Here’s what he said:
The casting is going to have a slightly conservative vs. liberal angle.
- A recently divorced Koren-American tomboy.
- A 35 year old gay rodeo cowboy who’s a bit prejudiced himself.
- A 25 year old who doesn’t consider himself a bartender.
- A 53 year old New Orleans socialite.
- A 31 year old who’s from a predominantly white neighborhood, she’s a black mother of 3 and an Obama supporter in Bush country. She has a pair of rare twins.
- The son of a Pentecostal preacher.
- A 24 year old teacher in an all boys Catholic school. He would move out of the country if Hillary were President.
- …and a few more. Thirteen in all. Don’t want to give you all the secrets!

Here are all the names:
Renny
Dan
Steven
Michelle
Libra
The person most likely to be an early target: Jesse (Jessie?), 22.
Ollie
Jerry, 75, is the self-professed biggest Big Brother fan in the world. Everyone will love Jerry!
Memphis
Keesha, 29, blond bombshell who works at Hooters. Reminds us of Danielle D.
Angie
April
Brian

So - if that dude doesn’t consider himself a bartender, what DOES his consider himself? And 75? Holy cow. I do remember earlier during casting for BB10 that rumors about them looking for a Gay Cowboy through the Gay Rodeo Association were flying rampant, so that one certainly seems possible. He was said to be kind of a tool, a flirt who gets along with most, and wears wranglers and cowboy hats to work all the time.

The folks over at Reality BBQ are now searching Myspace for possible, and may have found Keesha and Dan. We’ll know in a few days for sure, of course, but it’s oddles of fun to speculate while we wait!

What do you think of the rundown of houseguests above? Will we all really love Jerry?! Either way, kudos to CornerOfficeX - and keep the info coming - I’ll keep posting it asap. (Keep in mind we’re still under ’server problem high load’ land. Sigh.)

Now, the good stuff!

That’s right - we’re all so eager for news, ANY news, and now we have a bit! We Love Big Brother spoke with Allison Grodner today and got some tidbits about the new season. The houseguests aren’t in the house yet, but Allison was watching it during the interview as cleaning crews put the finishing touches on it. Some things that are absolutely verified now:

There are 13 houseguests.
The houseguests are complete strangers.
The houseguests are diverse in backgrounds, points of view and ages.

According to Grodner:

“We have a wide range of ages this year,” she said. “There’s young, there’s old, there’s in between, there’s parents, there’s students, there’s people with white collar jobs, blue collar jobs. It’s all very different. We’ve got a lot of very specific types of people in this house, and people who have very extreme points of view than maybe we’ve had in the past.”

She said the house will also reflect this diversity.
“This year [the house] reflects the cast in all the different places and eras they come from,” she said. “It’s a very different house, it’s not our winter house. This is a very different thing and it goes with the cast.”

She also confirmed the live audiences, though it will be different then the in Big Brother 1, and they worked hard to include successful elements from the show’s past. And then there’s the twist - which she wouldn’t reveal, but said it will play out from the very first day. Says Allison:

“The game starts before these people even enter the house,” she hinted. “Expect the unexpected. Expect a completely different Big Brother from what you’ve seen this past year.”

The houseguests will be arriving in town soon, and going through press interviews in the upcoming week. There will be twists and turns, of course, along the way.

You can listen to the interview in its entirety below:

Less then two weeks to go, ya’ll!

Everyone loved his video blogs for RealPlayer last year, so we can expect more of the same on a bigger scale. (Ok, everyone except you. And maybe you. And you over there in the corner too, but we’ve been ignoring you for a long time and stop sucking your thumb already. And you over there too. LOTS of people, then - not everyone. Happy? *grin*) ANYWAY. This year while the feeds are down for the live broadcasts on Wednesdays, we’ll have something to watch instead of the screen saver and endless loop of the theme song.

Evel Dick will be broadcasting a “loosely put together show of sorts” live from the Cat Club on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. He’ll have guests, friends, random people - not just past houseguests. He says that some of the guests we’ll recognize, want to have, or want to punch. He’s going to be interviewing big fans of the show that have some type of celeb status or another.

If you don’t have the feeds, and are wondering if this is worth checking into them for, you’ll get to see the first two shows for free, available to everyone. If you like the “trainwreck in the making [he’s] calling a show”, it’ll start July 16th.

