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Some strange people as you'll see as you read about them and what they like or have done.

Housemates went into the house Saturday night but the show doesn't launch until Sunday night (Sunday morning UK) when the webfeeds will become available.

Also in the Saturday night show the imposter was reveiled to the audiance and it appears it was also overheard by one of the contestants who was taken away by BB for something like 15 minutes before being allowed to enter the house.

larry, is there a way to view BB Oz

From the main lauch tomorrow morning the webfeeds will become available. All you have to do is sign-up for free with the OZ site http://bigbrother.3mobile.com.au/default.asp
Once the feeds have been released you login then click on the link and sit back and watch. Remember the time difference ,they will just be getting up at midnight UK hence why the evictions are Sunday mornings in the UK with a 9 hour time difference eg 1934 UK = 0434 Brisbane.

08may05 HeraldSun

A DATING agency owner, a shearer and an apprentice hairdresser are the three Victorians hoping to become millionaires on the fifth series of Big Brother.

The Channel 10 reality television show will be launched tonight, with 13 new housemates and one mystery intruder who will be locked away for three months at Dreamworld, on the Gold Coast.
Victoria's representatives are Glenn, 21, a shearer who wants to be an "Aussie icon" and Constance, 21, a free-spirited apprentice hairdresser. The third member of the contingent is dating agency owner Angela.

Angela, 29, who comes from a family of fine-paper merchants, is a regular figure on Melbourne's social circuit.

She travels extensively and has a love of expensive international designer labels.

She has also been a member of Lillian Frank's dynamic Royal Children's Hospital committee.

Angela established the Me4U dating agency in Melbourne late last year.

"I've found my passion; infusing beautiful people, champagne and love," she said at the time.

Angela's foray into reality TV came as a surprise to her father, Ian.

"I knew that she was trying to do something with it, (Big Brother) but that was such a long time ago and she was not allowed to tell anybody anything about what she was doing," he said on Friday.

"I thought 'good as gold. If you get it, you get it, if you don't, you don't'."

He said his daughter was outgoing and stood a good chance of winning the $1 million prize.

"I think she would be pretty good at anything she did, to be honest with you," he said.

The Victorians will be joined in the house by South Australian office worker and promotional model Gianna and Brisbane crane company assistant manager Nelson.

Other housemates include a receptionist, a demolition worker, a waitress, a journalist and an estate agent.

The fifth series of Big Brother is being promoted as the steamiest ever. Reality TV has not done well for Ten so far this year, with The X Factor proving to be a ratings flop.

Big Brother executive producer Kris Noble said, after last year's "back-to-basics" Big Brother, he realised people wanted more from the contestants.

He set out to find mostly "single, sexy and uninhibited" people by changing the audition process and forcing people to apply in person.

"They are different. In saying that, they are not a whole bunch of unlikable loudmouths," Noble said.

"They are nice people, but they have edges to them and they are less inhibited than you and I are."

Noble said the BB character had been toughened up and would be sterner on contestants.

"He will act more swiftly to hand out punishment and the show will be run a lot closer to the edge," he said.

The new Big Brother house features a sauna and only double beds, setting the scene for plenty of interaction between residents.

The housemates will be introduced to viewers tonight, with the first eviction set for May 22.

Yeh but is there anyway of watching the actual shows including the launch show etc?

Cheers,

Jonnie:D

Check the torrent sites or take a 3 month vacation.
Or Watch the webfeeds.

Unless you can get channel 4 to rebroadcast OZ then there isn't any other way. You could check the Lyngsat site for webtv just to see if Channel 10 is available but satellite coverage isn't possible with one satellite. IACGMOOH used to in the early days appear on a satellite at 10 degrees East and I think that was using two Satellites.

May 9, 2005 DailyTelegraph.AU

SO the annoying Big Brother music, the bogan eviction night audience and Gretel Killeen's wardrobe malfunctions have begun.

Break out the popcorn -- or turn off the box.

While some elements have remained the same, Big Brother has thrown in identical twins -- and apparently some degree of smut -- to at least keep all the viewers intrigued.

As Confidential reported on Saturday, the imposter is in fact two people -- identical twins -- Sydney sales rep Greg and Brisbane plumber David.

One twin will be locked down in a separate granny flat to the house and the other contestants will not know there are two

"Logan's" -- their made-up name.

The twins will be swapped each day and will have three minutes to fill the other in on what's been going on in the Big Brother house at each swap.

Big Brother is also fining contestants part of their potential $1million prize winnings, with a $5000 fine per house rule broken.

Setting the tone of the series early on, all the men have said they will shower naked and most of the girls say they will shower at least topless.

Doing NSW not so proud are five of the 14 housemates, including Greg the twin.

Christie, is a 19-year-old receptionist with a high opinion of herself and Michael is rowdy fella who works in demolition.

Also representing NSW is Geneva whom aside from having a really bad name, is a cocktail bar waitress who apparently swings each way and swears a lot.

Then there's Tim, who Confidential can tell you about.

An eccentric with a penchant for peroxide, he used to get lunches and photocopy things here at Confidential HQ and at the time thought he was all a bit too cool for school.

That twin thing is a fantastic idea! Imagine their faces when they find out, I love it!

IF it works it should be quite a laugh.

Big Brother turns up the heat


REALITY TV sensation Big Brother launched into its fifth series last night with program producers hoping there is still some truth in the maxim that sex sells.

In stark contrast to last year's show, where a number of the housemates were in relationships before entering, this year's gang of teenagers and twenty-somethings are predominantly single.

The new Big Brother house at Dreamworld, on the Gold Coast, is set up to keep the 14 young contestants in the mood for love with a sauna, spa, seven double beds and a communal shower area.

