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Jdctexas

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 03:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to admit, I'm going to this year. There are several reasons for doing it...other than $500K (the main reason). Besides, if it all goes well, it's three months off from work and getting to know (and argue with and backstab / be backstabbed by...and yes, I'm saying that with tounge-in-cheek) eleven new people.

Maris

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I enjoy watching the feeds too much to be part of the game plus I would be evicted before I even had my first peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Keep us all posted Jd, if you apply.

Karuuna

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 05:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh my heck. After reading how folks post here about the houseguests, I'd never ever apply. If I'm all that awful, I'd really rather not know.

Jdctexas

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 06:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I have done my share of blasting hamsters in the past (on another message board) and I have to admit, it could be very interesting to hear what everyone has to say.

Personally, I think it will be a blast. The downer of course is no contact with the outside world (Send me a banner!). Three months without the internet...well, everyone will see me going through withdrawls on the live feeds. :-) Could be horrid! LOL!

Pamy

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 07:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Keep in mind if anyone from this board is on BB, we would never talk bad about ya, we would totally be rooting for you!!!! We would be watching waiting for you to sneek in words such as clubhouse, moondance, car54, bunny, aubergine, Seamonkey, etc!!!!

Jdctexas

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL! I'll have a fan club before I get in the house. Think they'd let me get away with "Clubhouse" t-shirts or hats? I'm going into this with the attitude that I WILL be one of the 12 hamsters...and I will work in as many plugs for you guys as possible (lets see how many FOTHs I can cause).

Abbynormal

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jd, I believe the offical code word is "rosebud", should a TVCHer ever find themselves on a reality show. Just think, the possibilities for a guy to use this word in a conversation are limitless!

Pamy

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 08:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Abby!

Jdctexas

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 10:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If they have another "chicken liver" type contest, I'll think of a way to work in rosebud, I promise. LOL!

I have had fun watching the shows. I really didn't get into the first season. I admit, was sucked in after the knife incident in the second season. Then on, it's been fun to watch...so what the heck. If I don't make it, I'm only out some postage, a VHS tape, photos and some paper. The odds of getting on are better than winning the next Texas Lottery. ;-)

Squaredsc

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
jd, go to belly's, thats a surefire way to get on the show. and plz mention aubergine if you can. i would really appreciate it.

Jdctexas

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah...thoughts of the old "Chilltown" days. LOL! I wonder if Will and Mike still hang out together (sounds like a new topic)?

Ginger1218

Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, could you just picture you and me and Bastable and Goddess in the house. Throw in Sadiesmom and Kristybb and it would be quite a firestorm. LOL

Anyway, I could never get off from work for 3 months. And let my coworkers see me on TV all the time. No way. I am too private for that.

Ryn

Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 10:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Interesting (though short) article this week in TV Guide about "how to get on reality shows"

Part of the last paragraph (info from a casting person):

Frank says his casting ratio is "about 10% videotape, 30 percent at casting calls and 60% recruiting." That means he finds most people scouting around malls, beaches and nightclubs.

Sounds about right - lol

Tabbyking

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i thought they found 99.9% hanging at belly's! sounds about right, alright!

Spygirl

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 02:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Tabby...well, the only way I would be happy with another connection out of Belly is if it is Moondance :)

Tabbyking

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
spygirl, i'll bet someone in production reads these boards and if they find out one of 'us' is auditioning, they won't pick us. however, if we run our guts by belly's, i mean run our belly's by tummy's, i mean, if we boogie on down to see a creep, i mean, if we creep on down to see boogie, (phew, got it out!), we could negate the negative associated with being one of us negative 'web' people (who incidentally, all weigh 300 pounds, so there go the bikini shots) and maybe have a S.H.O.T. at F.O.T.H. ......hee hee
go, moondance, go moondance......

Bastable

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday, to prime myself, I watched some old tapes of the evictions during BB1. Still blown away by Brittany's "banishment"--the worst upset in BB history.

I don't miss that awful banana yellow house with the dark blue tiles. Or the garden where the basketball court is now.

Or Jamie thinking she's a real TV host. Or Regina Lewis the "AOL Online Advisor." Or Dr. Drew Pinsky.

One funny thing: When he "marked" her for "banishment," Josh said Jamie didn't need the prize money because she had a lot of stock in an Internet company! LOL! She got the boot.

Those old shows hold up a lot better than I thought they would. The way people forget about BB1, you'd think they shot it in black and white! The post-eviction interviews, for one, lasted about 15 minutes and were really excellent.

Spygirl

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, that is one of the funniest posts I've seen on this board!! LOL

ahhhhhh...the good ole' days, Bastable :)

Grooch

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Central Pa. native gets ‘real’ on TV

Joshua Grim, 25, has appeared on two reality TV shows in the past year. He might be going for a third.

By PETER BOTHUM
Daily Record staff
Wednesday, March 19, 2003


It might seem like Joshua Grim is some kind of reality show addict.
Last fall, the 25-year-old East Berlin native was on the Warner Bros. Network’s “elimiDATE,” where cameras followed Grim as he wined and dined four different women in the same day.

Then, earlier this year, Grim was on the controversial Fox show “Married By America,” where prospective bachelors are vying for a chance to be a part of an arranged marriage that viewers help to set up.

And since being bounced from “Married By America,” CBS has contacted Grim to audition for the fourth install- Ť ment of its “Big Brother” reality show.

Believe it or not, Grim never asked for any of it.

