Cassandra on Early Show

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Karen

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 05:28 am Click here to edit this post

When is Cass gonna be on the Early Show? I thought it was to be this morning (Mon, Sep 18) but Gervase was on instead. Anybody know?

Judy

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 05:43 am Click here to edit this post

Well she was just on for a quick uneventful chat with Julie Chen (This after a leisurely 20 minute chat between Bryant and Gervase)

Nothing new. Rehash of her interview when she left. That is because she refuses to address anything that she did not personally experience in the house. Has not watched the tapes says she WILL NOT watch them and is not watching the show or feeds since being out.

Hammer

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 05:44 am Click here to edit this post

She was on 5 minutes after you posted, hopefully you caught it if you're in the east.

For those that missed it, she really didn't say too much. She said she isn't watching the tapes of the show that she was given and she's not going to tune into the daily show (she said in the AOL chat she wasn't watching the tapes until after interviews are done, she didn't qualify her statement this time). She doesn't want the tapes to taint her experience. She has spoken to several families, including George's wife. She had her ribs and shake. She wants Pugita to win the money, and she doesn't know who the public will pick to win. She also repeated the reasons why she didn't get involved in the racial talks in the house.

Karen

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 05:45 am Click here to edit this post

Okay so I'm impatient! :) Here is short synopsis

Julie wondering if people recognize her

C:Yes.. feels good being recognized.. don't feel like celebrity. yes, have given a few autographs

J: you have Box full of tapes.. not watching them, why?

C:Want to stay true to experience.. want to get reconnected to society.. have to focus on outside now.. my top priority is the future. don't think it would be healthy to

J: Who have you talked to?

C: talked to teresa, geo's wife. Told her thought he was doing okay.

J: how about controversy?

C: Didn't talk about that.. I'm aware of it.. but really don't want to delve into that now.

J: How about how you came across?

C: From the first.. when greeted by mom and friends they gave a very positive picture how i was portrayed.. Happy with perception of public

J: Do you regret taking $50K?
C:No. that was right decision for me.. matter of integrity

J: I noticed you sometimes steered away from certain topics.. like race..

showed clipped of Cass in RR.. of not talking about race

J:why?

C:felt it was not appropriate as only black to be talking about it all the time. I participated in discussion but there is a time and place for confrontation.. not time or place to try and change Eddie's mind about "racism not being a problem"

Karen

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 05:48 am Click here to edit this post

oh yeah.. when asked who she thought would win.. didn't answer.. just that she will leave that to public to decide.

Then asked who she WANTED to win.. she said Pugita.

Master of "non-answers" the whole interview.

Beckyg

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 08:10 am Click here to edit this post

It would have been a better interview if Julie had asked DIFFERENT questions than the ones she had already asked Cassandra on the banishment show!! She asked practically the exact same questions!!

Battlestar

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 09:13 am Click here to edit this post

Bryant must have refused to do the Big Brother interviews !!

Could have smacked him when he kept going on and on with Gervase about Greg, Colleen and Jenna. If he is so blasted interested--ask one of them !!!

The Gervase interview wasn't a leisurely 20 minutes---started at 8:15 and ended about 8:22--I missed the first part of Cassandra so I don't know how much time she got.....

I would have loved to hear the conversation that Gervase and Cassandra had--they must have met back stage

Judy

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 09:33 am Click here to edit this post

Sorry for exaggerating - I guess it only SEEMED like 20 minutes -I didn't really time it -

I just remember Bryant and his co-host talking to Gervase while he stood in the wings, then Bryant had a sit down with him which had a commercial break in the middle "Now we are back with Gervase!" -and then talked with him some more.

WHEN are Bryant and Colleen getting married anyway??!!;)

Did anyone else see the lady in the crowd out front - whom the weather man chatted with??!! She had a "Cassandra for President" sign and said she was from "Mediajammers"

The weather dude kinda made fun of her - questioning if he should have spoken to her - then said "I am glad I did , you're cute" To which she interrupted the guy while he was cutting to a graphic - and then he could be heard saying "No, you're not too fat to be cute"

Bizarre

Zlfd

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 09:43 am Click here to edit this post

I wish Cass would liven up a bit. I really respect her but you can go the other way and be too boring. I almost forgot she was even on the show. I don't see her as being on anything else too soon if ever. Cass dear you are great liven up a bit don't be such a diplomat we loved you!

