Last year we were told we would have a say in the HMs that enter the BB House in 2008. The promise was that the top 3 public voted video auditionees would be guaranteed a place in the House lineup, and the next 50 would be called for face to face auditions with producers.
In reality, the 14 that entered on Launch Night did not include any of the top 3 voted HMs. BB even told them they "weren't even close", suggesting they weren't even in the top 50. It is likely BB scraped up all auditionees, regardless of their public votes, to gather the 14 he wanted to feature.
1 week later we had a special show where the 3 voted HMs were introduced and inserted into the House as "official housemates", thus ensuring BB's promise of guaranteeing them a HM position was kept. However only 2 days later Terri was asked to get rid of 2 of them. The 2 HMs, Barney and Michael, were evicted. Surely, after being 2 of the most popular auditionees among viewers the eviction was fake. They will have some secret mission won't they? Well, we have not seen them since. They did not appear on FNL, the Eviction show, or Big Mouth. They were not waiting in the Resort House for the other HMs. They did not have any media commitments that I know of. They have just disappeared.
I bet those 2 wish they had not been voted into the top 3 now, as they would have had a better chance if they got to audition for producers like the others.
It just shows BB's faith in the viewers to choose their own HMs did not last long, and probably won't be tried again. We did get a great batch of HMs regardless, so the video auditions obviously worked well for them, so maybe that aspect will be back again for BB09, without the public voting.
Also, is it strange that BB hasn't put the HMs'audition videos on the website to rewatch? Maybe some of them didn't actually submit an audition video!
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