Sunday, December 16, 2007

Brittany Petros

25 - Robinsdale, MN
Pharmaceutical Saleswoman
7th - 4th Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 1 Time

Screech The Decapitated - Brittany as Raquel

Celebrity Information

Bomis - The Brittany Petros Ring

Brittany MySpace

Brittany Facebook

Brittany Facebook (private)

Brittany at IMDB

Brittany at Wikipedia

Cassandra Waldon

37 - Havre de Grace, MD
Communications Specialist For A United Nations Development Program
6th - 5th Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 3 Times

Cassandra Walden Fan Site

Cassandra at IMDB

Cassandra at Wikipedia

Curtis Kin

28 - Los Angeles, CA
Lawyer
3rd - 8th Banished - $50,000
Nominated For Banishment - 6 Times

Stanford Magazine - Alums Cast On Reality Shows

Interesting Haiku at Asian American Film.com

Curtis at IMDB

Curtis at Wikipedia

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Eddie McGee

21 - Long Island, NY
Student University of Texas at Arlington
My Day 1 Pick To Win
Winner - $500,000
Nominated For Banishment - 5 Times

Eddie McGee's Angels Dot Com

Eddie MySpace

Eddie Facebook

Eddie at IMDB

Eddie at Wikipedia

A Tribute To Eddie
by Thom Johnson

Eddie Stars in Fozzy Video

Eddie Mcgee on Guiding Light

Eddie Mcgee on Law and Order

Eddie Mcgee on Desperate Housewives

George Boswell aka Chicken Man aka Chicken George

41 - Rockford, IL
Roofer
5th - 6th Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 2 Times

George's MySpace?

George at IMDB

George at Wikipedia

BIG BROTHER MEETS PROJECT RUNWAY

stiffy george

Chicken George's Dental Visit

Jamie Kern aka Hollywood aka Jamie Kern Lima

23 - Seattle, WA
Miss Washington USA 2000
4th - 7th Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 2 Times

PraiseJamie.com

Jamie on Facebook

Jamie at IMDB

Jamie at Wikipedia

"Some Girls Have All The Luck"
article in The Seattle Times with picture of Jamie and new husband

Get a Hot Summer 'Bod with IT Cosmetics
Creator/CEO of IT Cosmetics

Bye Bye Under Eye Circles

Jean Jordon aka Jordan

26 - Roanoke, VA
Writer/Exotic Dancer
9th - 2nd Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 2 Times

Recovering From BB by Jordan

a little blurb at nerve.com

Jordan at IMDB

Jordan at Wikipedia

Josh Souza aka Sloshy

23 - Miami, FL
Civil Engineering Student at CalPoly
Runner-Up - 9th Banished - $100,000
Nominated For Banishment - 4 Times

Josh MySpace

Josh at IMDB

Josh at Wikipedia

The Josh and Erica Show

Karen Fowler

43 - Quincy, IL
Mother of 4
8th - 3rd Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 1 time

Karen at IMDB

Karen at Wikipedia

William Collins aka Will Mega aka Hiram Ashantee

27 - Philadelphia, PA
Youth Councelor
10th - 1st Banished
Nominated For Banishment - 1 Time
Goes down in BB history as the 1st evicted HG from the 1st season of BB USA

Will Mega MySpace

Will Mega at IMDB

Will Mega at Wikipedia

Will Mega Big Brother All Star Season 7

HG Nominations and Evictions

Week 2
Jul 9 - Jul 15

Jordan and Will Mega Nominated:
Brittany - Jordan and Will Mega
Cassandra - Brittany and Eddie
Curtis - Karen and Will Mega
Eddie - Jordan and Will Mega
George - Jordan and Will Mega
Jamie - Jordan and Will Mega
Josh - Brittany and Curtis
Jordan - Eddie and Karen
Karen - Jordan and Will Mega
William - Brittany and Eddie

Week 3
July 16 - Jul 22

Jul 20 (Thu) Will Mega Banished Day 16 by 73%

And Then There Were 9

Week 4
Jul 23 - Jul 29

Jordan and Curtis Nominated:
Eddie - Curtis and Jordan
Josh - Curtis and George
Curtis - Eddie and Karen
Jamie - Curtis and Eddie
George - Curtis and Jordan
Cassandra - Eddie and Jordan
Brittany - Curtis and Jordan
Karen - Curtis and Jordan
Jordan - Eddie and Karen