It all started last July, when Grim went out for a night on the town after his job at a New York investment firm. While at one particular trendy Manhattan bar, recruiters for “elimiDATE” approached him and asked if he’d be interested in auditioning for the show.

So he did — why not do something a little wild and crazy?

But maybe Grim didn’t realize just how wild and crazy it would be.

Eight straight hours of dates. With four girls. One of whom took her top off to try and become the chosen one.

Suffice it to say, Grim didn’t select the girl who thought she was at Mardis Gras. He did pick one of them, although the relationship didn’t last too long.

“We ended up going on one more date and that was it,” said Grim, who graduated from Bermudian Springs High School in 1996.

So the WB aired the episode of “elimiDATE” last September, and Grim’s friends and parents got a hoot out of it.

“I have to admit, I watched ‘elimiDATE,’” said Joshua’s mom, Jennifer, who lives in East Berlin and admittedly doesn’t care for reality TV. “I mean, I’m gonna root for him.”

And that was that for Grim and the whole reality TV thing.

Or so he thought.

In January, Grim met a bunch of friends at a posh club called Sutton Place in Manhattan. Somehow, a pack of reality TV recruiters found him again, only this time they were looking for people to try out for “Married By America.”

The Fox folks were way more demanding than the people from the WB Network. Grim had to sign a voluminous confidentiality agreement and was sequestered in Los Angeles for weeks while the show was being taped.

Grim was, in essence, trying to become engaged to a woman he never saw or met. He appeared on the March 3 and March 5 episodes of the show. As part of the show, he met in an isolated room with a few members of the woman’s family and a couple of her friends.

“And it’s clearly an interrogation room,” Grim said. “It’s not a cozy place.”

The five acquaintances of the woman lobbed some of the most probing questions that Grim had ever been asked. Grim wouldn’t go into any details about what he was asked, but he did say the queries were explicit.

“It was grueling. I expected it to be more of a family thing, like ‘How are you?’” Grim said. “They thought they were Robert DiNiro in ‘Meet The Parents.’”

Essentially, they were. Because had they given the OK to Grim, and then America voted in approval of him, he would have gone on to become engaged to their loved one. And, should they go on to get married, they would have a chance to win $100,000, a luxury car and a house.

But the family put the kibosh on Grim, and he was off the show in two weeks. His mother, for one, was breathing a little easier.

“We’re so relieved that he didn’t have to go through any further humiliation,” Jennifer Grim said. “To me, it’s a risk. Go on TV, and get married.”

Next up could be CBS’ “Big Brother,” where 10 men and women are isolated in a posh Hollywood house and followed around by cameras for months on end. York County residents know what kind of shenanigans can take place on the show, as York native Hardy Ames-Hill made it to the closing rounds of “Big Brother 2” back in 2001.

Grim just might go for it. But he’s still kind of wondering why he keeps getting hit up for these reality shows.

“All these shows are random. I’m not seeking Hollywood fame or anything like that,” Grim said. “It’s not like I was seeking out ‘elimiDATE.’ I didn’t even know what it was.”

If Grim does make it on “Big Brother 4,” his parents and friends will be rooting him on.

But his mom will be rooting for something else. She’d rather her son wasn’t selected for the show.

“I hope not,” Jennifer Grim said. “I think he’s probably had enough.”

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Jdctexas

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 06:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, on a side note (a the person who started this thread), I am now not going to apply for BB4 thanks to a Dallas - Fort Worth (where I live) drunk. In short, a drunk hit me and my left leg was shattered. I'm doing fine, I had to go through a couple of surgeries and do physical therapy.

With that said, I'm looking forward for to watching BB4. I'm going pay for the live feeds and let me be the first to throw my hat into the ring for helping with live updates. I'm smiling, the chin is up and and everything is working out...I'm just walking a bit slower right now.

Pamy

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry to hear that JD, I will look forward to your live feed updates! Don't forget there is always BB5!!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 02:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
from zap2it...you got about 3 weeks left...

Applications Available for 'Big Brother 4' Shut-ins
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 02:10 PM PDT





LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Ready to have your personal freedoms taken away in the name of television ratings? Ready to have your every move monitored by representatives of a multi-national corporation and examined by Julie Chen? Ready to spend your summer under the national media microscope being mocked and adored by TV publications looking for something to fill space between the seasons? Then casting process on CBS' "Big Brother 4" may be just the ticket.

The prize for the claustrophobia, backstabbing and surveillance-style canoodling could be a victory and $500,000. Or it could be ignominious defeat and a Playgirl pictorial like Josh Feinberg of "Big Brother 3."

Applications are available at CBS.com. Would-be contestants also have to send in a two minute videotape explaining why they'd be the ultimate housemate and send two color photos of themselves. All materials are due Friday, April 18.

Once again, the show will be produced by Arnold Shapiro and Allison Grodner.

"Allison and I are excited to reprise our role as executive producers of 'Big Brother,'" says Shapiro. "We promise more surprises, new twists and turns and the most memorable group of houseguests yet."

So if you're feeling surprising, twisty or memorable, the chance to apply is just clicks away.

Jdctexas

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool...glad to see that the ball is rolling! Yet another sign summer is right around the corner

Jdctexas

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 02:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy,

I'm thinking ahead to BB5 since CBS picked up BB for this year and next (if the rating are good). The leg will be ready by then...and so will I! :-)

Now, I just wish it was July. I miss the show...I even miss the FOTH. ;-)

Grannyg

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jdctexas, check this out!!

I love Reality

It's Ryn's site and the front of the house is there!!