Within The First Night of "Big Brother 13"

July 20, 2011

"Big Brother 13" viewers watch as eight new contestants - or houseguests, as they usually called on the CBS series voyeuristic "reality - Convergence with three pairs of veteran players on the 13 season premiere on Thursday evening.

But the audience "Big Brother 13" did not get everything that happens during the first begin a long summer night competition.

The change in the condense first hour, what really happened in the course of about six hours last Saturday, when the 14 houseguests moved into the camera filled house into a studio on the CBS lot in Studio City. (Feed the show is not transmitted live, what happens inside the house until after the first performance.)


Here are some of the things you did not see on TV:

- Outside the door of the house, waitress and graduate student Rachel Reilly Brendon Villegas, who met last summer during the season of 12 and later became engaged, shared a quiet moment together while waiting for the non-flat foot so-private partnerships. "Do not be nervous," Brendon said as they were outside the door. "I'm not nervous," said Rachel.

- The statements of pure sputtered eight season winner Richard "Evel Dick" Donato on his return with his daughter Danielle Donato was removed, that he was proud of the CBS for casting three black opponents. He also said the other houseguests that he asked the producers only the previous Sunday to invite him to play "Big Brother 13" again.

- When she left the house, the cast, crew members were related to the construction of scenery for the first Head of Household competition on the court, a makeshift jungle of trees and large banana leaves from the team that committed anointed. The back door was closed, which led the houseguests to speculate what would be out on fitness equipment.

- Keep the guests usually do not shut up. Gathered in the course of the evening, usually in a large group in the kitchen and engaged in further talks began, making it difficult to decipher what they all said to each other. "The first hour in the house of 'Big Brother 13' is the best time," said veteran Jeff Schroeder 11 years.


- The mood was surprisingly calm on the first floor in the control room monitors the action as a director for more than 50 cameras. Personal interviews transcribed the occupation, while a manufacturer in a stand-partner interviewed Keith Henderson and Porsche Briggs, who were down in the diary room. It was one of their first interactions outside the home.

- At some point in the yard, interviewed co-executive producer Don Wollman head of the family of preparation before it was interrupted by his own voice booming: "House guests, you are not authorized to talk about production." There is a cast of pre-recorded messages are available throughout the summer to hear about. He smiled and joked: "I'm already bored by this voice."

- Shelly Moore, the oldest participant was a newcomer to the age of 41, Star Struck, if the veteran pairs were revealed. "E", come to life than TV! "She screamed with excitement, before asking a lot of experienced players, what their 'Big Brother 13' experiences were really like and what happens in their lives after leaving the show.

- The house guests were already inventing conspiracy theories on their first night. Exum said Kalia Booker Lawon companion and part-time model, Dominic Briones Porsche actually believed the daughter of Shelly. Many others, like Schroeder suggested that Dick and Danielle are no longer strangers, but in reality work together closely in order to win again.

- When it's time to get a uniform color for the first Head of Household competition was modified, most of the participants had no inhibitions in front of the camera to change - or the other. Back in the bedroom, Dick had the male guests as changing clothes in a corner, so that the cameras would not capture their genitals.


- During filming, the first director of the competition for the house, were the number of camera operators houseguests hanging from the giant banana behind a one-way mirror talkative as a fan sitting on her couch at home. "Rachel is a tough girl," says a cameraman fell as competitors. The cast could not hear the talk though. The wall is soundproof.

- After the series Julie Chen showed that the first four players expelled partner would receive a gold key and be sure to remove the top 10, a salesman came over the speakers and explained how the change would work in detail. On the question of how the occupation would affect the right of veto, he told them that she learned later.