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Wild Card Housemates
SimplyBBUK
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BIG Brother fans will get the chance to pick a wild card housemate this year.
TV bosses have decided to give viewers a say in who to throw into the house and cause mayhem.
A source said: “For years, fans have said that they want to choose housemates for the show and now they’ve got their chance.
“The lucky few will be brought out and do a Vote For Me piece to camera to explain why they should be chosen. Then it’s down to the public.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/250391/Big-Brother-We-ll-go-wild-/
TV bosses have decided to give viewers a say in who to throw into the house and cause mayhem.
A source said: “For years, fans have said that they want to choose housemates for the show and now they’ve got their chance.
“The lucky few will be brought out and do a Vote For Me piece to camera to explain why they should be chosen. Then it’s down to the public.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/250391/Big-Brother-We-ll-go-wild-/
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I actually thought about an idea similar to this a few years ago based on the America's Player twist from BBUS. On launch night the contestant chosen by the public is called to the diary room, and told that because he was selected by the British public as 'their housemate' he must follow the instructions that the public set for him.
Over the course of the series the British public via social networking are given the oppertunity to vote on a series of activities which Britain's Player must undertake, this can be things such as who he chooses to start a fight with in the house, who he attempts to flirt with and most importantly who he has to nominate for that week's eviction.
Will they give the wild card £100,000 too ?
Why can't Channel 5 come up with NEW things instead of recycling old ideas
Because the format is stale.
We live in hope of something new but all know in our heart of hearts it won't happen.
Aye my days of wishing Big Brother could emulate the success of TXF or BGT are over, tbh I wish Channel 5 had left well alone and Channel 4 brought it back in say 2015. At least then we would have had a great show then not like the zombie version we have right now.
It makes very little difference if the public does get to choose, given that we don't get to interview them multiple times as the production team do, we have no idea what the plans are for this year and how a HM might fit in with those plans, and putting things to a public vote will tend to favour the most mediocre contender as votes for the opposite extremes tend to cancel out. They may as well just roll a dice! Or better yet, take responsibility, do their jobs properly and pick a potentially good HM. :cool:
don't go thinking you are really getting a choice here,
you are merely voting for who the producers would have put in later on anyway.
nothing really new or inventive in this
Late entries are not usually a good idea, pointless, and also BB will probably be controlling what they do, which might make it staged.
JWC-2 = Wild Cards
Who wasn't especially good anyway. But credit to Ch 4 back in those days, they did go to a lot of trouble to make sure he didn't bring in any outside news that could damage the series: they kept him out of the UK and supervised until he went into the house.
If he hadn't gone in, surely the Brian/Josh row wouldn't have happened during Dowling's birthday, which lead to the massive Amma/Stuart row. Which was one of the best night LF to watch ever. And my first argument I remember watching on the show.
If they do the same thing this year, big whoop. If their candidates are that bloody fantastic why wouldn't they cast them in the first place?
I think they know the hardcore fans are pissed at them for recent things, especially the LF, so they want to bring the older fans back to BB2 and give them the chance to choose who goes in. Fair.
It's a decade old gimmick, dredged up from the obscurity and repackaged as something new and sparkly.
Or it is if the story is true or in any way accurate. Which is probably isn't.
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Well it won't be the thing stated "the thing we have never done before", so I'm still looking forward to see what that will be.
It probably is that thing, Jamie replied to a tweet about the wild card thing with a wink and he posted a picture last month of a case with some of the thing he's doing on it and it's initials were JWC which he said doesn't stand for Jamie With Contestants.
I doubt it. They probably all have a copy of the DVD.
ie. BWC, EWC
Only fair if the wildcards all get a fair edit
I really would like to think it will be OUR choice but I can sense a lot of selective editing so they get who they want in there after all