well someguy, i wish you well! please let me know what happens, if you get on big brother then you will have to come back on here afterwards and tell me who u were! all the best!

Well I was in a lunchtime session, so I can assure you there were 3 a day.

oh and just for some comfort, i knew someone in a previous series and they went to the phys stage but didnt get told they were in bb till 3 weeks before the show started! they had 5 days to pack and then they went to belgium and went into hiding!

Thanks, to be perfectly honest i wouldn't be bothered if I wasn't asked to go on. I've made it the entire way through the auditions, which has been a great adventure! Getting into the house would be another adventure but we will see.

Yeah, there was a morning session, mid-morning and afternoon, each session about 3 hours each.

i.e. 150 people in the London callback stages, like in BB9. Probably max 50 at the psychologist/psychiatrist, based on previous years (unless they've increased it - I don't know as much about BB11, but they must have had all 81 go through the psych stage, but I can't believe they've done so many this year).

Which series? I've never heard of applicants getting no contact after the psych stage if they've gotten on - though I know some people only got phone interviews as opposed to in person visits (I think they stopped doing the "hanging out with you and your friends" thing as a standard part of the process after BB8?)

I really doubt the reason for you not getting through has anything to do with your disability though; there are lots of factors that impact what they are looking for in the dynamic of the house. Look at how many brilliant housemates appeared to be in the line-up for BB11, but we ended up with some of the seemingly meh ones like Rachel or Jo or Laura.

Hi,

I had a callback not last Wednesday but Wednesday.
My experience is nothing like what anybody else has commented.
I am a bit confused because my "stage" as it were, had nothing to do with group tasks or anything, I was taken to the end of a corridor where I was told I would be interviewed by someone I knew. I took this as a test and was like "well no1 knows I'm here........" but they said it wouldn't be someone I know personally but I would know who he was.
I was then taken into a room and had a filmed interview with three producers, and I was interviewed by Brian Dowling.
I, probably jumped the gun, thought that maybe this meant I would go further??
So have all the psych tests ended?? I dunno I just kind of thought "ooh someone famous", who then afterwards is announced as the presenter I thought maybe it meant I might be somebody they were interested in?
Guess not ! But seems a tad weird I met him?? I guess in a way it's a bit of a relief so now I don't have my heart going everytime the phone rings ey!
xxx

... Right. In the unlikely event that you aren't talking total bollocks, the only perceivable use that situation could entail was possibly you being used as a guinea pig for a job interview for brian.

Everyone else has gone through the same tried and tested methods used in other series. What would be the point in a separate audition process for one person, involving unveiling the presenter before it's publically announced. It just doesn't make sense, so either you're talking complete rubbish or you were used as a test subject for Brian, not the other way around.

Honestly, I swear I am not talking rubbish.
To hear someone else say it, that's probably what it was I probably was a test interview for him. As when I left I did think all he really did was re-ask me things I'd been asked in my final diary room interview in London and things I'd spoken about in the interview, and he had a sheet of paper with yellow bits highlighted so it more than likely is I was used as a dummy for him to test some interview skills on.
I have watched this forum as I didn't want to post anything but now I've read your thread with a few people commenting on similar experiences to you, I've realised I'm pretty much out of the running.
On a lighter note, he was incredibly nice man.
I thought afterwards "I bet he's involved in BBLB" or something similar so imagine my heart when they said he was the presenter, I thought "ooooh I'm picked, I must be" but now thinking logically it's not the case.
At least I can say I had a really good experience with every interview I did and I had fun, it's obviously just not meant to be. Good luck to the rest of you who have done the other parts though as it sounds you are right on the cusp of it !

And when I was waiting at reception at Endemol they were about 6-7 others all told to come at a specific time in the day (different times), so we probably all are going to be used in some sort of "Brian met the auditionees" segment or something!

And from my point of view when I read your initial message I thought I wonder if he is lying, because obviously I had my experience and you had yours which are completely different. So the cookie crumbles in many ways !
Obviously you aren't lying as what benefit would that do for anybody, and I assure you I am telling the truth here.

I'd seriously laugh it it come out you both where lying, good luck to you both. I got to the London callbacks and my group where all idiots like myself. Full of ego maniacs and fame hungry people, suprised I didn't get a callback after that if im brutally honest, I was arrogant, ruthless and arguementative won every arguement I was involved in and told people they where idiots! Wasn't my year! good luck tho guys.

I only posted my message as I was just hoping someone out there may be able to shed some light on something that unfortunately I am letting take over my life as I'm a prat, or at least say they've had the same experience. But like I say this is what happened to me, whether you choose to believe it or not is completely up to yourselves. I haven't once said I believe "my thing means more" or anything like that (quite the contrary), as I'm just trying to piece together a ridiculously confusing puzzle that more than likely means nothing!
Anyway! best of luck to everyone who got to whichever stage / scenario as I'm sure it'll be an amazing ride if you are picked to become a housemate.

If you worried about getting too involved in the whole thing or worried about not getting chosen (few days after my london cb I was pretty much attatched to my phone) Just think about the people that get in the house and some of them who win, they kind of fizzle out within a few months after the end of the show and it's back to normal life. When I think about it I for one wouldn't like to taste fame and then have it taken back from me pretty much instantly!