The deal with Showtime for a Dick at Night show before/after Afterdark fell through due to things out of his control, but we will get more of Dick on Housecalls on Thursdays! This year Housecalls is on at Noon PST, and Evel Dick will be co-hosting with Gretchen on Thursdays where he promises he will get to speak to evicted houseguests. Of course, we’ve heard that last part before, so we’ll see what happens.

Also co-hosting Housecalls this year? Sheila from BB9 (Know that!) will be joining Gretchen on Wednesdays. Not sure who has returned for the other days just yet, but I’ll be sure to let you know as soon as I know.

One last tidbit from Evel Dick - the live eviction audiences will not include past houseguets. They want them to be different then the finale, where all past houseguests are welcomed and invited. So it’ll be all fans, all the time, watching our beloved Chenbot oust a houseguest every week!

TWO MORE WEEKS!

So what do we know? Here’s the compilation of all the rumors I’ve heard bantered around. Keep in mind that they are rumors, and we won’t know anything for sure until it happens, but some of the sources seem to be pretty reliable. However, if they turn out to be completely wrong, don’t shoot the messenger, eh?

1. 13 houseguests - source, the commercial. Could BB be lying to us? Absolutely.

2. Season Premiere July 13th - source, CBS.

3. Network broadcasts will follow BB9 structure, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday nights.

4. There will be a live audience for the live eviction shows on Wednesday nights, and our beloved Chenbot will host, as always.

5. As I reported before, a gentleman who said that he made it to the top 35 posted at jokers was given his ‘regrets’ call to say he didn’t make it, so we can assume that all the houseguests have been contacted and are en route to CA and sequester if they are not there already (We’ve also heard that they are there already… and It’s also been reported that one finalist has quit already, and another flown in to take their place.)

6. Each room is decorated as if it came from a different ere/decade - 60s, 70s, 80s. I mentioned that before as well, as it came from Crazy James. That fits with the speculation that…

7. We’ll have a wider array of ages then we’re used too - 20s, 30s 40s and even one guy in his 60s. (How cool would it be if it were 3 - 20 somethings, 3 - 30 somethings, 3 - 40 somethings, 3 - 50 somethings and that one 60s fellow being our number 13?)

8. Because of the odd number of houseguests, 13, there’s speculation that we’ll have other houseguests entering the house throughout the season - complete rumor, I’ve heard nothing to substantiate it.

9. None of the houseguests are from previous seasons, and I’ve heard it said a couple of places that none of them know each other, either. But we’ve heard that last part before, huh?

10. The Twist - it’s been held EXTREMELY close, and even the one fellow who posted anonymously over with my BB-blogging BFF, Carolyn at BBDish, even he would only toss out a tidbit for us to gnaw on. He said:

Alli Grodner was quoted on BB9 finale night as saying “you will love it” regarding the twist of BB10. I know that I can’t speak for all of you, but as a die-hard Big Brother fan, I can say with complete honesty that she was telling the truth. This twist has been held very close to the vest and as a result it’s too risky to leak it all (I know, I’m sorry!) but I can tell you this much: it twist involves mirrors and a “disappearing room.”

HOW cool does that sound? A disappearing room? Here’s hoping it’s something fantastically cool. This same person also said that the houseguests were already in sequester as of the past weekend, though he had heard no reason for it being so early. He assumes it is so more detailed promos can be filmed and ready to air.

11. Together again - just as I said to begin with, it means nothing other then Summer + Big Brother = Together again.

12. The houseguests are all “Opposites”. The Joker’s dude who got to top 35 said that each houseguest will have an opposite in the house as well. It will be some hot-button issue, like religion, hunters vs. PETA, politics, vegetarians, etc. This falls into line with the rumors during casting that members of PETA were being recruited.

And lucky number 13 (yes, I totally did that on purpose. *L*). We know that no matter what, how good or how bad it gets, that I’ll be here watching and reporting it all here at Big Brother Craze - and that’s one rumor that I can 100% confirm!