Most of the boys have already indicated they will shower naked and the girls don't seem too reticent either.

This year's group is said to include at least two bi-sexuals and one claiming to be "try-sexual".

Quite a few of the hopefuls, whose ages range from 19-29, said they would be happy to find love in the house.

The show will offer $1 million in prizemoney, with $5000 deducted every time a housemate breaks house rules, which could include not wearing a microphone.

There will be an "impostor", with a pair of identical twin brothers trading places without housemates knowing.

Veteran host Gretel Killeen said some areas of the house were to be kept secret for now.

The first contestant was 21-year-old Victorian hairdresser Constance, who "enjoys hanging out with boys, drinking beer and getting kicked out of pubs".

The second contestant, 19-year-old receptionist Christie, appeared to have an ego the size of her home state of NSW, telling the TV audience that she was "perfect". The Australian

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Glenn Dallinger inside Big Brother house
Tuesday, 10 May 2005stawell.yourguide.com

Stawell shearer Glenn Dallinger, has commenced the journey of a lifetime, joining twelve other contestants in the Big Brother House.

Glenn, 21, entered the house for the first time on Sunday night, telling Big Brother host Gretal Killean that he was `pinging' to get inside the house.

After the initial meet and greet session inside the foyer, it was business as usual for the Big Brother contestants and Glenn appeared to settle in well on the first night.

He said a lot of people described him as a real country hick, but he was just down to earth and had a pet hate for pretenders - people who big note themselves.

The first twin swap happened tonight and Greg made a relatively smooth entrance into the Big Brother house.
Gretel arrived in Greg's isolation room to find a stir-crazy twin. He seemed pretty excited to see her - his first contact with the outside world in the last 48 hours.

Gretel asked him how he was feeling about the switch: "He could be gibbering a lot of crap and making it really hard for me," he said of his brother.

Big Brother has given the boys a helping hand to cover up some of their differences, he explained. David has a plumber's tan - white ankles and bum - so they both received fake tans, and a full body wax for Dave, much to Greg's delight.

The scars had been covered with latex, though Dave lost Greg's scar above his right eye since he went into the house. Will anyone notice that it's back?

In the diary room the twins had a minute to swap clothes and microphones - giving Australia a bit of a moon in the process - and three minutes to swap information. The swap consisted mainly of confirming if their cover stories had been told yet and some basic information about what David had been doing just before the swap.

"Is there really a guy called Hotdogs?" asked Greg, trying hard to control his excitement.

"Yeah, stay away from the journalist," said Dave, not bothering to tell his brother that it was Tim who was the journalist.

Greg wanted to know if David had "pashed any chicks", and seemed disappointed that David hadn't started any amorous action.

Greg seemed cool when he made his entrance into the house. He was expecting to join a game of hackey-sack in the back yard, but found Tim and Michael in the kitchen making dinner.

He made a cool excuse about being called to the Diary Room because the hacky-sack game was mucking with his microphone and made his way into the bedroom, where he quickly worked out which was his bed because his bedmate Glenn was lying on it. A good start.


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May 11, 2005

MORE has been uncovered on the grapevine about Adelaide's Big Brother contender Gianna Pattison - including that her first name may not be real.

Apparently, in her school days at Strathalbyn Primary and High, she was known as "Janie". Some think her name may have since been changed by deed poll. (At school she was also known for her Michael Jackson impersonations.)
Also revealed on the grapevine is that Gianna, now single, was recently engaged.

Doing the rounds on email has been a photo of Gianna in a revealing, black halter-neck dress at the Christmas show of her workplace Origin Energy.

Apparently, the figure hugging number caused quite a stir when she frocked up.

Also on email is a "lie sheet" the vivacious personality has apparently made up, including that she once turned down a $1 million movie contract.

News.com.au

Sydney Star Observer
Published 12/05/2005

As soon as I say “I’m never going to [insert thing I’m allegedly never going to do here]” I’m sure to do it, as soon as possible.

Like, last week I was saying: “I’m never going to watch that bullshit show Big Brother again,” and here I am, one day in, completely sucked in.

At least, for once, it’s not just my own ridiculous addiction to crap reality TV that is to blame.

It’s because I know one of the idiots who have signed up to spend at least a week in the house.

Poor Tim. He’s a friend of a friend, really, and the closest thing the gay community has to an ally on the inside of the house of hell – despite some acknowledged bisexual flirtations of 19-year-old bargirl Geneva.

Anyway, Tim. He’s not gay, but he’s not like the other dickhead rednecks they’ve put in there.

He’s a total lefty and has already said he’d be annoyed by “sexist or homophobic” housemates. Is there any other kind?

Really, he is such an unlikely choice for Big Brother that when I saw him going in, I thought he must have been The Impostor the BB promotions machine has been raving on about for a week.

It would be a victory for all of us if he does win, not that he’s going to.

Watching him in the first episode I felt like screaming. Tim! Assimilate! Don’t drink a bottle of water, they’ll think you’re some kind of Newtown girly-man! Go for the beer, Tim, go for the beer!

So he’ll definitely be voted off, and soon. Looking at the line-up of contestants he stands out a mile: he’s short, he’s skinny, he doesn’t have a vacant expression, he’s not a boy wearing a pair of three-quarter length pants or a girl wearing a booby top.

Middle Australia will hate him, and my gay mates are too distracted by the promise of naked hot guys to even notice he’s there.

He’s not doing enough to hide his brains, either, and no-one wants brains in the inside. The rest of the housemates are incredibly dumb – three of the women can’t even name one character from Star Wars.

Unless he’s got an ace up his sleeve, I give him two weeks. Then he’ll join the long list of vaguely familiar Big Brother rejects. And I can stop watching, thank god.