Week 5
Jul 30 - Aug 5

Aug 2 (Wed) Jordan Banished Day 29 by 78% (on her birthday)
And Then There Were 8

Week 6
Aug 6 - Aug 12

Casandra, Josh, and Karen Nominated:
Eddie - Curtis and Jamie
Josh - Curtis and Karen
Curtis - Eddie and Josh
Jamie - Josh and Karen
George - Cassandra and Josh
Cassandra - Brittany and Karen
Brittany - Cassandra and Josh
Karen - Cassandra and Josh

Week 7
Aug 13 - Aug 19

Aug 16 (Wed) Karen Banished Day 43 by 76%
And Then There Were 7

Week 8
Aug 20 - Aug 26

Brittany, Cassandra, Curtis, Eddie, George, and Josh Nominated:
Eddie - Curtis and Jamie
Josh - Cassandra and Curtis
Curtis - Eddie and Josh
Jamie - Eddie and George
George - Brittany and Josh
Cassandra - Brittany and George
Brittany - Cassandra and George

Week 9
Aug 27 - Sep 2

Aug 30 (Thu) Brittany Banished Day 57 by 34%

And Then There Were 6

Week 10
Sep 3 - Sep 9

Cassandra, Curtis, and Eddie Nominated:
Eddie - Cassandra and Curtis
Josh - Cassandra and Curtis
Curtis - Eddie and George
Jamie - Cassandra and Eddie
George - Curtis and Josh
Cassandra - Eddie and Jamie

Week 11
Sep 10 - Sep 16

Sep 13 (Thu) Cassandra Banished Day 71 by 46%
And Then There Were 5

Curtis, Eddie, George, and Jamie Nominated:
Eddie - George and Jamie
Josh - Curtis and George
Curtis - Eddie and George
Jamie - Eddie and George
George - Curtis and Jamie

Week 12
Sep 17 - Sep 23

Sep 20 (Wed) George Banished Day 78 by 51%

And Then There Were 4

Curtis, Eddie, Josh, and Jamie Nominated:
Eddie - Curtis and Jamie
Josh - Curtis and Jamie
Curtis - Eddie and Josh
Jamie - Eddie and Josh

Week 13
Sep 24 - Sep 28

Sep 27 (Wed) Jamie Banished Day 85 (Percentage Results not Announced on Live Show)

And Then There Were 3

Eddie, Curtis, and Josh Nominated Automatically:

Sep 28 (Thu) Finale:

Curtis - 3rd - $50,000 by 14%
And Then There Were 2

Josh - 2nd - $100,000 by 27%
And Then There Was 1

Eddie - winner - $500,000 by 59%

And Then There Were None

FOOD, LUXURY, and OTHER TASKS

Week 1
Jul 5 - Jul 8

FOOD - Solve word puzzle - dig 1 ft. left of lemon tree for $100 worth of food.

TASK - Build clock powered by potatoes or go without knowing time in the house


Week 2
Jul 9 - Jul 15

FOOD (Week Long) - Dead or Alive - Wager 20% - Fail
HGs are given week long challenges and told to wager 20% - 50% of their allowence. For their first one they wager 20%. They study names for a week and decide if they are dead or alive. They are given names and have to tell if they are dead or alive. They are allowed 3 misses. George misses one, Curtis misses one, and then Will Mega throws his two causing the HGs to fail the challenge.


Week 3
Jul 16 - Jul 22

TASK - All HGs imitate another assigned HG. Eddie goes into the Red Room and does a striptese to imitate Jordan.


TASK - HGs all sit and paint someone on the bicycle to capture the week long food challenge on canvas


FOOD (Week Long) - Le Tour De Big Brother - Wager 50% - Win
Ride stationery bicycle for a combined total of 1000 miles.


Week 4
Jul 23 - Jul 29


TASK: Put the issue of flag burning on trial (each HG assigned a different role of the court).

TASK: Balloon Toss
HGs divide in three teams and toss water balloons across the pool to each other. Blue Team is Eddie, George, Cassandra. White Team is Karen, Jordan, Brittany. Yellow Team is Curtis, Josh, Jamie. The blue team won (nothing).

FOOD (Week Long) - The Domino Affect - Wager 20% - Win
Set up 12,100 dominoes to fall when BB gives signal making a picture of the Big Brother logo.


Week 5
Jul 30 - Aug 5

TASK: HGs host a roast for Curtis and Jordan who are up for banishment.


