[lukee]

There’s another Celebrity Big Brother 2014 controversy brewing after it’s been revealed producers have been entering the house.

An unfortunately timed shot from the camera runs on spin-off programme Bit On The Side at the weekend showed a crew member in the house alongside the celebs holding up cue cards.

The female task team member was seen holding up a sign (the contents of which were not shown) to Ollie Locke and Sam Faiers as they took part in Saturday night’s Talent Show.

While it was part of a task it does still go against the fundamental rule of Big Brother that the housemates have no contact with the outside world, including other people.

A spokesperson for Channel 5 commented: “Sometimes the task team enters the Big Brother house but they don’t communicate with housemates.

“Ollie and Sam were taking part in an improvised reality scene and as part of this they were provided with storylines to react to.”

[Withano]

Prove it?

[Withano]

That sounds like something a bored person made up

[Tom4784]

I don't see it as a problem if it's just for a towie styled task. We've had people enter the house for tasks for years now.

[Slevin]

i seen someone standing out there when Sam & Ollie were doing their bit on BOTS as well. it was when someone was doing that bit where they talk behind the mirrors. i think it was that Ian guy. i dont see the fuss though.

[Withano]

Yeah, pisses me off a little actually

[parmnion]

TOLD YOU'SE

[lukee]

made up please

[Pincho Paxton]

That makes the entire Big Brother show completely pointless, and voters should get their money back. The producers must be totally stupid. Now I don't trust anything about the show, even Liz's funny bit has lost its spark. She could have been helped.

[little.lilly]

I see an Ofcom scandal erupting!

[smeagol]

they should never go in there. for any reason.
its all rigged. someone is giving sam her lines. lol all one of them

[Josy]

This was explained in the task description..I honestly don't see the big deal it's not as if they were in there giving them all outside info.

I swear this is the about the 4th thread on this too.

[Slevin]

i agree Josy. theres been worse. like actual contact with the outside world.

[emptynest58]

Originally Posted by Withano

That sounds like something a bored person made up

love it

[Pincho Paxton]

Originally Posted by Josy

This was explained in the task description..I honestly don't see the big deal it's not as if they were in there giving them all outside info.

I swear this is the about the 4th thread on this too.

When was it explained in the task description? Anyway it is a big deal. The whole point of Big Brother is that it is a social experiment. How can you have a social experiment with prompts? If it's fake, it's fake, so it's no longer a reality show, it's a fake show.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Pincho Paxton

When was it explained in the task description?

When Marcus was saying they had no idea what was in the prop bag and would be given prompts on when to remove them.

[Pincho Paxton]

Originally Posted by Josy

When Marcus was saying they had no idea what was in the prop bag and would be given prompts on when to remove them.

Not prompts on what to say? That's OK then...


Why didn't you reply to the opening post then?...

“Ollie and Sam were taking part in an improvised reality scene and as part of this they were provided with storylines to react to.”

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Pincho Paxton

Not prompts on what to say? That's OK then...


Why didn't you reply to the opening post then?...

I did reply to the opening post...saying it's not a big deal, housemates have actually left the show in the past and there wasn't a big massive deal made of it, the task was to show their talent, well Sam and Ollie are famous because of the scripted reality shows they are in, and that's exactly what they done for the task, scripted reality.

Anyway I see you have edited your other post so I will reply to that here too..

In my opinion BB stopped being a social experiment before it even moved from c4 to c5, Way back when the very first series began the social experiment idea of it was what initially got me interested, but these days more and more people want to see all in your face housemates that cause a scene, get involved in arguments every day, it's what they class as entertaining, I still prefer to see how housemates cope being cooped up the house with people they normally wouldnt socialise with, I enjoy seeing their reactions to tasks and situations and so on but it's not a social experiment as any where near as much as an entertainment show these days.

Saying all that though I don't see how a crew member showing prompts for a task stops it from being real, they have people in a lot during tasks these days and no one bothers really, just because the person had crew written on the back of their shirt it's being blown out of proportion IMO.

[Pincho Paxton]

Originally Posted by Josy

I did reply to the opening post...saying it's not a big deal, housemates have actually left the show in the past and there wasn't a big massive deal made of it, the task was to show their talent, well Sam and Ollie are famous because of the scripted reality shows they are in, and that's exactly what they done for the task, scripted reality.

Anyway I see you have edited your other post so I will reply to that here too..

In my opinion BB stopped being a social experiment before it even moved from c4 to c5, Way back when the very first series began the social experiment idea of it was what initially got me interested, but these days more and more people want to see all in your face housemates that cause a scene, get involved in arguments every day, it's what they class as entertaining, I still prefer to see how housemates cope being cooped up the house with people they normally wouldnt socialise with, I enjoy seeing their reactions to tasks and situations and so on but it's not a social experiment as any where near as much as an entertainment show these days.

Saying all that though I don't see how a crew member showing prompts for a task stops it from being real, they have people in a lot during tasks these days and no one bothers really, just because the person had crew written on the back of their shirt it's being blown out of proportion IMO.

The opening post doesn't say prompts, it says storylines. That's what I am referring to. Why didn't you say...

"They weren't storylines they were prompts to open the bag."

Then there would not have been a problem.

Also.. you can't stop Big Brother from being a social experiment. It is one by default, just by being a bunch of people in a house not being given storylines.

[Pete.]

That could have been Luisa

[zakman440]

Originally Posted by Petemitch123

That could have been Luisa

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