Category: big brother 9

Parker & Jen were the first power couple of the game and should have had a simple decision with no hard feelings. Instead, once Jacob opened his big mouth in Big Brother 9 Episode 2, they decided they needed to target him instead of the couple everybody was in agreement about (the overly annoying Sheila and Adam), making Jacob and Sharon the first team to be evicted from the Big Brother house. Having won HOH, Amanda & Alex now have the power. As those of you keeping tabs on the Big Brother 9 Spoilers page are aware, it’s been one of the more eventful first weeks in the house, which should make for an interesting show tonight.

Alex says he’s upset because he really didn’t want to win, since winning is generally not a good thing. Chelsia is not happy to see Amanda in power.

Amanda is displeased with her picture on the memory wall. Matt is absolutely in love with his picture. Jen makes a comment about her picture being first on the wall, a harmless comment that gets blown out of proportion, largely by her partner, who after overreacting last week is claiming that if he loses it will be because of her, rather than the enemies he’s made an effort to make in the house.

Allison’s letting her jealousy take control of her game, and she’s ranting about it to Parker. She threatens to reveal the secret about Jen and Ryan dating, which is just ridiculous and stupid.

Amanda tells the story of how her father hung himself when she was 21, a couple years ago. The last time she heard from him he was a voicemail message in which he told her she never answered when he needed her, so because of that he was going to kill himself. She says this is why she’s always happy because it’s better to be that way than be sad all the time. Her partner Alex also lost his father at a young age.

Allison doesn’t want to play other people’s game. Instead, she wants to play her own very stupid game. Those who need to trust her think she’s a ticking time bomb, which is not a good thing to have people thinking about you in this house.

Adam is uncircumsised, so of course Jen wants to see it. The mature level of conversation in the BB house is just so refreshing.

Allison needs to talk with someone, so she kinda sorta dances around the subject with Sheila, but doesn’t actually say anything worthwhile. She just lets her know she’s keeping something from her. I’d avoid her after that myself.

Rather than letting Allison spill the beans, Parker & Jen decide to tell the secret. He tells Alex and Matt that Jen and Ryan are dating. They don’t like that he waited two days to tell the secret, especially since he woke everybody up at 4am and yelled at them for not telling who called him a snake. Then Parker & Jen tell Natalie and Amanda, who are also pissed off.

Allison plays innocent with Matt, who likes her anyway, so he’s okay with it in terms of her role. Then he brings her out into the room with the others, where she and Jen get into how they hate each other.

Allison turns on the waterworks when she reveals this information to Joshuah, and he gets a bible for people to swear on that they all don’t know each other. Yeah, that worked so well for those who believed James when he swore on the bible in Big Brother 6. Matt doesn’t think it means anything because half these people aren’t even religious. He’s right to be skeptical. Even if it’s true that nobody else does know anybody, believing this little ceremony is just setting yourself up for being blindsided.

Alex and Matt form an alliance, and they bring Amanda and Natalie in on it, who are comfortable that they have a strong foursome that can control the house. They plan to win HOH or POV every single week. Silliness.

Allison doesn’t care whether her teammate hates her. She confides in Sheila, who knows what it’s like to hate her partner as well. They play a trick on Joshuah and pretend that they’re a lesbian couple. They know he can’t keep a secret, and he immediately goes and tells. Then they tell Chelsia, who believes it as well. Somehow, they believe this will help their game. Has Allison not been paying attention to the fact that she’s a target because she’s with a partner who is dating someone else?

Alex and Matt don’t mind Adam, and they let Sheila know that not only do they not mind him but they actually don’t like the way she treats him. Adam asks what he did wrong to make her hate him so much. She swears, calls him a loser, and runs off crying. She won’t win an Emmy, but it may win the award for biggest drama queen of the house.

If the HOH couple is not able to come up with an agreement, they’d be nominated, and the team that finished in second would be HOH.

Nominations
Sheila & Adam – Safe
James & Chelsia – Safe
Matt & Natalie – Safe
Neil & Joshuah – Safe
Ryan & Allison – Nominated
Parker & Jen – Nominated

As much as they may want to point fingers and blame each other, all four nominated people have played their own role in this, and none of them is being very smart. Alex is looking forward to them burying themselves even deeper.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

Normally, the cast members are able to control themselves to prevent any embarrassing footage from being shot. The only previous exception was David and Amanda from season 4.

Last night, just two days after the first episode of Big Brother 9, two of the couples hooked up. Dating couple Jen and Ryan had a very brief bout of sex in the bathroom. As if that weren’t enough, Matt and Natalie hooked up for her to give him oral sex (during which he told her he doesn’t want her to get attached to him).

Considering everybody has been partnered with their “soulmates” and all the contestants are single, looking for love, and in their 20s (Sheila notwithstanding), we probably haven’t seen the last of this. This season has the potential to become even more racy before it’s all said and done.

