[Calderyon]

Big Brother 17 Rumors: New Players Or Returning Houseguests?

The upcoming Big Brother 17 season has everyone wondering if we’ll see a Big Brother cast of all new players, returning Houseguests, or a mix of the two. With just a week to go until the BB17 cast reveal we’re left with rumors and speculation, but is there any reason to believe them?

As reliable as the tide, the new season brought rumors that veteran players would be returning to the Big Brother house, but when this sort of conversation takes place each season it’s hard to give it much credit without supporting information.

Last year we saw claims that Big Brother was replicating Survivor’s Blood Vs Water which obviously wasn’t true, so it seems silly to again be reading that CBS is copying and pasting its reality show themes by going after a “Second Chance” season for BB17 just like Survivor 2015 S31 is doing right now. Anything is possible, but that seems like a lazy rumor to start.

As Big Brother Access reported, Evel Dick shared news that he heard we’d be seeing “at least some returning players” though he admits he doesn’t know if it’s true or not. ED certainly has plenty of connections and could hear reliable information, but it seems he didn’t feel confident enough to share without noting his own uncertainty of the rumors.

But if you want to go with someone who perhaps has the most Big Brother connections of all then we can turn to Julie Chen. Last season she noted we were unlikely to see a Big Brother All-Stars 2 season anytime soon thanks to the strong ratings of recent all-new casts. Of course she could be trying to throw us for a loop, but I don’t think that’s the case. Although a mixed cast of vets & newbies wouldn’t violate a “no all stars” statement, would it?
The Big Brother 17 cast will be revealed on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 and we’ll have all the bios and details for you ready to go that day. You can watch the reveal on the Live Feeds that day. I’ll also be sitting down with the cast at the same time to get their take with our interview videos arriving soon after. This timeline does raise another question for me: why CBS is rushing the reveal?

In recent past years I’ve met the cast for interviews and then several days later they were revealed to fans. This time they’re revealing the names before the press interviews. CBS could be nervous of another leak like Hollywood Reporter did last year when they foolishly posted the cast hours early. The year before that I was reading online discussions of Elissa being in the cast before I even interviewed her that day. Very frustrating to have happen when I’m out there working hard on these interviews.

While we’ve never violated our embargo it seems other members of the press have more holes in them than the Bomb Squad’s gameplan and it could be enough to force CBS to make sure they’re the first to make the cast known. But could that be because the names on the cast list are just too tempting to reveal in the case of returning players? We’ll know for sure next Tuesday!

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[DrunkerThanMoses]

I think it will be all new people again. Realistically they used all the "all star" players in season 13 and 14, and the last two seasons have been filled with either cowards, racists, bullies or annoying twats that none really deserve to return.

[Pete.]

There are terrible at casting new people

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

There are terrible at casting new people

Pretty sure Robyn Kass casts Canadian version as well and season 2 had some great characters so casting can be done correctly. I think stupid twists have a major part to play as well, I mean look at Big Brother 10, it had a one or two twists and had no opening night twist and that season had some great characters. Just stop with the stupid twists and let the players play the game out with no interference

[Jack_]

Hoping for vets, expecting newbies again

[swinearefine]

whats vets would they even bring back? I really don't have many HGs I'd like to see back aside from people who would never do it like Jun BB4 or Amy BB3. I want all new people, preferably a majority female house like BB6 so another douche squad of men don't come out on top again.

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by swinearefine

whats vets would they even bring back? I really don't have many HGs I'd like to see back aside from people who would never do it like Jun BB4 or Amy BB3. I want all new people, preferably a majority female house like BB6 so another douche squad of men don't come out on top again.

The alpha femme fatales need to emerge

[Pete.]

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Cant believe its 2 weeks tomorrow

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by swinearefine

whats vets would they even bring back? I really don't have many HGs I'd like to see back aside from people who would never do it like Jun BB4 or Amy BB3. I want all new people, preferably a majority female house like BB6 so another douche squad of men don't come out on top again.

mhmm. Grodner picking the returnees would be AWFUL. But then again I'm sure a newbie cast will be awful too. I don't know, BBUS is just a dead franchise tbf.

[reece(:]

I hope the Kalia/Porsche rumour comes to fruition.

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Originally Posted by reece(:

I hope the Kalia/Porsche rumour comes to fruition.

Here for a Libra/Keesha/Memphis/Kevin/Kalia/Porsche alliance

[Braden]

I'm surprised I'm excited for this after the last couple of seasons we've had.

tbf the cast reveal is probably the most exciting part, that's why I tend to end up with high expectations that are completely shat on

[Firewire]

Do they move in on the 16th if that's the reveal date? I hope so because that'll mean we get 100 days

[Macie Lightfoot]

omg no 100 days will awful just cut this **** back down to 70 like when the show was actually good.

[Firewire]

Finale is confirmed for September 23rd so same length as last year

[Macie Lightfoot]

can't wait to see what production pulls out of their ass this time to keep us interested for a full 100 days. Fingers crossed that it tops the Jordeff proposal and the rewind week!

[reece(:]

100 days could only ever be good if a female alliance takes over.

[AarynGriesfan]

It will probably be all newbies again. I would be very surprised if it was an all star season. I guess if there was a couple of returnees and then mostly newbies that wouldn't shock me but I bet it's all newbies again.

[LemonJam]

I'm so unexcited like you know they're just gonna cast copies of previous houseguests and any decent personalities will just be watered down in the DR.

[Jack_]

She's been tweeting stuff like this for a week or so now, as has the official Twitter on and off. I swear if this is all a red herring and meaningless I'mma be pissed

[Raph]

Here for as many superfans as there were in BBCAN3!

[Headie]

I either want all newbies or all-returnees. And I can't see it being the latter as they probably would've announced it a lot earlier and wouldn't have gone through all the casting auditions etc. So all newbies please.

Also it needs to be a diverse cast of ethnicities, sexualities, personalities and ages and not the typical 8 unique girls who get booted first + 7 generic white males + 1 black guy

[Macie Lightfoot]

alol Chenbot in that video <3

anyway what they really should do is put 16 recruits in there, not show them any seasons in sequester, and just let things unfold organically.

[Jack_]

All newbies practically confirmed then?