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JBoyle4eva

Do Not Assume

The following is quoted from the Digital Spy: Big brother website

DS:BB

US Big Brother gets off to twisted start

Whilst our housemates continue their unsponsored silence, the US edition of Big Brother 5 got underway last night, with more twists than you thought possible.

The twelve houseguests are Adria, Diane, Drew, Holly, Jase, Jennifer, Karen, Lori, Marvin, Michael, Mike, Scott and Will.

The houseguests entererd to find their were only places for 11 to sleep, with Marvin "taking one for the team" and claiming the Z-Bed. Five of the houseguests also found themselves sleeping on army-style bunks, much to their displeasure.

First up was the food challenge, where there was a spiral ladder rotating high above the garden and houseguests had to pick yellow balls off of a DNA type structure, each yellow ball representing a food item. They managed to get a large amount of these yellow balls.

Lori (who had the ball labelled "Lobster Tails") was told to open the ball and found a key. She then used this key to open a box which had $10'000 in cash inside. She then decided to take the cash and forfeit the weeks shopping.

The second twist was the reveleation that, unknown to them, Michael and Jennifer were half-brother or sister.. Michael discovered this by asking Jennifer her surname, and then pressed for information on their father. The episode left the link unknown to Jennifer however.

The final twist revealed so far is that there are twins in the house... well, there's one twin, swapping in and out of the house all series! Since the episode aired, nominations have also been made, however we will not reveal those until the episode has aired in the United States.

The slogan of the show is DNA - Do Not Assume... I think we can already assume this is a show not to be missed.

Notes:

- E4 have as yet indicated they have no plans to air US Big Brother. DS:BB will continue to cover the show.

- Discussion on US Big Brother can be found in our reality TV forums.

JBoyle4eva: I tihnk this BB is way more evil than BB UK! imagine all this happening without the housemates realising it! This is EVIL BB!

Basq

E4 are, unfortunately, not planning on showing Big Brother USA this year!

Mr E

Watched the first 2 episodes over the weekend. Pretty entertaining stuff (particularly the brother/sister thing). Its technically not really Big Brother, though. There is no bonding on an emotional level - its all "I've got your back if you don't vote me out". The challenges (HoH, luxury etc.) are all big budget and lots of fun. Pretty much the same format as last year, with a few twists.

What does anyone else think?

smoke.me.a.kipper

you can watch it here... mms://199.218.4.68/10tvlive its a live cbs feed (channel 10, ohio) from the US.

you can get schedule info for the channel from 10TV.com