Big Brother Craze

So, that surprise. Yeah, I’m still waiting - times two, and soon to be times three! It’s like people have discovered lives outside of the Big Brother House… odd that. (grins)

However, while we’re waiting - everyone who stops by knows that I am a huge Jessica and Eric fan, and like everyone else, I’d be thrilled to see more of them in any way possible. Some of their fans have launched a campaign that aims to get Jeric on the next season of The Amazing Race and have asked for me to let you know where to get more information!

Here’s the announcement Alexis sent my way:

Would you like to see Big Brother 8’s Jessica and Eric compete on The Amazing Race? Join the fan campaign to get them cast on the show! Fans are flooding CBS with letters and woobies to show our support for Team Jeric. To get involved, please visit the fan campaign website at http://loripadillaphotography.typepad.com/teamjeric/ for information, updates, funny promo videos, and exclusive pictures of Team Jeric with Woobie in New York and Kansas.

Also, here is the campaign video to inspire you.

If you support getting Jessica and Eric cast on The Amazing Race, please help us spread the word! This campaign is being conducted entirely by fans like you, and we need everyone’s help to make it a success.

Thanks,

Alexis and Jim

So, while I was sitting here in my friend E’s house, she says “Hey! Did you know the studio house that houses the Big Brother House is right down the street?” And I went …um. NO!… and she was all “wanna go see? It’s just a building, but well, you can see it…” and I said um… YES! Would I be a total fan girl if I bypassed this opportunity? Exactly my point.

And naturally, she stopped in the no parking tow away zone so I could get as close as possible to click a picture JUST so that I could share it with you. She’s most awesome, E!

Gotta love Hollywood! (grin)

(yes! I’m still waiting on that surprise! ASAP I swear!)

Hey guys - I’m still waiting on the surprise. I haven’t forgotten, and I have gotten an email saying it is still in the works! As soon as I get it, I’ll get it to you, I promise! I thought I’d have it before now, but life, life gets in the way sometimes…

However! I am taking my laptop on VACATION with me when I leave today, primarily so that when I get that surprise, you will get it right away! No kidding - I’ll be checking every chance I get, (often, as I’m staying with other computer/internet savvy folks!) and get it to you ASAP!

Hang in there, kids! It’s coming, I swear!

Lessa
off to soak in some California sunshine…

The Reality TV Awards show was every bit the train wreck it promised to be, as it tried very hard to be a REALLY REAL BIG AWARDS SHOW, with scripted jokes, and musical interludes, and mismatched pairs presenting. It was also loud, unorganized, filled with amusing award categories, and filled with Reality TV z-listed stars.

In other words - it was awesome.

Here’s a list of who presented what and who won for the entire 2 hour extravaganza, plus my comments, of course!

First up! Evel Dick from Big Brother 8 & Bridget Marquardt from The Girls Next Door present the award for Favorite Showmance. It was a tie between Eric and Jessica, and Dr. Will Kirby and Mike Boogie. For Dr. 90210. For the episode where Dr. Will removed a wart from Mike’s lil boogie. How that equates to a showmance, I’ll never know…

I was eternally amused that Evel Dick had to present that award, giving it to team Jeric, who he didn’t think had a relationship at all, over his own daughter and Nick. Nick made some snide comment about theirs not being a showmance so it was ok for them not to win. Course, Jessica and Eric fans know they aren’t showmancing either, so whatever. Jessica’s delight over the giant martini glass was too cute for words!

Just how much DOES Janice Dikckenson imbibe? She looked three sheets to the wind as she and Sanjaya presented the Favorite Fight award. The Charm School girls beat out Evel Dick and Jen for this one.

Like there was ANY doubt who would win the award presented by Scott Baio and Jason Hervey - Amber beat out Jen, and even that 12 year old crier who adores Sanjaya and walked away with the Favorite Tears award. Amazingly, she didn’t cry while giving her short acceptance speech.

Chill Town’s Mike and Dr. Will gave out the Favorite Winner award, and not to Evel Dick, but to Rock from Hell’s Kitchen.

Favorite Non-Competition Program went to Scott Baio is 45 and Single. The teenagers watching with me were all “who the heck is Scott Baio??” and I died a little inside. Poor youth of today - they don’t know that Charles was once in Charge! SIGH. Course, I’ve never seen the show. Charles isn’t in charge of my TV watching anymore.

Favorite Altered State went to Frank from the Real World Reunited. The Real World is still on? Remember when that was THE show to watch? What is it, season 33910293743 now? What can they possibly do next to make it fresh? The Real World: On the Moon? Anyway, moving on…

Another unsurprising victory for the Big Brother gang - Mary Murphy and Benji Schwimmer presented Evel Dick with the Favorite Villain award, where he mentioned for the 8000th time that it clearly pays to be an asshole. He did give props to the rest of the houseguests though - for giving him so much material to work with. Haha!

Jen got beat out for Favorite Hottie by Bridget from The Girls Next Door. That had to smart! I’ll bet it’s because her picture was so horrible! And she lost best tears too! Awwww…. of course, I think Bob Harper from The Biggest Loser should have won it, hands down!

