Monday, March 10, 2008

Recycling HMs

While I'm on the topic of auditions, I'll cover an issue I have with past HMs submitting videos to audition for this year's series. NOT ON! They've had their chance.

Videos were submitted by Paul (BB04), Vesna (BB05), and Cruz (BB07 White Room) to be housemates in BB08. How disappointing would it be to see a housemate return outisde of an All-Star series, or as some BB stunt.

Paul pointed out in his audition video that there was nothing in the contracts or terms & conditions stating a past housemate could not re-apply. Well, there should be! And if there isn't, producers should not even consider these applicants for another position in the show. What could an audience gain from having to vote out a housemate all over again? And it would give them an unfair advantage / disadvantage because audiences would already know a lot about them from Day 1, when we're trying to get to know all the others. And there are rules about discussions of past series of BB-- a rule that is important to prevent repetitiveness of series. This would be almost impossible to keep up if an ex-HM went in as a new housemate.

Let's hope this was just a cheap publicity stunt by BB to increase interest in the online voting process.

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