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Celebrity BB Post While Watching Thread (** Spoilers - See Post #1! **)
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CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER 2010: INTERVIEW WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SHIRLEY JONES
What is your role on Celebrity Big Brother? I’m the Executive Producer. My role is to come up with a vision for the show – the look and the feel of it, to put a cast together and steer a way through it. I work closely with Phil (Philip Edgar Jones), the creative director, and oversee all the different elements of it. We look after the launch show, nominations, how we change things, the tasks, and hopefully deliver a compelling show.
This being the last ever Celebrity Big Brother, are there plans afoot to give it a spectacular send-off?
I hope so! We’ve tried really hard to look at the show with fresh eyes to assess what we can improve upon, and what we can change, especially with this being the last one. We have introduced some changes, in the house, in the tasks, and with the launch show, which will be a bit different this year. We hope those changes will be surprising and unexpected. We’ve changed some little things this time as well. In the past six years, celebrities have been limited to just one suitcase. But there’s something quite interesting about letting them decide how much luggage they bring. What they bring says something about them. But that doesn’t mean it’ll be an easy ride. I think a lot of people feel that the celebrities get an easier time compared with the guys in the summer, and it’s not going to happen this time. I think they’re going to be in for a bit of a rollercoaster ride. We intend to go out with a bang.
Will it be a new house?
Usually Celebrity Big Brother uses the house from the summer series but there are some big changes this year. That’s all I am going to say right now though!
How do you go about recruiting for Celebrity Big Brother?
We have our celebrity bookers, and we all come up with a list of people we’d be interested in meeting. It can be difficult with celebrities, by the very nature of what they do, you don’t always get to know the real person underneath. Part of the beauty of Celebrity Big Brother is trying to peel off those layers and find the real person beneath the celebrity. So we want a mix of ages, genders, professions, backgrounds. Ideally we’d like celebrities who have never met one another, but it’s very difficult to be 100 per cent certain of who knows who. It’s an interesting challenge to get it right – do you provide great names that might not be as exciting as you hoped, or do you find lesser-known people who are great characters? It’s all a bit of a juggling process, but we are confident we have a diverse mix of people who we think will make for compulsive viewing.
What precautions do you take to keep housemates’ identities secret before the launch show? It must be like MI6 there.
It is! It’s one of those things where you can get someone confirmed right at the start, and then you’ve got to keep it a secret for five months. It’s really hard. Only a small handful of people know the identity of the celebrities we’ve booked. You have to trust people to keep it secret. We like people to be entertained and surprised on launch night. We even use code names for them: they stop being known by their real names. There’s always speculation, and there always will be, some of it’s pretty good and some is quite far off the mark. At some points in the past, the press has got absolutely the right person, but even then you never know if it’s just guesswork or if they somehow found out.
How far in advance is the final line-up confirmed? Have you ever found yourself desperately trying to recruit celebrities at the last minute?
We try as hard as we can to get them booked as far in advance as we can. But it’s an ongoing process, piecing together the right mix of people. I don’t think we’ve ever had to look for people at the last minute, but sometimes we decide who to choose from our list quite late on.
Has it been easier to get celebrities involved this year because it’s the final year of the show?
Yes. A lot of people have turned out to be interested this year, some of whom have really surprised us. They’ve said that as it’s the last one, they’re interested. That’s really nice, because it means we’ve got a wider pool of celebrities to choose from.
One of the most popular elements of the show over the years has been the tasks. Can we look forward to the usual creative brilliance on that front?
The task teams have worked so hard to be even more creative than they’ve ever been. I think this series will have some very interesting and unique tasks, the likes of which we’ve never had on the show before. I think people expect the getting dressed up in costumes and performing, but it’s worth staying tuned to see what we’re going to put them through, because it will be different.
The filming process must be pretty intensive for you. How much time do you spend on site during the series?
I’ll be there every day. Every waking moment is spent on the series. Even if I’m not there, I’m on call 24 hours a day. I’ve written off January already. But when you’re there, you don’t really want to leave it, to be honest. You just sit there watching what’s going on in the house, and it’s really hard to leave it. I’m really excited about it; the whole team’s excited about it.
What have been your favourite Celebrity Big Brother moments over the years?
There are always the ones that stand out that everybody chooses, and I’m going to be really predictable and say the same ones. I loved John McCririck, he was a great housemate. And the moment Jackie Stallone entered was superb, especially because we’d planned it. George Galloway being the cat, and George and Pete Burns doing the robotics were brilliant. Last year, Verne Troyer crashing into the diary room door on his scooter. Every series you hope you’re going to get that YouTube moment where you want to watch it over and over again, and you laugh every time you see it.
What, to your mind, would make the perfect Celebrity Big Brother this time around?
I’m looking forward to seeing the celebrities doing some of these new tasks, because they’re really going to be something to watch! I want a bit of unpredictability, and we always want some laughs. Everyone always says “Oh, you just want people to fight all the time,” and actually that’s not really true. We want it to entertain, and seeing a celebrity do something that’s funny is great. I hope that it’s going to be a bit of a rollercoaster, and I hope that we go out with a bang. The best thing would be if we could finish and people say “I’m sorry that’s gone.” If we leave on a high and we’ve all had fun and it’s been an entertaining ride, then I think we’ve all done our job.0 -
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Ahh crap .. now Kerry's now going in
Kerry Katona is not allowed in Big Brother..