Another surprise was that Evel Dick did NOT get Favorite Potty Mouth! I thought sure this one had his name written all over it. Instead, Adrianne Curry from My Fair Brady got it. Yet another show I’ve not seen. Maybe I don’t have the obsession for childhood stars like other folks? Or simply not enough MTV or VH1 in my life? I don’t know. Whoever she is for whatever show, she rocked the cursing in her acceptance speech too.

Jen joined Ant to present the Baddest Bitch award, and kudos to the writers for getting Jen to go against her non-cussing ways and repeatedly say “Bitch” as they gave the award to Pumkin from Charm School. (…Pumkin? Really? Is that her real name, or a chosen one? She likes to be called Pumkin? Oy.)

Our own favorite Loser, Marcellas Reynolds joined Heather from the Rock of Love, to give out the Favorite Loser award to - of course - Sanjaya. It totally should have gone to Yau Man for Survivor. He got robbed! Again!

Mary Murphy won Favorite Judge/Host for So you think you can Dance, before Eric and Brigitte gave out the Favorite Reality Show award. To American Idol. Come on, seriously? Screeching singers beat out Survivor AND Big Brother? Oh America. How I ponder your level of taste… in other news, Eric looked positively terrified up on stage with Brigitte Nielson, and who could blame him - she’s one scary looking female! And she was bantering about award-mance? RUN ERIC RUN!

Perez Hilton joined Daniele Donato on stage to present the Favorite Moment of Prayer to Jameka, who won over Amber, and the chick from Charm School praying in advance for forgiveness for a beat down about to happen. Well deserved, of course!

So You Think You Can Dance won Favorite Competition Program, beating out Big Brother and Survivor again. Harumph.

Then came the incident we’ve all heard about and seen via youtube since they filmed the award show last week. Jonny Fairplay, last year’s winner of Reality Performer of the Year, was to present the final award, and instead got into a scuffle with Bonaduce. Now, while Jonny can be an asshole, he’s never been anything other then polite and nice to me when we’ve talked, and I get him and his attitude. Danny Bonaduce is just a bitter asshole has been child star that no one cares about anymore.

After Jonny left the stage, Alexis Arquette stood in and presented the award to Evel Dick, the unsurprising winner of Reality Performer of the Year.

And there you have it! The D-list version of an awards show was everything I hoped it would be; a glorious train wreck! What did you think of it? Or of the infamous Jonny Bashing? Pop into the comments below and give us your opinion!

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The Reality TV Awards will be aired tomorrow night on the Fox Reality Channel! I, of course, will be covering all the shenanigans, and reporting back with official word of winners and losers and already made famous face plants!

I’ve also heard from one of my upcoming surprises - It is STILL in the works - and will occur soon! Promise!

Looking for a few good (MySpace) friends? Try these!
Amber
Dick
Daniele
Dustin
Eric
Jameka
JenWork
JenPersonal
Jessica
JoeBB8FanClub
Mike
Nick
ZachBB8FanClub

Hey - You’ve only got about 4 hours left to get some official props from the Big Brother House! And Zach still has some stuff up too!

Keep checking back, folks - those surprises will be worth it! Happy Friday!

I am excited! SO EXCITED! Have I got a surprise for YOU! I can’t tell you yet… I hope to have it ready next week. Please keep checking back. It will be worth it. SO WORTH IT. Wasn’t my LAST surprise fabulous? Trust me - you won’t want to miss THIS one either.

I’m giddy.
GIDDY I tell you!

Trust me. Stick around. Big Brother Craze gets ALL the good stuff!

ETA: And there’s another surprise in the works as well…

which will come first?

Only time will tell…..

Just where are all the Reality stars shining last night?

In LA, baby, where they are filming/holding the Fox Reality Channel 2007 Really Awards! It won’t be shown on FRC until October 13th, but you know I’ve been scouring the web, waiting for any and all hints of who of our favorites were nominated, and who won…

So - Without further ado, here are some of the first pictures of the event - and a list of the categories and nominees!

Favorite Showmance
Eric and Jessica from “Big Brother 8”
Nate and Jenny Lee from “Beauty and the Geek”
Jackie and Rebecca from “Workout”
CT and Diem from “The Real World/Road Rules Challenge”
Dr. Will Kirby and Mike “Boogie” Mallin from “Dr. 90210”
Danielle and Nick from “Big Brother 8”

Favorite Fight
“Chance” Kamal Givens vs. “Mr. Boston” on “I Love New York”
Rocky vs. Dreams on “Survivor: Fiji”
Sharon Osborne vs. Piers Morgan on “America’s got Talent”
Leilene vs. Pumpkin on “Charm School”
Evel Dick vs. Jen on “Big Brother 8”
Saaphyri v. Htown on “Flavor of Love 2”

Favorite Tears
Jenn on “Big Brother 8”
Aaron on “Hell’s Kitchen”
Paula Abdul on “Hey Paula”
Amber on “Big Brother 8”
Ashley Ferl on “American Idol”

