altogether - she now resembles Samantha Janus as described by a lunatic); Dawn (an "exercise scientist" who believes in chakras - so not a scientist at all then); Imogen (cute but flavourless; a passable human vacuum in a thong) and Richard (catty Right Said Fred diplomat clearly doomed to spend the rest of his natural life lifting heavy objects on daytime DIY makeover shows). Apparently, there are two others, called Bonnie and Glyn. But I don't think they've been on camera yet. Still it's not all bad news. Lisa (Lucy Liu channelling the spirit of Bez), for instance, is vaguely tolerable. But the clear victor, by 10 country miles, is Pete - the Tourette's sufferer whose frequent uncontrollable spasms turn him into a cross between Rik from the Young Ones, Keyop from Battle of the Planets, a Tex Avery cartoon wolf, and Klunk, the chirruping inventor from Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines. Funny, charming, intelligent, talented, modest and utterly even-handed, he's by far the most likable contestant in the programme's lengthening history. And if he doesn't win, I'll eat Shahbaz.

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