Tonight is the final ever FNL! It is also one of Dreamworld's "Screamworld" nights where the theme park adjoining the BB House opens its gates late to create the After-Dark Park.
The FNL winner tonight will have the opportunity to enter Dreamworld for "a few hours" to go on some of the rides.
HMs will be lifted higher than ever before. There will be live rats. There will be... pavlovas? And Mike, Bree & Fitzy will sing John Farnham/Little River Band's "Playing To Win".
All this on the last ever Friday Night Live!
UPDATE: What was Mike on about in his blog. The HMs didn't go to Dreamworld. Their families did. The winner got 60 seconds to spend with his accidentally slime-covered brother! It goes to show the format must change right up until the last minute.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Mail Bonding
(I love a blog entry with a good pun in the title.)
For weeks Rory and Travis have been planning a day where they will do a "life swap" in the outside world, where Travis will take on Rory's job as a brickie and go out partying, and Rory will do Travis' job as a PA, and go horse riding. Rory has been giving Travis lessons in how to be him by teaching him to lay bricks. Very expensive bricks so far, as the only thing they've had to practise with in the House are the $25,000 cash bricks from the Prize Money wall.
Today BB answered their requests and delivered a wheelbarrow full of real housebricks and a bag of lime to make mortar. Rory and Travis' task was to build the first ever BB mailbox. He even gave them a real taste of the tradie's life by offering them a "smoko" of coffee and sausage rolls with sauce.
After a couple of hours, the letterbox was complete, right beside the Combi Van, and Rory and Travis etched their names and "BB08" into the wet cement. The job looks pretty good, and it will be something to see when doing the BB House Tour when the series ends.
For weeks Rory and Travis have been planning a day where they will do a "life swap" in the outside world, where Travis will take on Rory's job as a brickie and go out partying, and Rory will do Travis' job as a PA, and go horse riding. Rory has been giving Travis lessons in how to be him by teaching him to lay bricks. Very expensive bricks so far, as the only thing they've had to practise with in the House are the $25,000 cash bricks from the Prize Money wall.
Today BB answered their requests and delivered a wheelbarrow full of real housebricks and a bag of lime to make mortar. Rory and Travis' task was to build the first ever BB mailbox. He even gave them a real taste of the tradie's life by offering them a "smoko" of coffee and sausage rolls with sauce.
After a couple of hours, the letterbox was complete, right beside the Combi Van, and Rory and Travis etched their names and "BB08" into the wet cement. The job looks pretty good, and it will be something to see when doing the BB House Tour when the series ends.
Mike Goldman "Not Needed" for Finale
Are the producers morons or something?
Mike Goldman showed up for work on BB on Launch Night 2001, and has not missed a day in 8 years. He has done:
Mike Goldman showed up for work on BB on Launch Night 2001, and has not missed a day in 8 years. He has done:
- voice overs for about 600 Daily Shows
- live crowd warm-ups for 6 years of Evictions, Nominations and specials
- hosted about 260 episodes of UpLate by himself for up to 2 1/2 hours a night
- co-hosted 54 episodes of Friday Night Live
- co-hosted 2 live evictions when Kyle got sick
And the producers have the nerve to call and say they don't need him to be there for the Finale of all Finales.
From the response Mike got to this revelation on his live blog on the Courier Mail website it is obvious fans want to see him at the Finale, if not hosting it over Kyle "I always hated BB" Sandilands. He did say things could change at any time and we may still see Mike, Bree and Fitzy make an appearance during the final show. Let's hope they come to their senses and let Mike give his show a big send-off.
Unfortunately chances are looking slim that Gretel Killeen could possibly make an appearance as she is in the middle of a month's run in The Rocky Horror Show in Sydney.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Terri Turns on Travis
Terri's had some words to say about Travis lately.
In The Big Sting on Sunday night, Terri voted for Travis to be "evicted" from the House. She claimed he would not spend the prize money wisely if he won.
On Monday when they got their ironing task and were told to cover the clothing from the rain, Terri had a go at Travis for mucking around too much instead of getting a job done, which she reiterated on Tuesday.
In tonight's Family Dinner, Terri said that living with Travis is getting difficult with less people in the House to distract him.
Does she see him as her threat? Is Terri out to eliminate the competition and win?
In The Big Sting on Sunday night, Terri voted for Travis to be "evicted" from the House. She claimed he would not spend the prize money wisely if he won.
On Monday when they got their ironing task and were told to cover the clothing from the rain, Terri had a go at Travis for mucking around too much instead of getting a job done, which she reiterated on Tuesday.
In tonight's Family Dinner, Terri said that living with Travis is getting difficult with less people in the House to distract him.
Does she see him as her threat? Is Terri out to eliminate the competition and win?
Alice Selfish in Final Days
Did no one tell Alice how to win BB? Surely a selfish act like keeping the treadmill in the House instead of letting Terri get her care package from home, including a gift from her grandson, won't do her any favours. Couldn't she just jog around the backyard for 4 more days?
