Meet The Cast Of The Amazing Race 16

CBS’ award winning race around the world is back yet for another exciting season. This season is a bit special, because in addition to the new faces you’ll also see a few old ones. The faces aren’t former Amazing Race contestants, but they definitely aren’t strangers to the public eye.

Big Brother 10 Alum: “I’m an Adult Film Model”

After a while reality show seasons start to run together, and unless you’re a fan of a particular person you tend to forget who’s from what season, and why you cared about them to begin with. Now I’m not saying Steven Daigle, the gay rodeo champion from “Big Brother 10” was forgettable but, he’s made sure that he wouldn’t sink into the “pits of the forgotten house guests” that usually befalls anyone evicted in the first four weeks of CBS‘ voyeuristic summer phenomenon. How did he do that, you ask? Well, he’s gone the route of gay porn star. Sure he doesn’t call himself  a porn star; he’s chosen to call himself an “Adult Film Model,” but it’s a tomato/ tomahto situation, though one title is clearly classier.

Much thanks to TMZ.com for the video.

Lydia and Natalie Have It Out On The Radio

Natalie was doing an interview on B.B.A.D. and said a few negative things about the house guests and Lydia took offense.

Kevin Campbell from Big Brother 11 Tapes a Thank You Message

It’s been almost a week since the Big Brother 11 television experience has come to an end, but for the contestants, they are in the beginning of the next phase of the experience: interaction with the fan base. Kevin Campbell, who made it to the final three, has made a video for his supporters to show how much he appreciates them.

Video of Big Brother All Stars Kaysar, Danielle and James Snooping Around in the BB 11 House

The cool thing about being a former contestant on Big Brother is that you get to go to the finale and all the festivites that follow. But you aren’t supposed to hang out in the Big Brother house.

Last night Big Brother All Stars Kaysar Ridha, Danielle Reyes, and  James Rhine sneaked into the house and snooped around.  Then Kaysar (“what up Kaysar”) recorded part of their adventures for all the world to see.

Big Brother Week 11 – Jordan Hangs On!

Despite the silent hype around tonight’s episode of Big Brother, I didn’t feel that it was all that climatic. Even Jordan winning wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t like she was facing Kevin; she was facing this season’s biggest choke artist: Natalie.

Still, even though it wasn’t a surprise that Jordan won the second competition,  don’t think I wasn’t standing in front of my tv screaming, “GO JORDO GO,” because I was. Now with her victory. the stage is set for finale night. Jordan vs Kevin; East Coast vs West Coast, and sticking with this seasons theme: The Populars vs The Offbeats. I don’t hate Kevin, nor do I hate his game, but my vote is for Jordan to win simply because I like her more than I like Kevin. If all goes according to my plan, Natalie won’t even be in the final two.

Speaking of the final two, I feel it’s only right that I touch on the twist that was revealed tonight. You know, the twist that has all three house guests staying in the house until one of them is evicted live on finale night. At first I didn’t think it would change anything, but now that I think about it this twist could have a profound effect on the outcome of the game.

Normally, the final two would talk to the jurors on Saturday or Sunday, then everyone in the jury house would have the weekend and the earlier part of the week to think about the answers they got and discuss amongst themselves who they thought should win, and why. With all of this  happening in the span of two hours on Tuesday it really takes away the jurors chance to compare notes or to reflect on the answers the final two had given them.

I think the person who wins the final HoH will be the person to win Big Brother 11, because Jordan and Kevin are pretty much even as far as competitions won in the game as a whole.  I think for a lot of people it’ll come down to who could win the “big one.”

Leave us a comment and let us know what you think and you’d like to see win Big Brother 11.

Can Big Brother 11 Save Itself From the Impending Crash and Burn?

Big Brother 11 Heads Towards the Worst Ending Ever

We are at the point in the Big Brother season where I usually write my “Player’s Fatal Mistakes” piece. You know, the one where I review each house guest that’s been evicted to date and tell you where I think they sealed their fate. I’m not doing that this year.

One of  reasons there will be no “Player’s Fatal Mistakes” is because the set up of the game  in the early part of this season excluded certain people from eviction for the week. If a member of your clique won Head of Household, you were safe as well. It worked well when it saved people from being evicted for personal reasons instead of game play. It worked poorly when it saved underhanded game players from the fate they deserved.

But each Big Brother season is an experiment. Each season there is a theme that changes the rules of what is essentially a human chess game. CBS doesn’t know how the game will shake out in the end, or if the house guests will find a glitch in the game that can change it fundamentally (like the “six finger” plan made up by Nakomis in season 5, which later came to be known as “back dooring”). The entertainment  factor of Big Brother is based on the fundamentals of all competition reality shows: rules + personalities = good ratings.

And up until  last Thursday,  the ratings for Big Brother have been greatly assisted by the personalities of some of the house guests this season. Despite whatever Ronnie thought about his game play, viewers saw that he was playing too hard too soon, and honestly couldn’t get far in the game because of his strategic errors and social handicap. He would have been evicted much sooner were it not for the protection of the clique. We couldn’t wait to see him get his.

Jessie’s power in the house was really an illusion. He automatically had a built in alliance because of his clique, and others who clung to him did so because he came in as Head of Household and a former player. He was still the arrogant  meathead he was last season, and to make matters worse he showed the kind of man he was in his interactions with Lydia and Natalie. We watched to see if either of the women would wise up.

Chima’s brand of mean-spirited, man-hating, crazy added a big boost to the ratings. We knew it couldn’t last, but we hung in there to see how far her destructive personality would take her. And Lydia. The thing about Lydia’s personality in the game is that sometimes she was funny, and occasionally she had moments of clarity. Sometimes I wanted to pat her on head and say, “you poor thing; get some help.” And sometimes I wanted to throw a bucket of ice water on her and tell her to get a grip.