Just when she thought it couldn't get worse..
We can reveal that soon to be homeless Kerry has had a shocking reality check after being REJECTED by Celebrity Big Brother for failing psychological tests.
The faded star had been banking on taking part in next month's Channel 4 show - and hoping to then bank the £250,000 cheque that comes with it.
Friends say the bankrupt mum-of-four was ecstatic after meeting in secret with the show's producers and then sailing through the interview process. But earlier this month she was sent for an assessment with a psychiatrist - as all would-be housemates have to do - and deemed UNFIT to appear.
Last night a close pal of the 29-year-old, told the News of the World: "Kerry is heartbroken - it's the first offer of work she's had in months and she's failed it because she isn't mentally well enough."
Offers of work have dried up for the former pop star since we exposed her for snorting cocaine. Last week we revealed how she will be evicted from her £1.5 million Cheshire pad for failing to keep up with mortgage payments.
And after losing a £250,000- a-year deal with supermarket chain Iceland, Kerry thought Celeb BB would rescue her from financial hell. Our source added: "Kerry believed Big Brother would resurrect her career and make the public warm to her again, like they did when she won I'm A Celeb.
Medication
"She has bipolar disorder but controls it with medication. When she came back from the interview with the psychiatrist, she thought she'd done really well.
"But when Kerry got the call saying the deal was off, she was horrified."
The line up for the last ever Celebrity Big Brother is rumoured to include former boy band star Dane Bowers, US rapper MC Hammer, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Jordan's on/off lover Alex Reid.
Boy George was also hoping to be a housemate but a High Court judge banned the singer because he's still on licence after his early release from prison, where he was jailed in January for imprisoning a male escort.
A show insider said: "Kerry would have been a huge boost to ratings. But she failed the psychological tests and we can't take that risk after what happened to Susan Boyle for example."0 -
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WesternNight wrote: »I have to say, I'm delighted to hear that Kerry Katona won't be going in. I think it would do her a lot more harm than good.
Yeah, but secretly you a likkle gutted as it would be amazing TV
I argree though, I said similar regarding Gazza.
I hope they put in some older people like Jackie Stallone again as people like that are totally themselves, they have no agenda at that stage in life.
I could have watched Bez and Jackie trying to communicate with each other all day
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OutlawPete wrote: »Ahh crap .. now Kerry's now going in
This is one decision C4 got right.
For the sake of her children she is better off being turned down.
She came across as being unable to say no to alcohol while pregnant in her TV series and not taking her meds means she was and probably still is unstable.
On top of that, being pictured taking cocaine just shows she needs help rather than a stint in the BB house.
I wish her well for the sake of her children but the right decision was made by C4s psychiatrists imo.0 -
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Jaysus, it's like a Palace .. :eek:
Maybe that's to lure them all into a false sense of security .. then BAMB!!!! .. no Diet Coke
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OutlawPete wrote: »Jaysus, it's like a Palace .. :eek:
Maybe that's to lure them all into a false sense of security .. then BAMB!!!! .. no Diet Coke
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Pamela Anderson Doubt It
Dane Bowers Twat (Hope Not)
MC Hammer (Nice One .. Hammertime)
Lady Sovereign (Who??)
Paul Danan (LEGEND .. he's great value, mad as a brush)
Vinni Jones (Interesting .. not as nice a guy as people think)
Ekaterina Ivanova (another Who?)
Stephanie Beacham (Wowzers .. GILF alert!!)
Alex Reid (meh)
Brooke Kinsella (Who? again)
Russell Grant (Good craic I'd say .. his wrong in-house predections should be fun)
Ivana Trump (Never gonna happen - she's a Billionaire, what would be her motive)
Nicola Tappenden (Another Who?)
Heidi Fleiss (Total bitch and she'll shag in the house, you read it here first)
/Off to Google the Who??'s 0 -
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Sharpshooter wrote: »I'm interested in who actually goes in seeing that it is the last one..
Interested?? :eek:
I'm biting my nails down here, F5'ing The Sun's hompage, as the Celebs names are usually revealed the night before by them :pac:
Wooo hooo.
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OutlawPete wrote: »Interested?? :eek:
I'm biting my nails down here, F5'ing The Sun's hompage, as the Celebs names are usually revealed the night before by them :pac:
Wooo hooo.
Love CBB
I don't want to get too excited in case some of the names are just hype to get viewers for the launch tbh.
Fingers crossed that's not the case.0 -
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Im back with a vengeance
Im looking forward to celebrity big brother, cant wait infact
Over the next two weeks we are gonna have alot of folks coming by looking for troubles.
Mean folk who got no pasttimes of their own.
They'll be coming into town all rowdy and be saying things like CBB ain't no good and the like.
I say we ignore these troublesome folks and just confuse 'em with talk of whiskey and chewing tobacco.
I'm sure Sharpshooter be polishing her pistols and might even be able to cut 'em off at the pass.
/Now, you'll have to excuse this here outlaw, I need best be ordering a chinese before they close.0 -
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