FOOD (Week Long) - Wager 30% - Fail
Six HGs have to jump rope together 10 times. The rope turners have to recite a poem written by the HGs while they jump.


Click to see: BB1 Jump Rope Food Challenge

Week 6
Aug 6 - Aug 12


TASK: Create a daytime talk show Jerry Springer style


LIVE CHALLENGE: Pick a HG to make a 60 sec. phone call. HGs choose George


TASK: HGs are told a new HG is coming in and Karen is told to go into the Red Room to get him/her. There she finds a pug named Chiquita. (Interesting note: real small distance from red room to outside compared to the hall the HGs have now.) While still on the live show, Chiquita gets sat on by George and then goes outside and falls in the pool. Josh jumps in to save her. Welcome to Big Brother, Chiquita.



TASK: The 3 nominated HGs get 30 sec. to plead to America to keep them in the house

FOOD (Week Long) - Pie Eating Contest - Wager 20% - Win
HGs have to bake 8 blueberry pies and 8 raspberry pies to get ready. Blueberries (Eddie, George, Cassandra, Brittany) vs Raspberries (Curtis, Josh, Jamie, Karen) eat 8 pies. Raspberries win and get to choose how the food allowance gets spent.


Week 7
Aug 13 - Aug 19


TASK: HGs play water basketball and amazingly the pool holds them all

TASK: HGs roast Cassandra, Josh, and Karen who are nominated

LIVE CHALLENGE: HGs have 3 min. to decide to watch the nominations or not. If they watch, they get a prize. HGs decide not to watch, and we never find out what the prize is.

TASK: HGs stand in front of seated HG and be brutally honest about what they don't like about them. This is followed about what they like about them.


FOOD (Week Long) - Interstate Road Trip - Wager 20% - Win
HGs memorize all major highways. They have to tell which interstates to take to get from one city to another.


Week 8
Aug 20 - Aug 26


TASK: Paint each other like animals


TASK: Sumo wrestling match - winner gets a nice prize
Eddie wins the match and is led (blind folded) into the red room where a returning Will Mega "beats him up" for a massage. Will Mega holds up a sign for us: You can vote me out but you can't count me out!


TASK/LIVE CHALLENGE: HGs have to match quotes with HGs. Last one standing wins a special prize on the live show. The funniest thing that comes from this is that Josh is the one who said "I'd do a guy before I'd kiss him". Jamie wins the challenge. On the live show she is give 10 sec. to choose who she wants to talk to in the red room for two minutes - her mom or a famous hollywood casting director. She chooses the hollywood casting director.


TASK: Baby in the mud relay race. HGs had to build their own set and then take turns crawling through the mud with the baby. They couldn't let the baby touch the mud, and at the end they had to stand up and salute.


FOOD (Week Long) - Dance Marathon - Wager 20% - Win
From Sunday to Friday two HGs must be dancing non stop with part of the body touching. When cued (no matter what time of day or night) ALL HGs have 30 seconds to get up and dance.


Week 9
Aug 27 - Sep 2


TASK: Beauty Pagent - HGs compete for the title of Mr. Big Brother 2000 (won by Eddie) and Miss Big Brother 2000 (tied by Cassandra and Brittany). They get a fancy dinner with meals of their choice. Brittany's meal is caesar salad, lobster tail, french silk pie, and diet soda. Cassandra's meal is mixed salad, ribs (beef & pork), cajun rice, greens, beans, and chocolate shake. Eddies meal is mixed salad with ranch dressing, surf & turf (steak rare), baked potato and french fries, vanilla ice cream, and beer.


TASK: HGs have to fill out a questionnaire revealing opinions of each other (most loyal, funniest, most two faced, etc.). They divide into two teams with Brittany as host and the game ends in a tie.

LIVE CHALLENGE - Jamie gets a chance to cohost with Julie and does 3 tasks: Interview the HG who Jamie chooses as having the hardest time being nominated (George), introduce a video segment, and announce the banished HG (Brittany).


FOOD (Week Long) - Jigsaw Puzzle - Wager 50% - I think they won
Build a puzzle with 4928 pieces by Friday. The result wasn't shown on following shows.


Week 10
Sep 3 - Sep 9


TASK: Discuss whether they would be willing to split the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize money. All said "yes" except for Eddie.