The poster, DaCoach7, says that the timeline he’d been given would see the houseguests heading off to sequester early next week, where they’ll spend 4-5 days doing photoshoots, etc. That’s about the time we’ll get to see the inside of the house, and then the houseguests identities will be released the week before the premiere. Seems it’s going to be a show of opposite opinions – DaCoach7 is a hunter, and figured he would be pit against a PETA member – there were other rumors spread earlier in casting that BB was looking for a PETA member, so that falls into line with what we’ve already heard. Other possible categories were politics, religion, vegetarians and such.

He also confirms a wide range of finalists – women in their 40s-50s, and even a man in his 60s. He heard no talk of BB11, so no clue if we’ll do another winter edition next year. He couldn’t pinpoint a certain twist – just that there were a lot of polarized personalities. He also said there would be no relatives at all.

Now this could all be utter and complete bunk, but he does seem pretty well bummed that he wasn’t chosen, and some of the things he said definitely fit in with the other rumors. Here’s hoping to a nice, well rounded, controversial, argumentative cast! Less with the booty calls, and more with the conversations!

What do you think? Is this guy for real? Who’s counting the days with me?! 17 more!

The rumor mills have been working overtime, but there hasn’t been much of anything new until recently. We won’t see the house until after the first of July at the earliest, but during a recent interview, James revealed that he does know a bit about it. He teased us with some of the info, but did confirm that the three rooms will have a “generation theme” - 60s, 70s, 80s. This goes along with Evel Dick, and Grodner’s comments that there will be a bigger age spread among the houseguests too, so we may see houseguests in their 40s, 30s, and of course the ever present 20-something beauty queens.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview with James:

There’s also the live eviction audience, and speculation that there because there are only 13 houseguests, that there will be intruders or other houseguests joining later. That’s all speculation, of course, and we won’t hear anything about those types of twists until the houseguests are in Sequester before entering the house. I’ll be on the lookout for the first house photos, and houseguest information though, as we gear up toward another 3 months without sleep!

Who needs sleep, anyway?

This was a fun little project that I got to do recently. I was a little disappointed that you can’t see me that often especially since I don’t die till the end by Nerf gernade… but it was one of the funnest days of filming ever.

I’m pretty sure I’ve picked him out - can you?

The Great Office War

And, since my kids and their friends are jonsin’ to make a Nerf War video of their own… I just have to make sure they let ME play too!

ETA - I got an email from James Rhine yesterday (HI JAMES!) and he mentioned that he was also featured in the latest video from the Pussycat Dolls! You can see the video on his MySpace page!

All during Housecalls for season 9, and well, ever since his own season, Bunky took a lot of ribbing about his back hair. He took it in stride and joked about it as well, ever being the cute little wooly mammoth that he is. At one point during the season, Evel Dick started telling him that he’d take bits for someone to shave said back hair and rid poor Bunky of his own personal sweater.

Evel Dick apparently didn’t have enough pull. But you know who did? The Banker and Howie Mandell! That’s right, our very own Bunky was on last nights Deal or No Deal, with clippers and $100 in hand, as a contestant was asked to ’show her skill’ at her job. Check out the clip!

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Howie looks MORTIFIED - he is well known as a germaphobe and that kind of manscaping pushed him to his limit, I suppose. I just sat here and giggled, myself, as the contestant did exactly what Bunky asked for - just a little off the top. A back Mullet. Who’da thunk it? Nice to see the previous houseguests getting airtime, though, isn’t it? James Rhine was recently in a music video by the Pussycat Dolls, and Kaysar has a new commercial out that’s pretty funny - see?

All of which just makes us want July 13th to come all the faster, right? Right! BRING ON THE NEW HOUSEGUESTS!

July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 13, 20. With 13 houseguests, that would bring us down to 7 remaining houseguests, leading some to speculate that the jury would start then, and there would be no more live audiences because they’d be going into sequester. Or, they just might not have dates posted yet - who knows?

Here’s the complete information:

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Click here to get yours - and be sure to let us know if you go, and give us a full report here at Big Brother Craze! I promise not to be TOO jealous… (ok, maybe promise is a strong word…)

I’ll add the commercial as soon as it’s youtubed (it’s above!) - but in the meantime, could some of the following auditions be one of our houseguests? Time to see what kind of pain the casting directors have to go through to get us our ‘perfect mix’ cast!

All train wrecks are after the cut!

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