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19-05-2006, 01:15 PM
Media Guardian (http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1778990,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704)
Ben Dowell
Friday May 19, 2006
Big Brother: Kit Kat 'golden tickets' went on sale last night
The first so-called "golden ticket" offering people the opportunity to enter the Big Brother house appears to have been found - by someone who has put the ticket up for sale on eBay.
The finder of the golden ticket claimed to have found his ticket "10 minutes ago" and has put it up for sale on the internet auction site.
The eBay seller writes: "I don't want to go in the Big Brother house so I am offering this priceless opportunity to other people."
Under the rules anyone finding the ticket may not sell their ticket once they have registered. However, people are allowed to sell them beforehand and so far the organisers of the competition have confirmed that nobody has formally registered a golden ticket via the telephone hotline.
The Kit Kat bars containing 100 golden tickets went on sale in stores at 10.30pm yesterday. One person, having passed security checks, will be selected at random from those who find the tickets in a special live TV broadcast after the competition closes on Friday June 2.
Despite these odds, by midday the bidding for the ticket on eBay had already gone past the £100,000 mark, reflecting the desperate desire of many to enter the house.
In the past two weeks, tabloid newspapers including the Sun and the Daily Star asked their readers to let them buy a golden ticket, thereby giving the papers the opportunity of planting someone in the house.
Earlier this year, open auditions for Big Brother attracted a record 25,000 contestants but producers of the Channel 4 show hope that the golden ticket initiative will attract the interest of an even wider range of people.
Ben Dowell
Friday May 19, 2006
Big Brother: Kit Kat 'golden tickets' went on sale last night
The first so-called "golden ticket" offering people the opportunity to enter the Big Brother house appears to have been found - by someone who has put the ticket up for sale on eBay.
The finder of the golden ticket claimed to have found his ticket "10 minutes ago" and has put it up for sale on the internet auction site.
The eBay seller writes: "I don't want to go in the Big Brother house so I am offering this priceless opportunity to other people."
Under the rules anyone finding the ticket may not sell their ticket once they have registered. However, people are allowed to sell them beforehand and so far the organisers of the competition have confirmed that nobody has formally registered a golden ticket via the telephone hotline.
The Kit Kat bars containing 100 golden tickets went on sale in stores at 10.30pm yesterday. One person, having passed security checks, will be selected at random from those who find the tickets in a special live TV broadcast after the competition closes on Friday June 2.
Despite these odds, by midday the bidding for the ticket on eBay had already gone past the £100,000 mark, reflecting the desperate desire of many to enter the house.
In the past two weeks, tabloid newspapers including the Sun and the Daily Star asked their readers to let them buy a golden ticket, thereby giving the papers the opportunity of planting someone in the house.
Earlier this year, open auditions for Big Brother attracted a record 25,000 contestants but producers of the Channel 4 show hope that the golden ticket initiative will attract the interest of an even wider range of people.