Big Brother 9 Episode 1 introduced us to a new cast with a new twist, teams of two. Sheila, the oldest member of the cast by 16 years, proved to be the least mature, while her partner Adam didn’t do himself any favors either (her shallowness/negativity is matched by his abrasiveness). Meanwhile, ex-couple Jacob and Sharon, who apparently dated since elementary school, were clearly not getting along well. Ultimately, Parker & Jen won power couple and $10,000, which will allow them to make quick work of one of the opposing teams.

Immediately after the power couple competition, Adam makes an off color and easily offensive comment, and Sheila jumps all over it, taking more offense to it than she would if somebody she actually liked said it. I would say she’s looking for reasons to hate him, but they’re so far beyond hate within the first two hours they’ve known each other that it’s just silly.

Jen’s already finding it difficult to pretend Ryan’s not her boyfriend. Great couple you picked to keep things a secret, CBS.

Alex and Amanda are both open to the idea that each of them could be the other’s soulmate.

Jacob tells the guys that Parker’s a snake. Then he takes it a step further and tells Jen this information. Dumb dumb dumb. She quickly runs inside and tells Parker, her partner. They walk back outside to confront him, but Jacob refuses to answer the question. So Parker wakes up everybody in the house in an effort to prove a point, and he calls a meeting to yell at people for calling him a snake. If people weren’t pissed off at him before, he’s giving them a really good reason to be now. Jen’s proud that Parker handled it by overreacting. Obviously, nobody fesses up, nor should they, as the target lies squarely on Jacob now.

Sharon tells Parker she promised she wouldn’t say who it was, but if he just stops and thinks, he’ll figure it out. She spins it so that Ryan’s got a finger pointing at him now, but that’s problematic since Ryan is Jen’s boyfriend. That leads her to tell him that Ryan is her boyfriend. Way to go. You managed to keep the secret for a matter of hours. So now Ryan has to tell his partner Allison as well. She’s not happy and doesn’t like or trust Jen, but all of the others admit they don’t trust anybody either.

Now Sheila hates Adam because he snores. She seems to be making an effort to get everybody else to hate him, too, which doesn’t make any sense since if they turn on him, they’ll turn on her, too.

Unlike HOH, with the power couple, there is no nomination. It’s just a straight up eviction decision. Parker & Jen decide to evict Jacob & Sharon. He really screwed over her game.

Sheila & Adam realize they got lucky. Now it’s just a question of whether they take that information and actually start behaving like partners.

HOH is up for grabs. The backyard has been turned into a tunnel of love. Eric & Jessica are here to host the competition. They’re still together, and were basically the only two somewhat likeable people we got stuck with in Big Brother 8. The teams have to match each other’s answers. This is an effort to prove how much they know about each other. Apparently. It’s obvious that the goal here is to make people find it amusing, as I have no idea what the heck is actually happening here. Natalie & Matt take the lead with 6 hearts. Allison & Ryan, Amanda & Alex, and James & Chelsia are in second with four. After James & Chelsia get the next question wrong, they’re unable to win, leaving it down to the other three teams. Amanda matches Alex to take the lead. Allison gets it wrong and is out, and Natalie follows. Amanda & Alex are HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 3, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

It’s a new season of Big Brother, and thank God for that because Big Brother 8 sucked pretty bad. The story line (“estranged” 40-year-old father with the mind of a two-year-old and his self centered brat of a daughter who thought everything was nooottt faiirrrrr allegedly got over their own egos and became very close… yeah, I threw up a little bit instead of saying “awww…”) and associated blatant rigging tainted what could have been a good season but just simply was never allowed to get off the ground on its own merits because the producers were just way too in love with the power the America’s Player twist gave them to care about anything else.

Thanks to the writers strike, Big Brother is being given the best time slot it’s ever had. While going up against American Idol the next few weeks isn’t particularly a good thing, this does mark the first time the summer staple has premiered during the regular season. Here’s what we do know. There will be no America’s Player twist this year (yay), and players will be combined into teams with their soulmates (as if) and will do everything together. Beyond that, it’s anybody’s guess. We don’t even know how long the season will run, as that’s something that will probably be decided as time goes by, perhaps dependent upon how well the show does in the ratings. They could rush it and have it done before April, or they could opt to keep it on through mid-May, with twists in the game from double elimination weeks to having the pairs split up after a month.

This is what I’d like to see this year. When the producers rig the show (and they will), I want it to be less obvious. How long do you give me before I’m disappointed?

Julie Chenbot is back with a cast of 16 in Big Brother 9: ‘Til Death Do You Part. All the cast members are allegedly single and looking for love, which they’re apparently going to find on a reality show. It could happen. The houseguests will be combined in teams of two with their Big Brother appointed soulmates, with whom they will do everything together, from voting to sleeping to being evicted.

Everybody’s allowed to enter the house like any other season, but the bedrooms are locked. The seven girls are the first ones to enter, and they’re waiting for the nine guys (one’s gay, one says he’s bi but seems to lean more toward the guys). Sharon and Jacob, who dated on and off for 12 years (uh, he’s 23 now) until he cheated on her, are about to be reunited. Hey, I saw this twist already in season 4. Jen and her boyfriend Ryan are the other twist that we’ve seen already in season 6. They will work together as a team and try to get through undiscovered, and if they do, they win half a million dollars.