LIVE CHALLENGE PT. 1: HGs offered $20,000 to leave (only one can accept) and don't know a new HG named Beth will enter the house. They turn it down. They are then offered an additional $30,000 (total $50,000) to leave and turn it down again. Beth doesn't get to enter the house. She was told that she would only win $140,000 if she were to enter the house and win.


LIVE CHALLENGE PT. 2: Brittany is there and HGs must decide which HG gets to talk to her. They start to choose Jamie, but Brittany jumps in and asks Josh to talk to her. She tells him to trust Curtis and Eddie, editing is pretty accurate, about the campaign from George's wife to vote out the most popular houseguests, and they are mean on the outside. Wow, talk about influence from the outside world. Josh goes back and is very selective about what he tells the other HGs.


TASK: Name That Price - HGs name price of item another hg wants and must come within $1 for that HG to get it. They name prices for white t-shirt for Curtis, chocolates for George, assorted beer for Eddie, hair mayonnaise for Cassandra, disposable razors for Josh, and coffee syrup for Jamie. The show doesn't discuss who wins what if anything. It just ends with the guesses.


FOOD (Week Long) - Dog Agility Course - Wager 20% - Win
Can HGs train Chiquita to go through an obsticle course. George leads her over the box, Cassandra over the bridge, Curtis through the tunnel, Eddie over the double jump, Jamie through the cones, and Josh up and down the slide.



Week 11
Sep 10 - Sep 16


LUXURY: HGs told to search the house and find a ticket to go to the Emmy Awards. Curtis finds the ticket hanging on the wall in the Red Room.


LIVE CHALLENGE - Write a message to be sent over to the banner flyer guy, made, and flown over the house by the end of the show (a way to answer all the banners they have seen). They sent "Live long and prosper - GAB" (GAB is George's initials)


LIVE CHALLENGE - (Two live shows this week) - Each HG has a chance to call home from the red room with following rules: 5 minutes total time and the clock doesn't stop. The HGs go in alphabetical order, and have to dial, connect, talk, hang up, and leave the room before the next one enters. Josh was last and had 1 min. 18 sec. to talk but couldn't get connected until there were only 18 sec. left. Here are the times the HGs left:
  • Curtis - 4:09
  • Eddie - 3:18
  • George - 2:47
  • Jamie - 1:18
  • Josh - :00
FOOD (Week Long) - Juggling Contest - Wager 50% - Failed
More than two balls were dropped and Jamie/George didn't have balls in the air at all times.


Week 12
Sep 17 - Sep 23


TASK: Write lyrics to the Big Brother theme song.

Click to see: HGs working on the lyrics

Click to see: HGs caps set to the HGs singing their finished lyrics


TASK: Find Chiquita - the one who finds her gets to announce the weather on the local tv channel. Josh found her in the storage room.


LIVE CHALLENGE - HGs have to decide which banished HG they want to come back into the house. After watching clips from each, they pick Cassandra (who shows up during the following live show and leaves before it ends).


TASK: Play the Big Brother Board Game


FOOD (Week Long) - Is It News Or Not - Wager 50% - Won
HGs have to guess if statements were in the news or not. For example: Nude photos of HGs have shown up on the internet.


Week 13
Sep 24 - Sep 28


TASK - HGs draw cards and Josh becomes the saboteur to "manipulate some aspect of life in the house". He sets the potato clock back 1/2 hr every day for a few days. The others must try to guess who it is and what they are doing. One of the times Josh sets it back in front of everyone and they don't catch it, but later Curtis guesses and wins the Trinitron 32" Flat Screen TV that has been used through the season on the live shows.


LIVE CHALLENGE - Final 3 HGs have 30 seconds to go to the red room and tell who they think should win and why. Curtis says himself, Eddie says Josh, and Josh says Eddie. After the show, they have a good laugh because Eddie winked at Julie and heard the audience laugh and Josh called Julie "Babe".

Julie Chen aka Chenbot


Julie Chen Early Show Co-Anchor

Julie's MySpace

Julie at IMDB

Julie at Wikipedia

BB1 Julie's First "But First"?

Julie Chen-Bot

Julie Chen Big Brother through the Years

Julie Chen On Craig Ferguson

Julie Chen On Letterman

Julie Chen Vs. Phil Keoghan On 'Million Dollar Password'

Julie Chen On 'The Unit'

Rappin' Like It's 1987
(Julie Beat Boxes - Hilarious)