According to todays Daily Star the latest gimmick to hit BB could be a girl and her mum in the house.
Telly chiefs think a lass trying to enjoy herself whilst her mum looks on could lead to fireworks.
Sounds desperate to me as though the chiefs at BB are looking to have Jerry Springer/Trisha type confrontations. Imagine if the mum and daughter are a pair of chavs. Not attractive TV in my book.
Also the beauty of BB is that the house is made up of strangers who then form alliances which could make or break them. My message to the chiefs would be don't even go there, you're beginning to sound desperate.........

How many nails does a coffin need?

Mothers and daughters eh........

you get the idea that they don't have a clue. They're always meddling,trying to force things but if they cast the show right it should be a success on its own merits. They just need to get interesting people and not be so 20-30 years old obsessed.......

It does show a lack of faith in their own show.....How many gimmicks do they need?

Well, it could be Jade and Jackie...........

Hmmm it could work well if one or the other is introduced into the house later on, but it smacks too much of Celeb Big Brother, its not true though. Its way too early to know what exactly Big Brother has planned, we're going to get a lot of this between now and May.

too true...
some will be media red herrings
some will be chinese whispers/speculation
some will be plain hoaxes by FM

its all part and parcel of the countdown to big brother

and i like it

you're right presshardy, the speculation's all part of the fun. However, after reading Deans book I get the idea that Endemol have already chosen their winner before BB has even started

Daft idea, made up story. Can't the press wait until a bit closer to BB6 before running stuff like that? They haven't even had the auditions yet.

it might seem daft but you get the impression that they'll try any gimmick. I get your point about the auditions though, who knows what they'll throw up.....

I hope this is not true. The whole point of BB is to put 12 people, who don't know eachother, in a house for X number of weeks.

I also disliked the Ex's thing in the US BB, too.

so do I mate, it would just be trying to force confrontation instead of letting things happen naturally.....

i agree with you, lets just stop all the gimmicks and just have a bunch of strangers in a house together

now wouldnt that be a novelty

Yeah, it's getting to the stage now where having a 'normal' BB would be a bit of a gimmick..........

Very much so, as when they enter the house you can tell who has met who in the audition process.

i don't think that having 'total strangers' in the house was an explicit policy punted by the 'BB producers'..
with regards to entrants who know each other before applying, the only reference i can see in the "audition terms & conditions on Channel4's BB audition/faq-page" is that 'partners' ARE eligible...

i assume mothers or daughters would be auditioned as 'individual' applicants, regardless.
oooh!..it's still a dodgy-one tho'..by chance 'both' get thru..
if SPARKS fly,..especially while the 'moon' is turning,..remember!!..that is NORMAL!..hmmm..well at least when it comes to mums/daughters )

They did this in the last edition of the Italian BB -- a father and his daughter. They had been estranged, so the bosses thought it would create fireworks, but it was a terrible downer for everyone. The boys were afraid to flirt with the daughter because of the father; the father tried flirting with one of the younger housemates and everyone was disgusted. It made the first few weeks boring and uncomfortable.

Bad, bad idea.

[quote=cheeks]According to todays Daily Star [quote]


and thats when i stopped reading. c'mon the Daily Star for god's sake!lol when are they EVER right??

[quote=nickthegreek2k5][quote=cheeks]According to todays Daily Star
I think they get the date right sometimes!

Wasn't it the Daily Star that had a headline about Shell's eviction on the final Wednesday when we had all seen it was the cowboy?