Sharon immediately begins telling the women she’s pissed off that her ex is there. If she’s smart, she’ll use it to her advantage. Then again, CBS may just force them to work together.

Matt already wants to sleep with every woman in the house, and probably some of the guys as well. It’s just a question of whether he’s more in love with himself than any of them.

Alex takes a page out of Kail’s book, pretending he doesn’t own a company.

Julie breaks the news to the houseguests, telling them they each have a “perfect match” sitting in the room with them. Then she tells them they’re going to play as teams.

The pairs are:

Alex & Amanda (he’s happy about this)
James & Chelsia (she likes motorbikes, not one being pedaled across country)
Natalie & Matt (he’s happy she’s… breathing)
Jen & Parker (not her boyfriend Ryan)
Joshuah & Neil (there’s a surprise)
Jacob & Sharon (she’s not happy, but he seems okay)

The last two couples are stuck in sleeping bags.

Ryan & Allison
Sheila & Adam (he calls her ma, and she can’t stand him)

Some of the partners are stupid idiots and are immediately trying to put a wedge between themselves and their partners. They better get over it, or their time in the house will be short lived. Sheila says she’s too shallow to be with Adam (at least she’s honest). Sharon’s ready to punch something.

Now that they’ve got the teams, power couple is up for grabs. One member of the couple will be suspended in the air and lowered on the other partner, then they’ll both be hoisted back up. The last ones standing will win power couple. Allison’s not impressed with Ryan’s profuse sweating but doesn’t care and wants to be a team. Sheila quits at 5 minutes because she hates Adam. This is just pathetic. Can’t they just be thrown off the show for being babies? Neil and Joshuah are out at 9 minutes. Amanda and Alex are out at 28 minutes. Sharon and Jacob give up knowing they can’t win, but they worked together pretty well all things considered.

Now that half the teams are out, Julie makes an offer: whoever can bend down and grab a pillow will get $10,000 if they win, a big risk to take. Matt & Natalie aren’t interested, but the others try for it. Not worth the risk because not only will you possibly fall or at least strain yourself, but you also get people thinking “They already have $10,000, so they don’t need to win.” Jen grabs the pillow, as does Chelsia. Allison falls in the process, eliminating her and Ryan. Likewise, Chelsia falls in this effort. Parker & Jen negotiate with Matt & Natalie, promising them safety for the week. Since they have a pillow, Parker & Jen also win $10,000, in addition to being the power couple.

Adam’s hoping he and Sheila get kicked out. I can echo that sentiment.

Parker’s thinking of targeting Ryan & Alison… good luck getting that past Jen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 2, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

A look at the cast of Big Brother 9.

CBS has announced the cast of Big Brother 9, which premieres next Tuesday February 12 at 9PM EST. If you were hoping for just a straight up game with no lame twist, well, maybe you can hope for Big Brother 10 instead. This year’s cast is all allegedly single people who are in the house with their alleged soulmates. The one thing that I do kind of like the sound of is that people will be evicted in pairs rather than individually (if only they could have kicked out both Dick and Danielle on the same night last year).

Adam
29
Public Relations Manager
Del Ray Beach, FL

Alex
24
Staten Island, NY
DJ Entertainment Company Owner

Allison
28
Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Boston, MA

Amanda
23
Paralegal
Fridley, MN

Chelsia
21
College Student
Cedar Falls, IA

Jacob
23
Electrician
Dallas, GA

James
21
Riding Bicycle around the World (I don’t want to know)
Sarasota, FL

Jen
26
Bartender
Columbus, OH

Joshuah
25
Advertising Media Buyer
Dallas, TX

Matt
23
Roofing Foreman
Charleston, MA

Natalie
28
Bikini Barista
Salem, OR

Neil
29
Realtor
Los Angeles, CA

Parker
26
Paparazzo
Northridge, CA

Ryan
27
College Student
Columbus, OH

Sharon
23
Realtor
Olathe, KS

Sheila
45
Former Model
Reseda, CA

Cast photos after the jump.

As usual, stay tuned to dingoRUE for live blogs of the show.

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As with last year’s show, Big Brother 9 will feature content on CBS’ sister network Showtime. Big Brother: After Dark will air live feed footage from midnight to 3AM every night starting February 12 on SHO2.

As reported previously, Big Brother 9 could be back as early as January. Robyn Kass of Kassting Inc posted the following on her MySpace:

“Yep, the rumors are TRUE! We’re coming back a little earlier this year….. apply now!”

Applications are now being accepted at CBS’ website. Open casting began today and will run through December 8th in cities around the country.

NY Daily News spoke with executive producer Allison Grodner, who seems a bit less certain, but they definitely are ramping things up in preparation for the best time slot they’ll have had in… ever.

“We have been told by CBS to get ready for anything, so there’s nothing that is certain at this point,” Grodner said. “We want it to be special, because we’ve never done something like this before. I promise you it will be different from any other ‘Big Brother’ you’ve ever seen.”

She confirmed there are no plans for the America’s Player twist this year. Good riddance I say. If they’re going to rig the show, I want them to at least work at it.