maybe they were sure of his character whilst the people in the discussion they wanted to see how they will react with other housemates. They said it was a warm up the discussion but it went for ages and they were taking notes. Big brother was making jokes with my friend and laughing.

i don.t think they did anything like boo my friend would last ages in that house. Seems like nice normal people getting through my friend said they were asking about your favorite ex hm's and what character you will be portrayed as

hopefully the auditions have big turnouts this year

hopefully not then my friend has a better chance. If you guys get a call post it here so i can tell my friend. Or i'll post if he gets in

what do the bb crew do during the week between audition venues. You think they go through the auditions from that city

true but once they are travelling they are paying a massive crew and you wouldn.t want em sitting round when your paying em. Like do the producers and crew stay in a hotel for the night in the city where the auditions were.

get someone from the bb crew on here. It can't be that hard to get an insider on here.

true but you think they tape those people in the mock diary room then don.t look at it for a few weeks. Seems a long shot

i heard a rumor some people got a call back? Not from my friend but from another source

In answer to your question "what do they do between dates?" and "when do they watch the tapes"...

"What do they do between dates?"
I think they prepare for the next audition venue, sort out auditionees from the previous venues such as collecting footage (around 300-500 clips of auditionees and only 80 got through to the next stage, getting applications read through, etc.)

"When do they watch the tapes?"
If you watch X Factor then remember the part when the judges have the pictures of the auditionees and they give their feedback on them...well it's most likely similar with Big Brother. There will probs be a number of different groups of producers who will each have a collection of audition footage (maybe 5 producers to a venue). They'll watch the clips and put their feedback on paper as they watch it, then discuss their feedback amongst each other (why they think they'd be a good HM, what they liked/disliked about the person, etc.)
The people with the best feedback will be forwarded on to other producers who will have the final overview on the potentials and once they make their choices, the calls are made to come to the next stage.

when is the next stage?

We don't know.

When auditionees have finished doing their Diary Room interview they are told "we might be in touch".

If they like you, they'll contact you. If they don't, they won't. You won't know for sure when the callbacks are.

Most people pressume it's around March, but they're already halfway through after the DR interview and there is plenty of time for them to do callbacks and the other stages between 9th Feb - 4th June (They did open auditions in less than a month with thousands of people. Having 400 or so people and 5months left gives them loads of time).

I would say at each stage its a wheat and chaff process...

1000 people interview at each venue
100 people from each venue get a call back (10 min interview)
10 people from each venue get to the 'final process'

Thats what I would think...

when they are reviewing the footage do you think they look at both days audition footage like the short interview to get to the questionnaire or just the callback diary room footage?

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i did, filled in 29 pages, page 9 was a drwaing

ooo a drawing of what? (bring on the psychologists)

its said express your feelings.. so...... i cant tell you what i drew incase big brother see this. could of been anything though. the 29 page had topic such as
me
relationships
family
big brother
big brother house
and games and life

Sounds cool :) Wish I got to that stage and filled out the massive form! However I am **** at drawing.. god knows what I would have drawn.

So what stage are you at now? You waiting around for a phone call to head down to London? or?

yes thats the stage i am at, just waiting im so curious, i reckon theres about 700 at my stage left and the videos get divided in to diff groups, im confident ill make stage 6 but no more after that

what audition did you go to?

I went to Manchester on the Saturday. What about you?

Good luck! and if you get on.. well I know you won't post it on here but please come back after you have been on BB11 :)

i am devoted to big brother i will let people no my next stage i went to the wembley arena.it means something to get here thoug, ive even kept my sticker which says my number on haha

looooool. I didn't keep my sticker but they have my info from the 2nd round and the photo of me they took of me.

Did you see any ex housemates?