Favorite Winner
Tyler and James from “The Amazing Race”
Rock from “Hell’s Kitchen”
Evil Dick from “Big Brother 8”
Traci Bingham from “Surreal Life: Fame Game”
Yul from “Survivor: Fiji”

Favorite Villain
Dustin Diamond from “Celebrity Fit Club”
Cecille from “Beauty and the Geek”
Johnny V from “Scott Baio is 45 and Single”
Evel Dick from “Big Brother 8”
Renee from “America’s Next Top Model”
Larissa from “Charm School”

Favorite Hottie
Bridget from “The Girls Next Door”
Jenn from “Big Brother 8”
Brooke from “Hogan Knows Best”
JP Calderon from “Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency”
The “Olley” Girls from “Sunset Tan”
Bob Harper from “The Biggest Looser”

Favorite Potty Mouth
Chef Gordon Ramsay form “Hell’s Kitchen”
Dustin Diamond from “Celebrity Fit Club”
Evel Dick from “Big Brother 8”
Adrianne Curry from “My Fair Brady: We’re Getting Married”

America’s Favorite Reality Show
“Survivor”
“Dancing with the Stars”
“American Idol”
“America’s got Talent”
“Big Brother”
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”

Favorite Moment of Prayer
Jamekah from “Big Brother 8”
Saaphyri from “Charm School”
Dog from “Dog: The Bounty Hunter”
Amber from “Big Brother 8”
Sister Patterson from “I Love New York”

Favorite Competition Program
“Hell’s Kitchen”
“Big Brother”
“I Love New York”
“The Biggest Looser”
“So you Think you can Dance”
“Survivor”

Reality Performer of the Year
Adrianne and Chris Knight from “My Fair Brady”
Sanjaya from “American Idol”
New York from “I Love New York”
Len Goodman from “Dancing with the Stars”
Evel Dick from “Big Brother 8”
Ant from “Celebrity Fit Club”

And now? AFTER THE CUT I have the FIRST SPOILER from the event. That’s right - through diligence and simply knowing WHERE to look, I happen to know the winners of one award. Oh yes I do. So if you WANT to know… click the ‘read more’ tag below. Don’t click if you must wait! Don’t blame me IF you click…. You can’t say I didn’t warn you!

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Me too! That’s why I was so glad she consented to do an interview with us here at Big Brother Craze! Enjoy! (FYI - the title is a reference to one of the Quarter’s rules by the houseguests. Live Feed watchers know what I mean!)

Thanks for taking the time to talk with us here at Big Brother Craze, Carol! While it sucks to be the first voted out, I think you have some valuable insight on the other houseguests that we might not have thought of! So let’s get to it!

BBC: As a recruit to be on the show as part of the Enemies Twist, what went through your mind when you were contacted to be on the show? Did you have any idea what you were getting yourself into?

Carol: I had no idea what I was getting myself into, I initially thought it would be a lot of fun and that it was an opportunity that I could not pass up

BBC: What kind of strategy did you enter the house with, and would you do differently if you had the chance?

Carol: I had no strategy when I entered the house and yes I would do things completely different now.

BBC: How surprised were you to see Jessica walk down those stairs? How did you feel you’re rivalry compared to the others of the house?

Carol: I was shocked that she was there, at the time I thought our rivalry was a big joke in comparison to the others

BBC: After leaving the house the first week, how much of the show did you watch? Did you watch BBAD or the feeds?

Carol: I think I might have missed 1 or 2 episodes and I never watched the bbad

BBC: One thing almost all houseguests have in common, is that they think they aren’t portrayed correctly on the network shows. How do you feel CBS portrayed you?

Carol: I was not there long enough to be portrayed a certain way. possibly just as the naive recruit who did not want to be there in the first place

BBC: Do you think they portrayed the other houseguests fairly?

Carol: yeah for the most part, they emphasized the bad side of everyone and showed very little of the good qualities of the other house guests

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Do you realize that as of tomorrow, it will have been two whole weeks since we’ve gotten to peek in on the Big Brother Houseguests and laugh at our little hamsters scurrying about the House? Two whole weeks! However are we going to survive until BB9? Which is, by my calculation, an astonishing 276 days away. Oy. (What, you’re not counting down? Why ever not!)

Well, for those of us who can’t let go of the most dynamic season yet - there are many pieces of Big Brother 8 out there for the taking. Or rather, bidding on, hopefully winning, THEN taking. The most recent additions to the Ebay Frenzy - Eric, Jessica and Daniele! Here’s the links to the most recent auction pages:

Eric
Daniele
Nick
Jen

And of course, Chicken George, who worked the Finale for autographs!

Though, I have to say? $3000 for a shirt signed by Nick? Do me a favor, and instead of bidding there, go over here instead. 100% of the proceeds of these auctions go to help a beautiful little girl named Bekah who has been stricken with brain cancer. Bekah is Jedi Howie’s girlfriend’s GodDaughter.

Want a Booyah shirt? Grab one here, and the profits go to the Melissa Tweedy Lung Transplant fund!

Now those are my kind of auctions!

In other news, keep checking back, as I’m working on a few other surprises for my faithful readers! Hopefully the next one will be ready by the end of this week. Stay tuned!

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