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Sanfranjoshfan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Link

"the reason i was canned started from an attempted phone call to my girlfriend. I failed. It snowballed and they kept me there all week only to tell me at the same time i was expecting to go to the house"

The above is an excerpt from a long article at the link. Who knows? Interesting read, but at this stage, the number of sources at which the facts can be checked are quite slim.

C1mag

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dee however makes a good point. If they were all going to be told on the first night then why couldn't they tell Brandon to keep his mouth shut if he was told by his girlfriend/fiance? Maybe the issue with him was that one of the rules is no outside contact while sequestered. Hell I don't know. I've been doing paper work all day for tommorrow and I've been more curious about this than the boring case my boss is working on LOL!! Dang it I love BB!! You are right Laisey ... someone on here has probably thought of it whatever happened.

Bastable

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess he's HG # -1 to be evicted. Or is it zero?

Texannie

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am leaning towards the notion that he did goof and try to make a call. Arnie in all his infinite wisdom couldn't decide what to do, kept mulling it over and then at the last minute pulled him.

Hamsterlady

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They do the same thing to me here Laisey.

Forget recording it. Watch 20 minutes of local news, 5 minutes or so of the Early Show, then commercials...

Kinda like shampoo....Wash, rinse, repeat.

Sanfranjoshfan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right, Texannie...if any of the others were to break a rule later on but NOT get booted, it would not bode well for the idea of "fairness" that surely would be brought up in court if they sued!

Shadowkat

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bastable, I would guess that he won't be listed as the #1 hg to leave, only because the CBS site still is showing spaces for 13 hg's. I would think if they were going to count him as the #1 evicted hg, they would have left his picture on the site and put an X on it after Tuesday's show.

C1mag

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Didn't Krista try to take BB to court? Did it ever go to trial? There was a big discusion on that last year and I think the consensus was she didn't have a case based on some clause within her contract with BB. I know that most of these shows cover their butts by putting a clause in the contract that states that they have a right to change the rules as they see fit so I think the the "fairness" issue could be debated by A.S. stating that they had decided to amend that rule later on and legally they were protected by doing so.

Bastable

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, I'm sure. For our recordkeeping, though, I'm counting him as -1. There's no doubt he will be replaced with a backup. They always have alternates on hand.

(Anyone else remember during BB1 when they tried to get a bikini-wearing alternate into the house after Brittany was voted out, but the fans and the HGs would have none of it?)

C1mag

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't recall the bikini wearing alternate but I do recall the night they offerred them the cash to leave and had a female alternate all set to take that persons place and she played it up real good by saying she was ready to stir things up if she was allowed to replace the departed one.

Dipo

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought someone said last year that quite a few pople were sequestered in the hotel before the final people were picked for the show. I thought that was somehting that was mentioned by the former hg's; that they saw people sometimes in the gym and stuff. I was always under the impression that there were about 15 people and then the casting people narrowed it down right before the show. This is how they could have someone else ready to go. Did I make this up or does anyone else remember this????

Sanfranjoshfan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think if they booted someone for trying to make an unauthorized phone call, and then later someone else was caught doing the same and ended up with a 500K prize, there might be some good debate on the "fairness" issue.

I do think Krista wanted to sue and so did Chiara, I think. Stacey from Survivor 1 actually brought a suit against CBS, but that didn't work out for her either, as far as I know.

C1mag

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard the hg's mention several times about seeing many faces at the hotel where they were sequestered. I don't know if it was the time just before they entered or not. The interesting thing is that they had this cast all fixed and submitted the names to the public. Did they still sequester alternates after the 3rd? Well, wait a second... think about this! Since they were revealing on the first night in the house that ex's would be coming in and they would give any who wanted to leave a chance to go, would they have replaced that person with an alternate? If that is the case then there would be no problem in replacing Brandon with another sequestered person because they held the alternates in the hotel just in case someone walked out after hearing that an old ex might be coming in. Ok the sequestered alternates in this case works now for me because they were there to possibly replace anyone who walked out the first night because of the ex factor. I was having some trouble with sequestered alternates even after they published 9 of the hg's. This al makes sense now.

Laisey

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There was a question about Krista's suit in that telephone press conference with AS. I think all he said was that it was settled.

Sanfranjoshfan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think last year a couple of the HG (was it Will and Nicole?) had actually met in airport somewhere along the way on their trip in to L.A.

I remember some of them talking about seeing others in a group somewhere during the audition/selection process, but didn't know which of them were actually selected until they entered the house.

Texannie

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's right, Josh, I remember them talking about it.

Amac

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was just reading the "Brandon story" at BB4BBQ. The article says:

"Brandon said that visiting BB websites has been depressing."

Then the article goes on to say:

"By Wednesday, will anyone give a shit about Brandon anymore?

"Can you imagine if this guy had gotten on the show?!? He thinks it's bad *now*? Imagine when he came out of the house and saw BanishBrandon.com! He'd go into a coma. LOL!

"It's best he's gone - it doesn't appear he can handle being on Big Brother anyway."

Brandon gets depressed visiting BB websites. Gee. I can't imagine why.

C1mag

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hahaha.. It's the same shock value every year. I swear they search under rocks for these types of people.

Realrealityfan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wasn't there an alternate on BB1 that they wanted to bring on to the show because the HG's were so boring. They offered a lot of money for one of them to leave and had a gal from Florida ready to enter the house, but they all refused the suitcase..Also, haven't the previous HG's said they were kept apart from each other and didn't know who the other HG's were until the "class photo" in front of the house was taken and even then they weren't allowed to talk to each until they were in the house..so very likely this current group have no idea who Brandon is...

Laisey

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There was a lot of discussion last year about the Will/Nicole/Atlanta thing and I believe someone did a search of the LFP's and it was determined that the meeting was something Will made up for whatever reason Will made up things. I also remember talk about seeing people during the process. I think it was usually in the context of their physical appearance and a wish they had made it on the show.

Dipo

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Didn't someone mention they went on a Universal Studio's tour and saw some others. I seem to recall that some of the HG's recognized the other handlers and so thought they saw other HG's. It makes sense to me that they would have several extra's sequestered just in case, especially since they have the "ex's" twist.

Sia

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just looked at the CBS BB page and noticed that there are empty spaces between Alison's and Dana's names. Do the empty spaces interspersed between the hamsters mean that the names of the people not yet revealed fall alphabetically between the names already up there? (Of course, Brandon has been eliminate, so his spot might be replaced with a name that would go possibly in a different spot altogether.)

Laisey

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, that is the general assumption.

Shaggy2005

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
His site has now disappeared. . .
http://www.surfingbarrels.com/

The plot thickens. . .

Keiffer

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I would say that BB1 was more a failure than a success for just a couple of reasons. CBS people and AS productions who like them or not make their living from producing TV shows, and they ended up changing almost everything about BB from 1 to 2. They took out the public voting for evictions, cut back on the number of episodes, changed the sleeping arrangements, changed how the final winner was picked, cast a younger more open cast, the way the nomminated for eviction HG's are selected... Basically they changed everything about the show except the name, and the house that is used. Heck they even tried to give 2nd place money to like the final five to leave so that they could get some personality into the house.

Also, the first one was probably considered a failure on some level because it came out right after the first Survivor. That had gotten like 40 million people to watch the final episode,and the ratings for BB seemed low in comparison.

For this dude that in some way is not connected to the show anymore it seems that everyone talks about their integrity when they dont win. How many times have we heard "I wouldn't compramise my values to win" right after they lost? Because they say that, does not mean that much to me.