Marysafan

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 09:46 am Click here to edit this post

Interesting note: Cassandra's cousin is accompanying her on her media tour today. He said that the interview was originally scheduled to be with Bryant Gumble but CBS changed it to Julie Chen in order to give her more credibility. (he claims he couldn't have possibly made that up! lol)

Janessa

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 10:54 am Click here to edit this post

About Cassandra's interview being originally scheduled to be with Bryant Gumbel, hmmmm...not that I'm doubting the honesty of Cass's cousin, but I seriously doubt that was the case. Bryant has not done a BB interview since Jordan. (yes he was not on the show when Karen and Brittany appeared, but I think even if he had been present, Julie would have done the interview.) Bryant has made it VERY clear he is not a fan of BB, like he is with survivor (judy, LOL when you asked when Bryant is marrying Colleen!)When Julie did segments on BB (which she used to do on Fridays, don't know if she does anymore), he asked questions that make it obvious he has no idea what is going on on the show.

I remember watching the Early show a few days before William got banished. Julie was doing a piece on William. Bryant and Jane got into a discussion. Bryant said he had never seen the show, it didn't capture his interest. Jane said she tried to watch it but couldn't keep up. She said "And why doesn't anybody like this Will guy?" (I am not making this up!)

With the Will and Jordan interviews, Bryant made allusions to watching tapes of the show before the interview -he never said anything about watching the show (like he does with Survivor) I think once BB started getting criticized in the media and it was obvious it was not going to be as big as Survivor, he and Jane wanted to back away from BB as quickly as possible. Notice they gave the 8:15 slot (which had belonged to previous BB interviews) to Gervase.

Time will tell. I wouldn't be surprised to see him do the interview of the winner, but for the next two banishees, I would expect to see Julie.

Janessa

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 11:07 am Click here to edit this post

As far as Cass's media tour, I will be interested to see if she shows up on Entertainment Tonight and E! I noticed that Jordan and Will had interview segments on both shows, but Karen only had E! news Daily (though ET did a piece on her kids at banishment time) and Brittany didn't get featured on either. And their David Letterman dreams have obviously been dashed. :-)

Cass may be on tonight, but I have to wonder if the fact that they get banished on Wednesday and not interviewed until Monday (whereas Jordan and Will did interviews the Friday after banishment) hurts them in terms of being "old news". Heck, Bob Goen, the co-host of Entertainment Tonight, was in the audience this morning when Jenna from Survivor co-hosted with Regis to do a piece on her. So we'll see tonight.

Squib

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 11:32 am Click here to edit this post

Seeing how spontaneously and exuberantly Cass laughed and hugged her friends and her mom after the show really pointed up to me how different she probably is IRL than she was on the show.

I admire Cass but I still think she shut herself down too much on the show. She came across as a prig and stick-in-the-mud.

Evidently she's still in "protective" mode, because she was still being bland and political during her Early Show interview.

Lawyerman

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 04:16 pm Click here to edit this post

Cassandra's Early Show interview can be found here:

http://cbsnews.cbs.com/earlyshow/entertainment/celebspot/0714bigbro_videos.shtml

Janessa

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 08:03 pm Click here to edit this post

Well, just to update my previous message, checked the VCR and Cass showed up (for 15 seconds) on E! News Daily, where they quoted her as not watching the show. She didn't get any airtime on CNN Showbiz Today or Entertainment Tonight.

Dee

Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 09:16 am Click here to edit this post

I like Cass, but find it annoying that she believes she is taking the high road by not watching any of the tapes. Why would anyone want to interview her? We've watched her every night for almost 3 months and now she is on interviews talking about nothing more than what we already know! It's always been interesting to hear the perceptions of houseguests once they are out of the house -- Cassandra is still in BB fantasy world.