Big Brother Craze

It’s another Thursday in the Big Brother house, and this week there’s no last minute scrambling, there’s no hushed strategy sessions other then the predictable “If I win HOH, I’m going to nominate…” hopeful whispers. Jen, after her shenanigans two nights ago has decided to go down without so much as a glimmer of fight - except for completely making a mess where others are cleaning.

It’s just another day in the neighborhood.

Last night, we had more of the Donato Show - with fighting, snarling, attempts at civility, and rehashing behind one another’s back.

Dick’s line of “You always quit” is somewhat deja vous, as that’s exactly what Zach accused him of in their little tiff yesterday (ED: I’m ending this conversation. Zach: Run away, that’s what you always do.). Like daddy like daughter!

Currently, we are on Trivia, presumably while the HouseGuests do their practice run through the live show. While we’re waiting - check out Big Brother 8: Burning Questions Answered! where Allison Grodner answers some of our questions about this season, including Jen’s penalty vote - and the rumor that she knows about AP.

Was Jen admonished for destroying Dick’s cigarettes?
There is a rule about destroying personal property in the house. It would be a big mess [if allowed to continue], so we have to have some rules to prevent all hell from breaking loose.

But how do you justify admonishing Jen when her shirt was vandalized with mustard?
Obviously it was an America’s Player situation [Eric was told to do it]. She was able to wash it and it was fine. If that had been a situation in the house, we probably would have admonished the person who did it. But Jen doesn’t know who did it!

Jen was contending that she was admonished for destroying Dick’s cigarettes, yet Dick was never admonished for his foul behavior toward her. Is that true?
That’s not necessarily true. By the way, we don’t discuss who is admonished and so forth in the Diary Room. But I will tell you as an overall note that when people are close to crossing the line in terms of violence in the house, they are warned. Jen doesn’t necessarily know [what, if anything, happened to Dick]. They don’t know what happened with her with regards to the cigarettes. We don’t discuss people’s Diary Room visits with the other houseguests.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Fans watching the feeds see the houseguests come out of the Diary Room and start talking about how the producers attempted to sway their vote. Cynical viewers think you are trying to strong-arm the houseguests into doing your bidding. How do you respond to that?
ALLISON GRODNER: [Sighs] We are the only show that is heavily scrutinized because of the live nature of the Internet, which is also what makes the show so terrific. We can’t manipulate the houseguests because we know we have the viewers watching us. That’s something that we are very much against here. We do ask the houseguests to talk to us in pros and cons so we can understand their line of thinking. It’s important for us to do that in order to understand the strategy, which can get so complex. That’s what is happening. We are very careful to ask balanced questions. We will ask them to weigh both sides.

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There is a rumor going around that Jen somehow managed to stumble upon an America’s Player card in the Diary Room…
I heard this. Where did that come from? We know better than that! What’s fascinating is the conspiracy theories that fly through this house. I believe there was one moment — and the video is available on YouTube [of players talking about it] — where Eric leaves the Diary Room and Jen says, ”Mr. America!” And he kinda goes, ”What?” It was just her doing her thing. But that was exaggerated by viewers. We are very careful about America’s Player envelopes.

In other news - The Power of 10 episode that Daniele and Amber compete on will be shown next TUESDAY right before Big Brother.

During next week’s episode of POWER OF 10, current BIG BROTHER 8 Houseguests Daniele Donato and Amber Siyavus will compete against each other in the two-person game, allowing the winner to move on for a chance to play for $10 million, Tuesday, Aug. 28 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Daniele and Amber, the top two winners of a Power of Veto competition, won a luxury reward and were flown to New York to appear on the CBS game show POWER OF TEN.

POWER OF 10, hosted by Drew Carey, is a high-stakes primetime game show where contestants compete for the chance to win $10 million. Michael Davies is the executive producer for Embassy Row in association with Sony Pictures Television.

No clue, of course, of who wins what if anything - but there IS a funny parody here.

See ya soon for the Live Blogging - thanks to wonderful East Coast Hamster Watchers who stream the episode for us poor West Coasters and Alaskans!

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