I don't think Ben's decision to buy himself and Travis their care packages and leave Terri out was selfish, because she did get a letter from home the previous week, and Ben and Travis had gotten nothing. When Terri missed out on her package, Alice and Rory both concurred that they would have sacrificed their own packages to get Terri's, but when they got the second chance to get Terri's as well in exchange for Alice's beloved treadmill, her generosity was revoked and she flat out refused to give up her luxury for Terri.
I don't think Ben's decision to buy himself and Travis their care packages and leave Terri out was selfish, because she did get a letter from home the previous week, and Ben and Travis had gotten nothing. When Terri missed out on her package, Alice and Rory both concurred that they would have sacrificed their own packages to get Terri's, but when they got the second chance to get Terri's as well in exchange for Alice's beloved treadmill, her generosity was revoked and she flat out refused to give up her luxury for Terri.
This... is Big Brother?!
He's only been the main Big Brother for one year, but he has come to be known as "the funny Big Brother" after taking over from past Big-BBs Peter Abbott (01-03) and Nick Colquhoun (04-07). So after all this time, what does BB08's BB look like?
Not what you expected, right? Leon Murray has been with BB for many years and even had some on-screen time in BB04's UpLate where he would read a poem about the events of the week every Friday night. Here's his name in the credits of BB05 UpLate as an Editor:
It's weird putting a face to the voice. Like finding out Daniel Stern was Kevin Arnold's uncredited grown-up voice in The Wonder Years, or that Drew Forsythe (who I remember from The Miraculous Mellops!) was the man behind David Tench.
Now that BB has been outed, can he go on if the show is picked up by Channel 9 next year? Or would they source their own BB voice? Surely Mr Channel 9, Eddie McGuire, could do it. "This is Big Brother... the winner of BB09 will be a quarter of a mi-yen-airre!"
Not what you expected, right? Leon Murray has been with BB for many years and even had some on-screen time in BB04's UpLate where he would read a poem about the events of the week every Friday night. Here's his name in the credits of BB05 UpLate as an Editor:
It's weird putting a face to the voice. Like finding out Daniel Stern was Kevin Arnold's uncredited grown-up voice in The Wonder Years, or that Drew Forsythe (who I remember from The Miraculous Mellops!) was the man behind David Tench.
Now that BB has been outed, can he go on if the show is picked up by Channel 9 next year? Or would they source their own BB voice? Surely Mr Channel 9, Eddie McGuire, could do it. "This is Big Brother... the winner of BB09 will be a quarter of a mi-yen-airre!"
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Cast Members Jump From Sinking Ship
No loyalty around here anymore! 2 BB hosts have come out after the announcement of the show's axeing and said they wanted to leave the show.
Kyle Sandilands who only signed onto the show last year for the BB08 season says he is glad the show was axed and now he gets 6 months of his life back (presumably the period of next season). Was his plan to sign on to a show he hated and bring it down from the inside?
Even Mike Goldman told the Courier Mail that if the show was picked up for a 9th season, "I probably wouldn't want to work on it". Seems a bit funny that later in the article he says he doesn't know what he's going to do next. You'd think if he was planning on quitting at the end of the season he might have thought about future prospects!
I get the feeling they are distancing themselves from the doomed program to save face. (Gee, Kyle wouldn't be underhanded and selfish now would he?) Would they really have left if the show hadn't been axed? Only 2 days earlier Mike Goldman was saying on his live blog on the Courier Mail site that BB09 was defintiely on and how much he loved the show.
Also on the finale of Big Mouth last night, semi-regular panelist Tom Gleeson turned his back on the show, saying he was only upset that he had attached himself to a dud. I'm sure you had heaps of other offers Tom with that one joke you know-- "I have red hair!"
Kyle Sandilands who only signed onto the show last year for the BB08 season says he is glad the show was axed and now he gets 6 months of his life back (presumably the period of next season). Was his plan to sign on to a show he hated and bring it down from the inside?
Even Mike Goldman told the Courier Mail that if the show was picked up for a 9th season, "I probably wouldn't want to work on it". Seems a bit funny that later in the article he says he doesn't know what he's going to do next. You'd think if he was planning on quitting at the end of the season he might have thought about future prospects!
I get the feeling they are distancing themselves from the doomed program to save face. (Gee, Kyle wouldn't be underhanded and selfish now would he?) Would they really have left if the show hadn't been axed? Only 2 days earlier Mike Goldman was saying on his live blog on the Courier Mail site that BB09 was defintiely on and how much he loved the show.
Also on the finale of Big Mouth last night, semi-regular panelist Tom Gleeson turned his back on the show, saying he was only upset that he had attached himself to a dud. I'm sure you had heaps of other offers Tom with that one joke you know-- "I have red hair!"
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