Everyone else, including  Russell, was kind of a throwaway. Russell played hard, and was a great competitor. And I thought he was cute, cauliflower ears aside. But I really didn’t miss him when he left. And I knew I wouldn’t miss Michelle, but she played a good game.

I could say how much I enjoyed Jeff and Jordan as a showmance, and Jeff as game player and a hottie, but I would be saying what most people are saying out there. Let me just say this, because it has been driving me crazy for weeks: TECHNOTRONIC is a proper noun. Doesn’t anyone remember the song, “Pump Up the Jam”? The  performers derived their name from the music genre known as “techno”.

But Russell screamed and screamed about technotronic not being a word. And sadly, in America these days the rule is that if you scream loud and long enough about something, it must be true.

But I digress. The bottom line is that once Jeff was voted out, America knew the face of the game was going to be ugly.  I don’t know what the ratings were for Big Brother last night, but I  could only bear to watch ten minutes of the show. We knew Michelle was going to get the boot, and Jordan can’t really hold her own.

Which leaves us with the possibility of a final two that actually make Maggie and Ivette of season 6 look popular. Evel Dick of Big Brother 8 sums the situation up in words that mirror my sentiment:

“The final three is so f***ing horrible this year that they are going to have a triple eviction and tell them all to kill themselves…”

It might boost ratings.

Big Brother 11 Week 10 – Michelle Gets Outsted and Final HoH Competition Spoilers

So,, Michelle goes bye bye. I can’t say I didn’t see it coming, but still her walking out of the house gave me yet another sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. As happy as I was that Jeff decided to get Russell two weeks ago I can’t help but think “what if?” What if Jeff kept Russell and he stayed true to his word? Would the final four have been Jeff, Russell, Jordan, and Michelle? We’ll never know, but still it doesn’t hurt to dream.

Now, let us take a look at our final three, Kevin, Jordo, and Natalie. Obviously they kept Jordan around because they feel they can beat her in any type of mind competition, and in endurance she’s not that great either. I hope that Jordan pulls out that competitive spirit that helped her to last longer than both Kevin and Natalie in the Graduation endurance competition.

Right now we’re about an hour into the competition and all three house guests are still going strong. So far there has been a torrential down pour, hurricane-like winds, and the log sped up. There was a moment when the log abruptly stopped and everyone nearly stepped off. The log had since then started back up, its rotation reversed so that the house guest have to walk backwards in order to stay on.

I’ll be updating this post as the competition develops so check back often.

Update 3 hours and 35minutes In

Jordan falls. The log stay still for a good 30 minutes before starting up again catching Jordo off guard and sending her to the ground. About three minutes after Jordan went inside Kevin and Natalie started discussing who would fall and it appeared that they decided Natalie would fall in 5 minutes. Almost immediately after they came that decision Natalie made Kevin promise to take her to final 2 and he did. He actually promised on everything he could possibly promise on so I’m inclined to believe he’ll keep her if he gets to make that choice. Either way Kevin wins stage one of the HoH.

Big Brother Week 9 – Jeff Gets Got!

Well, this season of Big Brother just went down the tubes. Not only did Jeff get evicted tonight, Natalie just won HoH. Then, to top it all off, she brought up Chima and said it was for her. I think it’s pretty obvious that the nominees this week will be Jordan and Michele. Not that it matters. The real power this week lies in the hands of the Veto winner, which I hope and pray is either Michele or Jordan. But with the way things went tonight I have a good feeling that Kevin will win the veto and evict Michele and Jordan will be left to fend for herself against both Natalie and Kevin.

That’s pretty much all I have to say about this week. It was nice seeing the standing ovation that Jeff got, and how Julie seemed genuinely happy to meet him. I guess he’ll walk into the Jury House tomorrow and have Lydia scream out “Karma is a bitch!” which should leave her to only be disappointed by Jeff’s response when he just laughs it off.

I never got that whole “Karma is a bitch” thing people say in the BB house.  It perplexes me because it’s usually said to somebody who played the game pretty much straight up and didn’t screw over the person who’s attacking them with the phrase. I guess it just goes back to that house makes people crazy, turning logic and sanity into words that lose all meaning after week 4.

Big Brother Week 7 – Bye Bye Lydia, Jeff Wins HoH

Tonight was a busy night on Big Brother 11. With Chima and Jessie gone from the house, the alliance that dominated the house for the last four weeks was decimated. The remaining three players of Natalie, Kevin and Lydia were desperate to stop the bleeding, hopefully by winning The Power of Veto and having either Kevin or Lydia taken off the block. Once they were off the block, the plan was to get Russell on the block and have his teammates back door him.

The problem was getting his alliance to see him as a threat and want him gone. In the television version, of Big Brother, Russell looked like he turned his back on Jeff by making a side deal with Michelle to go to the final two. In actuality, he has made deals with both Jeff and Michelle, but he is not “screwing anyone over” in his alliance at this point.

In the TV version, Kevin approaches Jeff and tells him that he wants to be down with him and shows how honorable he is by telling him that Russell is making all kinds of deals behind his back. This is the lie that is supposed to put the chink in the armor of the alliance. On TV it looks like Jeff has taken the bait.

In real life, Kevin’s plan worked only for a short time. The alliance all got together and figured out that Kevin was lying. Russell came clean about what he said to Michelle, and the issue was squashed. However, they didn’t let on to Kevin that they knew he was lying (hence, his conferencing with them before the veto ceremony, and his not knowing who to vote out when the they took no one off the block).

We are now waiting for the results of the HoH competition. Keep checking back to find out more.

Update: Jeff  has won Head of Household.

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