Christine wrote:
Here is just a summary of what the book is about:-
There is a Foreward to the book written by Brian Dowling, followed by an Introduction written by Narinder. In the introduction, she wrote (amongst other things) 'Some (of the ex-housemates) that I contacted were quite frankly rude, unprofessional and thought far too much of themselves. I'm not naming any names, but one texted me at 4am demanding an extortionate fee that was considerably more than I was getting paid to put the book together! One would only do the book if it was going to include Halle berry, because otherwise why would she want to be involved in a book with Big Brother people?'
There are then Chapters about various things, such as 'Why did they do it?', 'What was the Audition like?', 'What was life like in the house?' and then various aspects of life after the house. Each chapter starts with a piece by Narinder herself answering the question and then she does a paragraph for each ex housemate that she interviewed. Apparently, Sophie did Big Brother purely for the money and hadn't watched the show because she had been working abroad on cruise ships for the 2 years previous and she didn't realise the enormity of the show.
The ex-housemates interviewed in the book, are Melanie Hill BB1, Amma BB2, Makosi BB6, Derek Laud BB6, Eugene BB6, Alex Sibley BB3, Sophie BB3, Kinga BB6, Emma Greenwood BB5, Victor BB5, Sissy BB4, Brian Dowling BB2, Kate Lawler BB3, Sam Heuston BB6, Anthony Hutton BB6, Nadia BB5, Lea Walker BB7 and Richard Newman BB7.
There are also interviews with Boyd Hilton TV Editor of Heat Magazine, Gary Thompson, Senior Associate Editor, News of the World, Sharon Marshall, TV Critic This Morning, Rachel Morris, Psychotherapist, BB, Phil Edgar-Jones, Creative Director, Endemol and Kevin O'Sullivan TV Critic Sunday Mirror.
As I said I haven't read very much yet, but so far it is a very good and interesting book.
Thanks Christine for your humorous appraisal - I hope Kate wasn't one of the Big Brother housemates who was 'rude', 'unprofessional' & 'thought too much of themselves'!
It would have been nice to see an appraisal of Big Brother housemates who've appeared on Big Brother forums.
Both Kate and Brian are put over in the book as the two success stories of BB from the housemates interviewed, - 'The Winners' - the ones with a positive story to tell of their time during and after BB.
Although I haven't read the book cover to cover yet either, I have really enjoyed what I have read so far.
For die-hard fans of a particular housemate there may not be much new information, but it is certainly enlightening to read the stories of the other housemates.
