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July 8, 2004
Disappointed, Big Brother
Just a quick note about tonight’s daily show that I thought I’d sneak in before the eviction special. Last night on Up Late, Mike Goldman referred to Ryan having a hissyfit at Big Brother over failing the task and being asked to redo it. Unusual for Big Brother to put a negative spin on Ryan, don’t you think? And, after watching tonight’s footage, totally unreasonable.
What DID Big Brother expect the housemates to talk about? Why weren’t their revelations good enough for him? What, Kris - expecting some kinky sex stories you could use in the abysmal Uncut hour? Tough fucking luck.
As someone who went through a parents divorce and still carries a lot of baggage about it, I can appreciate how difficult it was for Trevor and Wesley to open up about their feelings regarding their parents, especially knowing that not only was it for the consumption of their fellow housemates but also the Australian public.
Ryan was absolutely right - what more did Big Brother want from them in that task? Blood? They did what you wanted. They passed the task fair and square. Just because you (and the vast majority of the Australian audience) have realised that this season of Big Brother has been a general disappointment does not give you the right to use food as a bargaining tool to gain gratuitous tales of their history so you can knock out a one hour special.
Bad form, Big Brother, bad form indeed. I’m extremely disappointed and yet not terribly surprised. Next time, don’t paint a housemate as a spoiled whinger when what they’re complaining about is a legitimate gripe towards Big Brother producers.
Later - Upon reflection, it probably wasn’t Trevor or Wesley’s fault the task wasn’t deemed as passable. I mean, as fascinating as stories of Ryan’s knee and football career are, I don’t think your indecision as to whether or not to go back to football was the biggest revelation you could give us, Fer-ryzie. Bless.
Posted by Jess at July 8, 2004 7:22 PM— Filed under Big Brother Bonanza 2004
Comments
Well fucking said short nod
Posted by: Adam | July 8, 2004 8:05 PM
What a total fucking load of crap this show has become.BB has taken a nice young boy and turned his life into some kind of crap. They should have never aired that shit about his family knowing he was about to be evicted (I would like to see Gretal locked in that fucking house so Australia can pick at her personality faults ) im sure there would be many.
Where is the fun stuff BB (stop trying to fuck up peoples lives and start showing some entertainment
Posted by: kay | July 8, 2004 9:04 PM
i agree, that was an incredibly negative eviction package. its like they tried to portray him as this sneaky lying jerk when hes actually a nice guy. and no time to show the fun he had in the house but plenty of time to show him discussing the divorce , which had already been shown just before on the daily show. this time poor wesley gets to share the discussion he had with the live audience and his mum and brothers who are all sitting there, the same convo that he worried to paul about even having discussed at all...i found that whole eviction of wesley disgusting , especially since it was orchestrated by big brother anyway... and why didnt' they just evict him on sunday with the rest and then he could have had his 21st in the house like he wanted...this new producer sucks
Posted by: dls | July 9, 2004 9:59 AM
I think his birthday is next week anyway.
Posted by: wilko | July 9, 2004 11:09 AM
Im glad you agree dls, I thought wes was just a nice young bloke. The kind of young man any mother would be proud of, as you said there probably was 1000s of good points they could have shown about him but they have chose to rubbish him The whole show seems to have a sour note this year
Posted by: kay | July 9, 2004 2:30 PM
As much as Ryan's discussions seem minor to us, it's probably a very big thing for him. As he said, he hasn't even told his coach or team about what he spoke about, so it'd be a big thing revealing to the country that he might not be able to continue footy. Seems like a minor thing for us, but for him, it's his life, it could've been his career. I think enough housemates revealed things that they wouldn't have otherwise - you can't expect them to reveal everything, everyone has their secrets and if you tell the nation, not really secrets anymore. BB should have more respect for their individual privacy.
Posted by: purrsian | July 10, 2004 5:26 PM