It is on Channel 5, I'm not sure you'd even get to smell fame, let alone taste it! :p

Do you know what it is, I'm just currently craving some excitement and after everything that's happened during this process (which through the help of TheManWhoLaughs) I have realised I am certainly not going to be called again, I just thought it was a possibility until speaking to someone who has experiences of the whole audition scenario / procedure. And when your life is lacking and something seems like it may happen you can't help but get carried away in your mind.
Oh well, backpacking it is ! (At least that way I can hide from the debt easier rather than if I'm on channel 5 nightly hahahaha)
But a public thank you to TheManWhoLaughs xxx

Thanks, but there's plenty I don't know about the process - I'll probably turn out to be completely wrong now and you'll end getting on the show and winning the whole thing :spin:

haha true true.

Also thinking about it, I actually didn't even consider the debt I've been fleeing from catching up to me if i appear on channel 5 haha!!
I went for a "laugh" and surprisingly just kept getting the next round the one round I thought I'd got through was the one I didn't every single other round I thought I blew it!

I was abit annoyed with the London Cb's judging people from the group stage behind the mirror is a joke without having them have a Producer interview like previous years, I could imagine alot of diamonds got overlooked during this.

I really don't think it's fair that they used you as a test dummy for brian dowlings interview technique if im brutuelly honest!

I'm not going to lie if that does happen I'll be over the moon and I'll certainly buy you a beer !
Also someguy - best of luck it sounds like you're quite close.

joeybruss - I'm actually a bit p'd off about it now I can't lie. So I'm assuming you're callbacks weren't in shepherds bush like mine and all the people who were there? So they actually have got quite a few peoples hopes up that would've met Brian the day I did for absoloutely no reason, because all the people that did would've thought it meant something more than it actually did.
Oh well, no point bothering myself about it to be honest, he was a lovely man and I had a laugh with him so there is a slight silver lining!

I'm not from London and didn't really have a clue where I was, a girl from my audition group (who I think has a STRONG chance of getting in) walked me back to Hammersmith station, our callback was literally about 5minutes walk from Hammersmith's.

I thought the whole process was a joke and very rushed, When I was told to meet someone outside destination X wearing Clothes B I thought It was some sort of MI5 business but when I seen my entire group standing next to two people dressed pretty much like wheres wally I knew it was a joke.

When we went to hand in our bills etc they specificially asked us not to tell eachother our names then one of the runners goes and shouts my name out lmao!!

It's all so silly !
Like you say I went for a laugh, and I was surprised everytime I got through a bit more, and filled in more paperwork etc, and I honestly had the BEST experience in the diary room I had so much fun in there, so I wouldn't be surprised if I am shown on something or other as I made a complete tool of myself. And then to meet Brian and have another laugh I'm quite happy I did meet him, even if it does mean nothing, it is still nice to say I had a laugh with Brian Dowling and spoke about getting drunk with him so all is not lost.

So I don't have bad energy towards the whole thing it's just the fact that they clearly completely used me for some stupid rehearsal for him, and they don't realise (or actually they do) the crap they put on people. One of the guys waiting was talking about how he's probably going to lose his job as he called up at the last minute saying he isn't coming in which they didn't take too kindly to at his workplace. So I effing feel for that guy now, all for them to have someone test out their interview technique. I'm hoping someone else sees this and posts now because it is in a way a sigh of relief ! x

Also, if anyone has any questions about the london CB's im ready to spill all! ask away :)

N. Fairytale, ok i think you're telling the truth!

Lol @ joey saying it was like wheres wally. more like a norwich city wheres wally. (if that doesnt prove my authenticity to you i don't know what will).

The london callbacks were in hammersmith and the psyche tests were in shepherds bush. just in case anyones interested :)

its good we have a few on here who have had some experience with it. I've felt completely isolated and its good to talk to people who have been through the same! if only i could speak to someone else who'd reached the psyches!

Lmao someguy, completely rings a bell to me!! I actually thought to myself "this honestly cant be them" Talk about fame hungry wannabes in my group, I had 3guys from take me out in there!! absolute joke, needless to say It was pretty easy to find there names and send them in to big brother xD. How was your group Someguy (without giving too much away)

my group.

a really posh guy. a guy 75% covered in tattoos, face and all. 4 really hot but really boring girls, one of which was in the final 81 from last year who was picked live outside the house. two buff guys and a quiet black girl. and me.

everyone was RELATIVELY normal if not a bit attention seeking. i was one of the few in the room NOT trying to dominate and be overly loud. it paid off obviously.

If the guy with 75% tatoo's looked pretty much like a cross between Nightcrawler from the Xmen films and a smurf then I was sitting next to him after the Interview stage during my first auditions, seemed like a nice guy.

I had 3 Good looking fame hungry ego monster guys, 1 quiet guy who didn't really say anything at all, Big titted fake welsh girl who didn't want to be stereotyped but had her boobs pushed completely out and would do topless modeling, a gay guy who was squeeled like a little girl, 2 black girls who hated how black girls have been pacieved in the house and both would make really good contestents who would be the only two in my group that I would honestly say should have been chosen over me.

My group was full of arguements from the start, we where argueing before we even got into the room it was getting pretty heated tbh! everyone just down each others necks.

What I don't get is, one of the runners said to me after I said "I best not have traveled all the way to london for nothing" she went "that's not happeneing" then i didn't hear anything back! If there is someone who has taken my roll for my type of character in the house and are more brutal than me then it's going to be amazing!